Are you wondering how to rotate or flip pictures / photographs? Or are you looking for help with turning a picture from left to right or right to left without Photoshop?

Well one of Open Office’s features allows you to do just that!

I am sure that there are many other ways that I don’t know about and if after following my steps, you know another way, can you leave in the comment box below details where I and others can see another way of rotating photos or pictures with Open Office?

UPDATE: I’ve placed instructions on how to flip pictures / photos with Open Office onto a different page. Click here for information on how to flip pictures / photos using Open Office

Let’s begin…

Okay, these are my steps for rotating a picture or photo with Open Office

If you do not have Open Office, you can download and install it from here

STEP 1 CREATING A WORKING AREA FOR YOUR PICTURE / PHOTO

Create a new working area from the Open Office welcome screen by clicking then opening Drawing

STEP 2 INSERTING PICTURE / PHOTO THAT YOU WISH TO ROTATE

On the Drawing Menu bar select Insert

Scroll down to Picture then scroll across to From File and double click

Locate the picture / photo you wish to rotate

When you have found the picture / photo , select it by clicking on it

You can insert it onto your blank Open Office page either by double clicking on the picture or by clicking on the Open button

Now, look at your Open Office working area

You'll see that your selected picture is now inserted, surrounded by little green squares.  These green squares are called handles

At the bottom of your screen, locate the rotate icon  from the Drawing menu

NOTE:  If you cannot see the rotate icon, it may because it is not enabled (showing)  To enable the Open Office Drawing menu, click on View, scroll down to Toolbars and then scroll across to Drawing  Now look at the bottom of your screen, you should now see the Drawing menu

STEP 3 ROTATING YOUR PICTURE / PHOTO

Once you have clicked the rotate icon, the handles in your picture turns from green to red

Select a red handle

and drag it in the direction you wish to rotate your picture

Your mouse pointer changes to this:

When you let go, your picture / photo will have rotated

STEP 4 CHANGING ROTATED POSITION

Keep selecting a red handle and dragging the picture / photo into your desired position again and again until you are satisfied with your picture / photo position

Clicking the slideshow above, you can see how I rotated my picture back to its original position by selecting a red button and dragging again until she was back in an upright position

STEP 5 Finished

Once I click the mouse off the picture, the handles turn back green

I’m happy

She’s happy

When you have time, experiment yourself with these steps and see

If you wish, let me and others know below how you got on rotating your pictures / photos using these steps

PS Don’t forget to Save your work

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