How to flip an image
- Choose a photo.
- Press Flip horizontal to mirror it left to right, or Flip vertical to mirror it top to bottom. Press again to undo the flip.
- Rotate it as well if you need to, then press Download.
Horizontal or vertical?
- Horizontal (the common one): fixes mirrored selfies and backwards text, or makes a person face the other way in a design.
- Vertical: water reflections, upside-down scans and pattern effects.
- Both together give the same picture as rotating by 180°.
Example
A 1280 × 720 screenshot flipped horizontally is still 1280 × 720: the pixel in the top-left corner moves to the top-right corner, and the picture's size and sharpness stay the same. The flip buttons always act on the picture as you see it, even after you have rotated it.
Tips
- Check faces and text in the preview before saving: a horizontal flip is easy to miss on symmetrical pictures.
- To turn a sideways photo instead, use Rotate image; for cropping and text too, the Photo editor.
HEIC photos are decoded with libheif and libde265 (libheif-js 1.23.2, licensed under the LGPL-3.0), loaded unmodified as a separate file. Licence and source code.