Will rotating make the photo blurry or lower its quality?
Right-angle rotations like left/right 90° or 180° simply rearrange the pixels along a grid with no interpolation required, so they don't introduce blur on their own — only a small, normal loss from re-encoding to JPG, similar to compression. “Fine-angle adjustment,” since it's not a multiple of 90°, requires interpolating pixels, and the larger the angle, the more noticeable the loss in detail — it's best used only for small corrections like leveling a horizon (within about ±10°); if a photo is tilted at a much larger angle, it's better to retake it.
Why does a photo look right-side up in my phone's gallery, but show up sideways when opened on a computer or in a different app?
That's because phones usually don't actually rotate the pixels when you take a photo — instead, they record the shooting orientation as a tag called EXIF Orientation, which photo viewers are supposed to read and use to auto-correct the display. Different software and systems support this tag to varying degrees, so apps that don't support it will show the photo tilted. This tool reads images using the browser's built-in decoding capability, which automatically corrects the orientation based on the EXIF tag before displaying or processing it — and the exported result has the pixels themselves physically rearranged, no longer relying on the EXIF tag, so it looks correct in any software.
Is rotating/flipping done on my computer or phone, or does it get uploaded to a server?
It's done entirely in your current device's browser, using the browser's built-in Canvas drawing capability to generate the rotated or flipped image directly — the original is never uploaded to any server.
When batch-processing, will every image use the same rotation angle and flip settings?
Yes — in batch mode, every image uses the same rotation angle, fine-tune angle, and flip settings, which is ideal for straightening a whole batch of photos that share the same orientation issue at once (for example, a set of photos from the same shoot that all came out sideways). If different images need different angles, it's best to process them in separate batches, or finish one batch before adjusting the settings for the next.
Will the width and height change after rotating? Will any content get cropped?
Rotating left/right 90° swaps the width and height (landscape becomes portrait), while rotating 180° keeps them the same. When fine-angle adjustment is used, the canvas automatically expands as needed to fully contain the tilted result — the extra blank space around the edges is filled white for JPG or kept transparent for PNG, so no original content is ever cropped. If you'd rather not have that blank border, use the Crop Image tool afterward to trim it off.
Will the processed image keep its EXIF capture data and PNG transparency?
Rotating/flipping essentially redraws and re-encodes the image: PNG's transparency channel is preserved, but if the original has transparent areas and is detected as needing JPG encoding, those areas will be filled with a white background. The original's EXIF capture parameters, location, and other metadata are not preserved after re-encoding — if you need to view or remove EXIF data specifically, use the “EXIF Viewer/Remover” tool.