How do I straighten a crooked photo?

Rotate it by a small angle until the horizon or edges are level. This tool auto-fills the frame as you rotate so you don't get blank corners, and it works in your browser without uploading — handy for photos scanned slightly askew.

Why do my scanned photos come out tilted?

Photos placed on a flatbed scanner rarely line up perfectly with the edge, so scans come out a degree or two off. A fine rotation of 1-3 degrees usually straightens them; this tool lets you nudge in half-degree steps.

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Straighten Photo

Fix a tilted or crooked photo — rotate by a fine angle and the frame auto-fills so there are no blank corners. Right in your browser, never uploaded.

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Getting it level

A photo looks "off" when the horizon, a wall edge, or a doorway isn't level — even a degree or two is noticeable. Straightening rotates the image to line those up. The trade-off is that rotating leaves blank triangles at the corners, so this tool zooms in just enough to fill them, cropping a sliver of the edges.

Scanned old photos are the most common case: laid on a flatbed slightly askew, they come out a couple degrees tilted. Straighten first, then restore.

Scanned an old photo?

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