Google Drive – How to Rotate Images Saved in Google Drive

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On a regular basis I take pictures with my Android phone and upload them to Google drive. Sometimes I take the picture upside down and want to rotate it. In Google Drive how do you do this? I found these instructions but they don't make any sense, maybe I'm in the wrong mode or something but I don't see any "rotate handle".

Out of curriousity I've noticed some programs open images upside down and others do it right side up? For example I've downloaded one of the pictures from Google Drive and when I opened it locally with my computer it was right side up.

UPDATE 2017: it would appear google drive now has this option built in for photos.

Best Answer

There is a native way: access Google Photos.

First you need to enable google drive pictures as shown here. Please once in that page, read below "View & edit photos stored in Google Drive using Google Photos"

Then select the image, and either press shift+r, or in the top right corner choose "more options"> Rotate

Edit: Please note, according to this official help page:

If you edit photos in Google Photos, those changes will not show in Google Drive.

That means you have to manually move the edited photos in google photos to the desired goal location, such as google drive.