What's the difference between flipping and rotating?

Flipping reflects the image across an axis like a mirror, so text comes out readable-but-backwards; rotating turns it around its center, so 180° leaves text upside-down but still reading left-to-right. A vertical flip is not the same as a 180° rotation — the flip mirrors top-to-bottom, the rotation spins the whole frame.

Does flipping reduce image quality?

No. A flip relocates each pixel to its mirror position by scaling the canvas axis by -1, inventing no new colors and resampling nothing, so it's effectively lossless. The output keeps the exact same width and height as the input — only the pixel arrangement changes.

What file format is the flipped image saved as?

Always a PNG, even if you uploaded a JPG, with a name like yourfile-flipped-horizontal.png or -flipped-vertical.png. PNG is lossless so nothing degrades; if you specifically need a JPG for size, run the result through an image converter afterward.

How do I fix a selfie that looks mirror-reversed?

Use a horizontal flip. Front cameras usually show you mirrored compared to how others see you, so text on your shirt reads backwards and your hair part looks swapped; flipping left-to-right restores the true orientation.

Can I flip horizontally and vertically at the same time?

You pick one axis per run, but you can run it twice — flip horizontally, then flip that result vertically. Flipping across both axes is mathematically identical to rotating the image 180°.

Image Flip

Flip an image horizontally or vertically.

Choose an image

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What is Image Flip?

Image Flip mirrors a photo or graphic left-to-right or top-to-bottom — a different operation from rotating, even though the two get confused often. Rotating turns an image around its center; flipping reflects it across an axis, like a mirror. Common uses: correcting a front-camera selfie that looks mirror-reversed from how others actually see you, flipping a game sprite to face the other direction, or mirroring a logo so it faces into a page layout instead of off the edge.

Key features

Horizontal flip: left-right mirror
Vertical flip: upside-down mirror
A reflection across an axis, not a rotation around a point
Common for selfie correction, sprite direction, and logo mirroring

How to flip an image (and how it's different from rotating)

The Image Flip tool mirrors a photo or graphic left-to-right or top-to-bottom, entirely in your browser. Pick a file, choose an axis, and you get the mirrored version back as a PNG — the original and the result sit side by side so you can confirm the direction before downloading.

Steps

Choose an image. JPG, PNG, WebP — anything the browser can decode.
Pick horizontal or vertical flip. Horizontal is the default and the one most people want.
Download the result (saved as <name>-flipped-horizontal.png or -flipped-vertical.png).

Flip vs. rotate — not the same operation

This is the confusion that sends people to the wrong tool. Rotating turns an image around its center point, like spinning a photo on a table. Flipping reflects it across an axis, like holding it up to a mirror — left and right (or top and bottom) trade places, but nothing turns. For a symmetric image a 180° rotation and a double flip can look identical, but for anything with readable text or an asymmetric subject the results diverge sharply: rotate a page of text 180° and it's upside-down but still reads left-to-right; flip it horizontally and it stays upright but reads backwards, like text in a mirror.

Horizontal flip mirrors across the vertical center line (left ↔ right). Vertical flip mirrors across the horizontal center line (top ↔ bottom) — that's an upside-down mirror image, which is not the same as a 180° rotation.

It's lossless, and the dimensions don't change

Under the hood, flipping is a canvas transform: the image is drawn with its axis scaled by -1, which relocates every pixel to its mirror position without inventing any new color values. Nothing is interpolated or blurred, so a flip is effectively lossless — unlike an arbitrary-angle rotation, which has to resample pixels along the new diagonal. The output keeps the exact same width and height as the input; only the pixel arrangement changes.

One practical note: the result is always saved as a PNG, even if you fed in a JPG. PNG is lossless, so nothing degrades, but if you specifically need the output as a JPG (for size), run it through the image converter afterward.

Common reasons to flip

Selfie mirroring — a front camera usually shows you mirror-reversed from how others actually see you; a horizontal flip corrects it so text on your shirt and your part reads the right way.
Sprite direction — game sprites drawn facing one way get flipped to face the other, rather than drawing a second frame by hand.
Layout balance — mirroring a logo or portrait so the subject "faces into" the page instead of off the edge.

Privacy

Mirroring runs as a local canvas operation. The file is decoded, transformed, and re-encoded on your device; it is never uploaded, which makes this safe for personal photos and unreleased artwork alike.

Frequently asked questions

What's the difference between flipping and rotating?: Flipping reflects the image across an axis like a mirror, so text comes out readable-but-backwards; rotating turns it around its center, so 180° leaves text upside-down but still reading left-to-right. A vertical flip is not the same as a 180° rotation — the flip mirrors top-to-bottom, the rotation spins the whole frame.
Does flipping reduce image quality?: No. A flip relocates each pixel to its mirror position by scaling the canvas axis by -1, inventing no new colors and resampling nothing, so it's effectively lossless. The output keeps the exact same width and height as the input — only the pixel arrangement changes.
What file format is the flipped image saved as?: Always a PNG, even if you uploaded a JPG, with a name like yourfile-flipped-horizontal.png or -flipped-vertical.png. PNG is lossless so nothing degrades; if you specifically need a JPG for size, run the result through an image converter afterward.
How do I fix a selfie that looks mirror-reversed?: Use a horizontal flip. Front cameras usually show you mirrored compared to how others see you, so text on your shirt reads backwards and your hair part looks swapped; flipping left-to-right restores the true orientation.
Can I flip horizontally and vertically at the same time?: You pick one axis per run, but you can run it twice — flip horizontally, then flip that result vertically. Flipping across both axes is mathematically identical to rotating the image 180°.

Privacy

Mirroring the image is a local canvas operation; the file stays on your device the entire time.