How to Flip or Mirror a Photo (and Fix Reversed Selfies)

Front cameras often save a mirrored selfie; some scans arrive upside down; text on a T-shirt looks backwards. A flip fixes these in seconds.

Quick answer

Choose a picture, press flip horizontal to mirror it left to right, flip vertical to turn it upside down, or rotate by 90 degrees. Download as PNG or JPG at the original size.

Which flip do you need?

• Horizontal flip: mirror image. Use it to correct a selfie whose text is backwards, or to change the direction a subject faces in a design.
• Vertical flip: top becomes bottom. Useful for a scan placed the wrong way on the glass.
• Rotate 90°: turns a sideways photo upright.

Steps

1. Open the tool and pick a picture.
2. Apply the flip or rotation; the preview updates.
3. Choose PNG or JPG and download.

Things to remember

• Flipping a photo of a person changes their face's asymmetry, so a mirrored portrait can look "off" to people who know them.
• Do not flip a document or a sign unless you want the text reversed.
• Mirror a photo for a transfer print, because the print will reverse it again.

Tips

• For crops and straightening by small angles use the rotate and crop tools.
• JPG is smaller; PNG preserves sharp edges and transparency.
• Keep the original: flipping and re-saving a JPG slightly reduces quality.

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