Rotate and flip: straighten a tilted photo in one click

2026-10-25

Rotating the image

Open "Image → Rotate". The window offers two settings with a live preview:

Right angle: pick 90, 180 or 270 degrees to switch between portrait and landscape or turn it upside down;
Rotate: drag the slider or enter any angle from 0 to 360, measured clockwise. To straighten a photo 2 degrees to the left, enter 358.

Shortcut L rotates 90 degrees to the left. Rotation applies to the selected layer; with a single image that is the whole picture.

After a small rotation the corners show empty space; trim it off with the Crop tool.

"Image → Flip → Horizontal" mirrors left and right, which fixes back-to-front text in selfies; "Image → Flip → Vertical" turns it upside down.

If the canvas has several layers (say a background and a sticker) and you only want to turn one:

Click that layer in the Layers panel on the right;
Use "Image → Rotate", or type an angle into Rotate in the Layer details panel and press Enter.

Only that layer turns; the others stay as they are. The small circular arrow next to Rotate resets it to 0.