Flip an image
Mirror a picture left to right or top to bottom.
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A horizontal flip swaps left and right, like looking at the picture in a mirror; a vertical flip swaps top and bottom. The two can be combined, and both can be combined with a quarter-turn rotation in the same editor. Flips are applied first and rotation after, which is worth knowing when you use both.
The common reason to flip is a selfie: many front cameras save the mirrored view you saw on screen, so text on clothing or signs reads backwards. A horizontal flip puts it right. Flipping also helps with slides or negatives that were scanned from the wrong side, and with design work where a subject should face into the page instead of out of it.
A flip moves pixels without changing them, so nothing is lost from the frame and the dimensions stay the same. Keep in mind that flipping reverses everything, including any writing, logos and the direction of clocks or traffic in the picture. The setting applies to all images in the batch. Your pictures reach our own servers over an encrypted connection, are flipped there, and are deleted within one hour.
Why selfies come out mirrored
While you frame a selfie, the phone shows you a mirror image, because that is what people expect from a screen facing them: move left, and the picture moves left. The question is what gets saved. Some phones store the true view, the way another person would see you. Others store the mirrored preview, and many let you choose in the camera settings. If the lettering on your shirt reads backwards, your phone saved the mirror, and one horizontal flip corrects it.
People are used to their own reflection, so the corrected photo can look slightly odd to you and perfectly normal to everyone else. Faces are not symmetrical, and the version of yours that you know best is the mirrored one.
Jobs that need a reversed picture
Some print processes work face down, and for those the artwork has to be mirrored first. Iron-on transfer paper for light fabrics is the usual example: the sheet is pressed onto the shirt printed side down, so the design must go into the printer reversed or the text will be back to front. The same applies to stickers that are applied to the inside of a window and read from the outside, to rubber stamps, and to engraving and embossing plates.
Check the instructions that come with the material. Transfer paper for dark fabrics is normally printed the right way round, because it is applied face up.
A flip is not a half turn
It is easy to confuse a vertical flip with turning a picture upside down, and the results differ. Rotate a page of text by 180 degrees and it is upside down but still readable once you turn your head. Flip it vertically and every letter is also mirrored. A half turn equals a horizontal flip and a vertical flip together. So a slide scanned upside down needs a rotation, while a negative scanned from the wrong side needs a horizontal flip. The preview shows the result at once, and any writing in the frame is the quickest test.
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between flipping and rotating?
A flip mirrors the picture, so text reads backwards. A rotation turns it and text stays readable.
How do I fix a mirrored selfie?
Use the horizontal flip. Text and logos will read the right way round again.
Does flipping change the image size?
No. Width, height and the visible content stay the same; only the direction changes.
Can I flip and rotate together?
Yes. Both are in the same panel; the flip is applied before the rotation.
Is the picture compressed again when I flip it?
Yes, it is saved again in its own format at a high quality. For PNG that is lossless. For JPEG the change is too small to see.
Can I flip only some of the images in a batch?
Yes. Select an image, switch on Only this image and flip it. The other pictures keep the batch settings.