Image Flipper & Mirror

Flipping an image means mirroring it across an axis — horizontally, so left and right swap places, or vertically, so top and bottom swap places — and it's a different operation from rotating, which turns the whole image around a center point without mirroring anything. This image flipper handles both: flip horizontal, flip vertical, rotate 90 degrees clockwise or counter-clockwise, rotate a full 180 degrees, and any combination of those in sequence, all previewed live before you download.

It's the tool for the handful of situations a resize or crop tool doesn't cover: fixing a selfie that looks mirrored compared to how you actually look in a normal mirror, correcting a sideways photo that a phone or scanner saved in the wrong orientation, or building a genuine mirror-image version of a logo or graphic for a design layout. Every adjustment happens on an HTML canvas in your browser, so nothing is uploaded and the preview updates instantly as you click.

The interface tracks your combined transform state — rotation angle plus horizontal and vertical flip — as you stack adjustments, and a single reset button clears everything back to the original orientation if you want to start over. The final result downloads as a PNG file once you're happy with it.

A horizontal flip mirrors an image left-to-right, as if you were looking at it in a mirror held up to one side — text becomes reversed and reads backward, and anything asymmetrical (a face, a logo with a directional arrow) appears reversed. A vertical flip mirrors top-to-bottom instead, turning the image upside down while also reversing which side is which vertically, distinct from simply rotating it 180 degrees.

That distinction matters because a 180-degree rotation and a combined horizontal-plus-vertical flip can look identical for a symmetric image but are not the same transform — a rotated 180 image keeps left and right in their original relative positions just flipped top-to-bottom and reversed in direction, while flipping both axes produces the same visual result through mirroring instead. For most everyday fixes you only need one flip axis at a time, and this tool keeps horizontal flip, vertical flip, and rotation as separate, combinable buttons rather than forcing you to reason about the math.

Phone front-cameras display a live mirrored preview while you're framing the shot, which is why your selfie on-screen looks like your reflection in a mirror rather than how other people actually see your face day to day. Some phones save the photo mirrored to match that preview, while others save it unmirrored — so the same phone can produce a selfie that either matches or doesn't match what you saw while taking it, depending on the camera app and settings.

If a saved selfie looks backward compared to a normal mirror — a mole or part on the wrong side, watch on the wrong wrist — a single horizontal flip corrects it. This is a purely cosmetic fix with no effect on image quality, since flipping doesn't touch pixel color values, only their left-right position.

Photos taken with a phone held sideways, or scanned documents fed into a scanner the wrong way, often come out rotated 90 degrees rather than mirrored — the fix there is Rotate 90° CW or Rotate 90° CCW, not a flip, since nothing needs to be mirrored, just turned. An upside-down photo needs Rotate 180° instead, which turns it a half-turn without mirroring either axis.

Some cases need both: a scanned page that's both upside-down and was scanned with the platen orientation reversed might need a 180-degree rotation followed by a horizontal flip to read correctly. The status line beneath the preview shows the current rotation angle and flip state as you stack adjustments, so you can track exactly what's been applied before downloading.

• Selfie looks mirrored compared to a normal mirror: use Flip Horizontal.
• Photo or scan is upside down: use Rotate 180°.
• Photo was taken with the camera turned sideways: use Rotate 90° CW or CCW depending on which way it's leaning.
• Scanned document is both upside-down and mirrored: combine Rotate 180° with a flip.

Flipping and rotating are geometric transforms — they reposition existing pixels without recalculating or blending their color values, unlike resizing, which has to interpolate new pixel values when dimensions change. That makes flip and rotate operations lossless in the sense that no visual detail is lost or blurred as a direct result of the transform itself.

The one place quality can be affected is in the final export step, since every download from this tool is re-encoded as a PNG regardless of the transform applied — see the note on output format below for what that means for file size.

Regardless of whether you upload a JPG, PNG, or WebP file, the download button always saves the flipped or rotated result as a PNG, named flipped.png. PNG is a lossless format, so no compression artifacts are introduced by the export itself, but it also means a photo uploaded as a compact JPEG will typically download as a noticeably larger PNG file, since PNG doesn't use JPEG's lossy compression.

If file size matters for where the flipped image is going — a website, an email attachment, a form upload with a size limit — run the downloaded PNG through a separate image compressor or converter afterward to bring it back down or convert it to a different format.