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How to Rotate and Flip Photos the Right Way

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Why photos come out sideways

Cameras record orientation in metadata instead of rotating the actual pixels. Viewers that read that flag show the photo correctly; those that ignore it show it sideways. Rotating the image pixels bakes the correct orientation into the file so it displays right everywhere.

Steps

Checking the result

Open the downloaded file in a different viewer than the one you took it with - a browser or a messaging app preview. If it is upright there, it is upright for everyone.

For document pages

If a whole PDF has rotated pages, use Rotate PDF instead - it fixes orientation page by page inside the document.