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Image Flipper

Flip a JPG, PNG, or WebP image horizontally, vertically, or both — right in your browser using the Canvas API. See a live before/after preview and download the flipped result instantly.

Try:

Drag and drop an image here, or click below to browse. JPG, PNG, and WebP supported.

How To Use

1.Drag and drop an image onto the upload area, or click it to browse your files — JPG, PNG, and WebP are all supported.
2.Choose Flip Horizontal to mirror the image left-to-right, Flip Vertical to mirror it top-to-bottom, or Flip Both to do both at once (equivalent to a 180° rotation).
3.Compare the Before and After previews side by side to confirm the result looks the way you expect.
4.Switch between directions as many times as you like — each click re-flips the original image, so you never lose quality from repeated flips.
5.Copy the flipped image to your clipboard, download it, or share a link to this tool once you're done.

Examples

Landscape sample

A generated landscape-oriented sample — try each flip direction to see the mirror effect clearly.

Square sample

A generated square, high-detail sample — good for spotting subtle mirroring differences.

Transparent PNG sample

A generated PNG with real transparency and asymmetric shapes, to make the flip direction obvious and confirm transparency survives.

About Image Flipper

What Image Flipping Does

Flipping — also called mirroring — reflects every pixel in an image across a chosen axis, producing a result where left and right are swapped (horizontal flip), top and bottom are swapped (vertical flip), or both at once (equivalent to a 180° rotation). Unlike cropping or resizing, flipping doesn't remove any part of the image or change its pixel dimensions — every original pixel is still present in the output, just repositioned to its mirrored coordinate. It's a simple but genuinely useful transformation: correcting front-camera selfie mirroring, creating symmetric design assets, or adjusting which direction a subject appears to face relative to the rest of a layout.

How Browser-Based Image Flipping Works

This tool decodes your uploaded image and draws it onto an in-memory HTML canvas using a coordinate transform — specifically, the canvas context's scale() method with a negative value on the axis being mirrored, combined with a matching translate() to keep the flipped image positioned correctly within the canvas bounds rather than drawing off-screen. Flip Both simply applies a negative scale on both axes in the same draw operation. Once drawn, the canvas is re-exported as a new image file in your original format, entirely through standard, well-supported browser APIs (Canvas and the File/Blob APIs) with no server round-trip or third-party service involved, and every flip is always computed fresh from your original uploaded file so repeated direction changes never compound any quality loss.

Flip vs. Rotate vs. Crop

These three operations are frequently confused but each does something fundamentally different. Flipping mirrors an image across an axis, changing its 'handedness' without changing its overall shape or dimensions — a horizontally-flipped square photo is still the same size, just left-right reversed. Rotating spins an image around its center by an angle, which can change its overall bounding dimensions for non-90°-multiple angles but never mirrors anything, so text and asymmetric details keep their original orientation, just turned. Cropping extracts a smaller rectangular region and discards everything outside it, changing the image's dimensions and content but never mirroring or rotating what remains. A typical real editing workflow might use any combination of the three — flip a selfie to correct front-camera mirroring, rotate it to fix a sideways orientation, then crop it to a specific aspect ratio — and this tool intentionally handles only the first of those three, with dedicated Image Rotator and Image Cropper tools available for the other two.

Common Uses for Flipping an Image

Correcting selfie mirroring is one of the most common everyday uses — many front-facing phone cameras show a mirrored live preview for a more intuitive, mirror-like framing experience, but save the final photo un-mirrored (or vice versa depending on the device and app), which can leave a saved photo mirrored relative to how you framed it and how others would naturally recognize you, including reversing any visible text like a shirt logo. In design work, flipping is a fast way to create a mirrored duplicate of an icon, character illustration, or decorative element for a symmetric layout, without needing to redraw or re-export the asset from original design software.

