Rotate / Flip: turn or mirror your images

Rotate every image in your batch by a set angle, or flip them horizontally or vertically. Quick and predictable — no fuss.

Rotate / Flip is exactly what it sounds like. It turns your images by a set angle (90°, 180°, 270°, or any custom angle) and/or flips them horizontally, vertically, or both at once.

Why this step matters

A few reasons to add it to a pipeline:

  • All your images came in sideways because of how the source saved them. Rotate them all at once.
  • You have a batch of mirror-image variants (right-facing, left-facing) but only want one direction. Flip the wrong-direction ones.
  • You're prepping designs that need to face a specific way for upload to a print-on-demand site that expects a certain orientation.

How to use it

  1. Add Rotate / Flip to your pipeline.
  2. Pick a rotation: 0° (no change), 90°, 180°, 270°, or Custom (any angle).
  3. (Optional) Pick a flip: None, H (horizontal), V (vertical), or Both.

That's it. The same rotation and flip get applied to every image in your batch.

The settings

SettingWhat it does
RotatePick a preset angle: 0° · 90° · 180° · 270° · Custom. Picks one of the four common rotations or unlocks the Angle field for any value.
Angle (0–359)Only used when Rotate is set to Custom. Type any whole-number angle from 0 to 359.
FlipPick how to mirror the image: None · H (horizontal — left and right swap) · V (vertical — top and bottom swap) · Both (both at once).

Tips

  • 90° rotations are clean and lossless. The image turns and keeps every pixel exactly where it should be.
  • Custom angles between 0 and 90 always crop the corners. Rotating a rectangle by 30° leaves diagonal slices of empty space at the corners. ReadyPixl fills these with transparent pixels — pair with Trim later in your pipeline if you want a tight result.
  • Flip is faster than rotate. Both happen in the blink of an eye, but flip doesn't have to recalculate any pixels.
  • Rotate + flip combined works fine — first the rotation runs, then the flip.

Things Rotate / Flip doesn't do

  • It doesn't auto-correct orientation. It applies whatever you set to every image in the batch. If your batch has a mix of correct and incorrect orientations, this won't fix that — separate them into two batches.
  • It doesn't crop. Custom-angle rotations leave transparent corners. Add a Trim step after if you want to crop those out.
  • It doesn't perspective-correct or straighten. It's a flat rotation, not a perspective fix.
  • It doesn't read image metadata. If the source has an "orientation" flag baked in, ReadyPixl ignores it and rotates only by what you set.

What to read next

  • Trim — pair after a custom-angle rotation to remove the transparent corners
  • Image Adjustment — for fixing color or brightness issues on the same batch
  • Per-tool quirks — orientation gotchas and what to do