Adjust Image Hue

Hue rotation shifts every colour in your image around the colour wheel by a specified number of degrees. A 0 degree rotation leaves the image unchanged. A 180 degree rotation maps every colour to its exact opposite, turning reds into cyans, blues into oranges, and greens into magentas. Upload a photo, drag the slider, and the preview updates instantly.

The colour wheel arranges all hues in a circle from 0 to 360 degrees. Red sits at 0, yellow at 60, green at 120, cyan at 180, blue at 240, and magenta at 300. When you rotate by a given number of degrees, each pixel's hue moves that many steps around the wheel while its brightness and saturation stay the same.

Hue rotation is a popular technique for colour grading and artistic effects. Photographers use subtle shifts (10 to 30 degrees) to create warm or cool colour casts across an entire image. Designers use larger shifts to create colour variations of the same graphic, for example generating a blue version and a green version of the same illustration without redrawing anything.

Other creative uses include creating surreal or psychedelic art, making infrared-style landscapes (shift greens towards reds or magentas), producing pop art colour variations, and generating alternative colourways for branding or product mockups.

A colour filter overlays a single tint across the image, pushing everything towards one colour. Hue rotation preserves the relationships between colours and simply moves them all around the wheel together. The image retains its full range of distinct colours, they are just different colours. This makes hue rotation useful for recolouring while keeping visual variety.

For example, applying a blue filter to a sunset makes everything blue-tinted. Rotating the hue by 180 degrees turns the warm oranges and reds into cool cyans and teals, but the sky, clouds, and landscape each remain distinct from one another.