# rotate an image counter-clockwise using the PIL image library free from: http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/index.htm make sure to install PIL after your regular python package is installed import Image open an image file (.bmp,.jpg,.png,.gif) change image filename to something you have in the working folder im1 = Image.open("Donald.gif") rotate 60 degrees counter-clockwise im2 = im1.rotate(60) brings up the modified image in a viewer, simply saves the image as a bitmap to a temporary file and calls viewer associated with .bmp make certain you have an image viewer associated with this file type im2.show() save the rotated image as d.gif to the working folder you can save in several different image formats, try d.jpg or d.png PIL is pretty powerful stuff and figures it out from the extension im2.save("d.gif")</pre>