1Upload the TIFF images that came out the wrong way round.
2Pick a quarter turn or a half turn, or type an arbitrary angle and choose a colour for the corners it will expose.
3Apply the rotation; the pixels and the orientation flag are reconciled so every viewer agrees on which way is up.
4Download the rotated TIFF file.
Rotate TIFF FAQ
Does the format decide whether rotation is lossless?
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It does. TIFF is the archival container: lossless LZW or DEFLATE, 16-bit-per-channel depth, CMYK, and multiple pages in a single file. That property is exactly what determines whether a quarter turn is free or costs a re-encode.
Anything specific to TIFF I should know?
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Yes — a single TIFF can hold several pages and 16-bit-per-channel data, so a tool has to decide whether to act on page one or on all of them. It is the kind of thing that explains why a file looks right in one application and wrong in another.
Why does my file look correct on my phone but sideways elsewhere?
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Because the orientation is stored as an EXIF flag rather than in the pixels, and not every viewer honours it. Rotating here normalises the two — the pixels and the flag end up agreeing, so the file looks the same everywhere.
Can I rotate a whole batch in one go?
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Yes. The same rotation is applied across every file you upload, which is the practical fix for a folder of scans or camera output that all came in the wrong way round.
Can I run Rotate TIFF on several TIFF images at once?
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Yes — upload the set and they process in parallel under one set of settings. Lossless files are larger, so a big batch is bound by your upload speed rather than by the processing itself.
Does the alpha channel survive?
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Yes. PNG and TIFF carry a full 8-bit alpha channel and it is preserved end to end. It is only flattened if you deliberately target a format that has no alpha, in which case transparent pixels are composited onto white.
Does Rotate TIFF cost anything?
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No. Rotate TIFF runs free without an account and adds no watermark. Files are removed from the workers shortly after you download, and nothing about the image is retained.
Is there a file size limit on Rotate TIFF?
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Yes: free accounts process images up to 5 MB each; lossless sources hit that ceiling sooner than photographs do, because nothing has been thrown away yet. If you are over it, converting to PNG first is often enough on its own — a BMP is routinely ten to twenty times the size of the identical image as PNG.
Why does a PNG site host Rotate TIFF?
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PNG.to is built around the format you use when you cannot afford to lose a pixel: lossless, alpha-capable, and the correct answer for screenshots, logos, line art and anything with hard edges. Image work is rarely one step: people arrive to change a format and leave needing the picture a different size, a different weight or a different shape. Running Rotate TIFF on the same upload pipeline, the same size caps and the same account is the whole reason it is here rather than on a fourth tab.
What should I do with the result once Rotate TIFF is finished?
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The converter on this site moves images to and from PNG, JPG, WebP, GIF and SVG — which is the step where the decision about transparency actually gets made. That is the step most people actually came for, and doing it after Rotate TIFF rather than before it means the conversion works from the file you finally settled on.
Is Rotate TIFF here the same tool the sibling sites run?
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The engines are shared — the same libraries, the same workers, the same limits. What differs is the advice, and the advice here starts from one fact about the format this site is named after: there is no quality slider to get wrong — a PNG round-trips bit-exactly, so the only thing edits cost you is file size. A PNG site is opinionated about where PNG is the right destination and where it is not, and that judgement is worth more than the button.
Do I need an account, and does anything get kept?
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No account, and nothing is kept: uploads are deleted from the workers shortly after the job finishes, and nothing you process is indexed, listed or used for anything else. Free accounts exist for history and batch size, not for access.
