Rotate Photo, Rotate Picture, Rotate Image

How to use Piccyfix to Rotate your photo, image or picture, FREE online

Starting from the Home Page, choose your photo, then choose either Rotate/Resize Only  or  Run All wizard Steps, and the first step after uploading will allow you to do the rotation.

If there are any other wizard steps left after Rotate that you want to skip, just choose the 'Original' picture on that step. You will end up on the  Generate  page which generates your final rotated image.

Rotation Guidelines

If while taking the photo you turned the camera to the 'right' to fit the person in, then the picture will have the persons head at the left of the picture, and their feet at the bottom. This is fixed by rotating the image once to the right to make it the right way up again. This is also known as rotating it 90 degrees clockwise (or 270 degrees anti-clockwise).

The reverse is true if your turned the camera to the 'left' when taking the photo. Their head will be at the right of the picture, which is fixed by rotating the photo once to left, or 90 degrees anti-clockwise (or 270 degrees clockwise).

If you accidentally took the picture while holding the camera upside down (?!), the photo will also be the wrong way around, which is fixed by rotating the photo twice (180 degrees) to make it the right way up again.

All of the above explanation is just background information which you won't really need. When you use Piccyfix, the wizard will rotate the images all ways, then you just pick the photo that looks correct. Easy as that!.

Rotation Explanation

If you hold a digital camera, webcam or mobile/cell phone with built-in camera in the 'normal' way - to take a picture, it usually takes a 'landscape' picture, which simply means that the width of the photo is longer than the height. This is great for taking pictures of scenery, and the image will always appear the right way up, and won't need rotating. Unless you took the photo holding the camera upside down of course. (!?). But hey, we're not all professional photographers - mistakes happen :-)

But if you want to take a full length picture of a person, or a tall object like a building, you will usually need to hold the camera 'on-end' so that you can get the person in the frame without cutting off their head or feet. This is called a 'portrait' picture.

When you take a portrait picture, it will come out of your camera in the same way.. the image will appear on it's side. You can use Piccyfix to rotate the image so it looks correct again.

If you only want to print out the photo, it doesn't usually matter if the photo is 'on-end', since it should print out correctly, then you can just turn it on its side and put it into your photo album or photo frame. You only need to rotate it if you want to see it correctly on the screen, and possibly upload it to myspace, flickr, your blog or some other community site.