Flip Image

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Click to upload or drag and drop

Image files only (Max 7MB)

ℹī¸ How it works:
  • Upload your image file
  • Tick horizontal, vertical, or both
  • Download the flipped picture

Flip, Mirror or Reverse a Picture

Two tick boxes, and that is the whole tool. Horizontal Flip â†” mirrors the picture left to right, the way a mirror would — this is how you make a mirror image of a photo. Vertical Flip â†• turns it over top to bottom. Tick either, or both together, and download.

Horizontal and Vertical: What Each One Does

  • Horizontal flip swaps left and right. A person facing left now faces right, and any writing in the picture reads backwards. This is the one people usually mean by "mirror".
  • Vertical flip swaps top and bottom, as though the image were reflected in water. It is the less common of the two and looks distinctly odd on most photographs.
  • Both at once gives you the same result as turning the picture a full half-turn — useful to know if what you actually wanted was to rotate it.

Reversing a Backwards Selfie

This is the most common reason people flip a photo. Your phone's front camera shows you a mirrored preview, because that is what you are used to seeing in a mirror — but many phones save the file the correct way round. The result is a photo that looks subtly wrong to you: your parting is on the wrong side, and any text in the shot is legible when you expected it reversed, or the other way about. A single horizontal flip puts it back to whichever version looks right.

How to Flip a Picture

  1. Click the upload area above or drag and drop your image (up to 7 MB).
  2. Tick Horizontal Flip â†”, Vertical Flip â†•, or both.
  3. Click Download Flipped Image.

When You Might Need This

  • A selfie that came out mirrored, with the parting on the wrong side
  • A photo where a sign or a T-shirt slogan reads backwards
  • Making a symmetrical pattern by mirroring one half of a design
  • Turning a picture round so a subject faces into the page rather than off it
  • Preparing artwork for iron-on transfer, which has to be printed reversed
  • Matching the direction of one photo to another in a layout

Key Features

  • Completely lossless – flipping rearranges existing pixels without re-encoding them
  • Both directions – horizontal, vertical, or both in one go
  • Orientation handled – photos that carry a rotation tag are read the right way up first
  • Nothing resized – the width and height stay exactly as they were
  • Private – files are deleted automatically within one hour, and nothing is watermarked

Supported Formats and Limits

Upload JPG/JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF, BMP or TIFF, up to 7 MB. A transparent background stays transparent.

Frequently Asked Questions

Flipping produces a mirror image — left and right swap over, so writing reads backwards. Rotating turns the picture around without mirroring it, so text stays readable. A quick way to tell which you need: if the problem is that the photo is lying on its side, you want rotate. If the problem is that everything is the wrong way round, you want flip.

Because that is exactly what a horizontal flip does — it mirrors everything, lettering included. There is no way to flip a picture while leaving the writing the right way round, since the tool has no way to know which parts are text. If you only wanted the photo turned, rotate it instead of flipping it.

Upload it and tick Horizontal Flip â†” on its own. That is the mirror everyone means — left and right exchange places, as though you were looking at the picture in a bathroom mirror. Leave the vertical box unticked, or you will get a half-turn instead.

No. A flip simply rearranges the pixels that are already there — nothing is recalculated, blended or approximated, so the result is pixel-for-pixel identical to the original, just reversed. You can flip a picture back and forth as often as you like without any degradation.

Tick both boxes. Flipping horizontally and vertically together produces the same image as a half-turn, which is what "upside down" usually means. Ticking only the vertical box gives you something different — a top-to-bottom reflection, which looks like the picture reflected in water rather than simply inverted.

Yes — one horizontal flip swaps it to the other version. Which one is "correct" is genuinely a matter of taste: the mirrored view is the face you see every day, while the unmirrored one is how everybody else sees you. Neither is wrong, so flip it and keep whichever looks more like you.

No to both. The file comes back in the format you uploaded, and the width and height are unchanged — a flip only reverses the arrangement of the pixels. To change the dimensions use Resize Image, or Compress Image to reduce the file size.

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