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Flip Image

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How to use Flip Image

What the tool does, how to run it, and what to expect from the result.

How to flip an image horizontally or vertically

The tool draws your image onto an HTML canvas with a negative scale on one or both axes, which mirrors it, then exports the canvas as a PNG. Because the pixels are moved rather than interpolated, the result is exact.

Horizontal is the flip you almost always want: it corrects selfie-camera mirroring and reverses the direction a subject is facing. Vertical is rarer and mostly useful for reflections and for correcting a scan that came in upside down along one axis.

  • Choose an image with the file picker.
  • Click Flip horizontal to mirror left and right, or Flip vertical to mirror top and bottom.
  • Click both if you want a 180 degree turn.
  • Check any text or logos in the preview, which will now read backwards.
  • Click Download PNG to save the flipped image.
Tips

Getting a better result out of Flip Image

Specific settings and thresholds, not general advice.

  • Flipping is a mirror, not a rotation. A horizontal flip reverses left and right, which is what makes selfie-camera photos read correctly, and it will also reverse any text, logo, or number in the frame.
  • The two toggles combine. Turning on both horizontal and vertical gives you a 180 degree rotation, which is a genuinely useful shortcut and the only rotation this tool can do.
  • The flip happens on the decoded pixels via a canvas transform, so the result is exact: no resampling, no interpolation, no softening. Every pixel lands in a mirrored position, unchanged.
  • Front-camera photos are often already mirrored by the phone, which is why your face looks subtly wrong in them. One horizontal flip puts it back the way other people see you, and it is the single most common reason to open this tool.
  • The export is a PNG. If the source was a JPEG, expect the file to grow, sometimes by three to five times, because PNG is lossless.
Limits

What Flip Image does not do

The honest boundary, so you do not lose time finding it yourself.

  • Two axes only. There is no free-angle rotation and no arbitrary transform matrix.
  • PNG output only, and the download is named flip-image.png rather than after your original file.
  • One image per run, with no batch mode.
  • The canvas re-encode drops EXIF, GPS, and ICC profile data from the output.
At a glance

Who Flip Image is for

A quick way to understand who this helps, what it solves, and where it connects next.

Best fit

Anyone who needs a quick image edit without installing photo software.

Ideal for

Fast, private single-image edits right in the browser.

FAQ

Common questions

Short answers for the questions people usually have before trying a utility like this.

Can I flip horizontally and vertically at once?

Yes. Both toggles can be on at the same time, and the combination is exactly equivalent to rotating the image 180 degrees.

Does flipping lose any quality?

The pixels themselves are moved, not resampled, so the mirrored image is pixel-exact with the source. The output is a lossless PNG, so nothing degrades in the export either. What you lose is metadata, not detail.

Why does the text in my image read backwards now?

Because a horizontal flip mirrors everything in the frame, including type and logos. That is the correct behaviour of a mirror. If you only wanted to un-mirror a subject, there is no way to protect the text from the same transform.

Is this the tool for rotating a sideways photo?

No. Use the rotate tool for that, which turns the image in 90 degree steps. A flip mirrors; it does not turn.

Does the image get uploaded?

No. It is drawn to a canvas in your browser, transformed there, and exported as a PNG from your own tab.

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