Flipping is also commonly used to adjust which direction a photographed subject appears to face — a common composition principle in page layout is to have a subject (a person, an arrow, a moving object) face 'into' the surrounding content rather than off the outer edge of the page, and a quick horizontal flip can resolve that without needing to reshoot or re-source the image. In photography and printing workflows specifically, flipping is occasionally required to correctly orient an image for certain printing or fabric transfer processes where the physical process itself mirrors the final output.

FAQs

No. Flipping happens entirely inside your browser using the HTML Canvas API — your image is decoded locally, mirrored using a canvas transform, and re-exported without any server-side component involved in processing it at any point. This means you can safely flip personal photos, unreleased product shots, or confidential screenshots without any of the image data ever leaving your device or being logged anywhere. You can confirm this yourself by opening your browser's developer tools and watching the network tab while you use the tool — you won't see any outgoing requests carrying image data.

Flipping mirrors an image across an axis — horizontal flip swaps left and right as if you were looking at the image in a mirror, and vertical flip swaps top and bottom as if the image were reflected in still water below it. Rotating, by contrast, spins the entire image around its center point by a chosen angle without mirroring anything — text and asymmetric details keep their original left-right and top-bottom orientation, just turned. A flip changes an image's 'handedness' (a mirrored letter 'R' looks backwards), while a rotation never does. If you need to spin an image by 90°, 180°, or a custom angle instead of mirroring it, use our dedicated Image Rotator tool (see Related Tools below).

Flip Both mirrors the image across both the horizontal and vertical axes simultaneously — left/right AND top/bottom are swapped in the same operation. Mathematically, flipping both axes at once produces the exact same visual result as rotating the image 180°, since a double mirror reflection is equivalent to a half-turn rotation. This option is included as a single-click convenience for that specific, commonly-needed transformation, without you needing to flip twice or reach for a separate rotation tool.

Flipping is useful any time an image's orientation doesn't match what you need visually: correcting a photo taken with a front-facing selfie camera (which often mirrors the preview compared to how a viewer would naturally see it), creating a mirrored duplicate of a design element for symmetric layouts, fixing a subject that's facing the 'wrong' direction relative to surrounding page content (design convention often prefers a subject facing into the content rather than off the edge of the page), or preparing before/after image pairs where a consistent orientation matters for comparison.

Yes — flipping only rearranges existing pixels by mirroring their position; it doesn't resample, blur, or discard any pixel data the way resizing can. For JPG and WebP output, the tool re-encodes at a high, visually lossless-feeling quality setting (92%) to avoid introducing new compression artifacts beyond whatever your original file already had; PNG output remains fully lossless as always, since PNG has no quality setting to begin with. You can flip an image back and forth between directions repeatedly without any cumulative quality loss, since every flip always starts fresh from your original uploaded file rather than from a previously-flipped, already-recompressed version.

Yes — flipping mirrors every pixel in the image uniformly, including any text, logos, or watermarks baked into the image itself, which will appear backwards (mirror-reversed) after a horizontal or vertical flip. This is an inherent, unavoidable property of flipping as an operation, not a limitation specific to this tool — if your image contains text you need to stay readable, you'll need to either avoid flipping it, or add the text back separately after flipping using an image editor or our Watermark Image tool (see Related Tools below).

The flipped image keeps the same format as your original upload — a JPG stays a JPG, a PNG stays a PNG, and a WebP stays a WebP — since flipping only rearranges pixel positions, not the underlying file format or its encoding. If you need to convert to a different format as well as flip, use one of our dedicated format converters (see Related Tools below) either before or after flipping.

Yes — the canvas transform used to flip the image preserves the alpha channel exactly, so any transparent or semi-transparent areas in your original PNG remain transparent (just mirrored to their new position) in the flipped output. If your original image was a JPG, which has no transparency support at all, the flipped JPG will simply remain fully opaque throughout, since there was no transparency information to begin with.

This tool focuses specifically on flipping; if you also need to rotate the image — whether before or after flipping — download the flipped result here first, then upload that file into our dedicated Image Rotator tool (see Related Tools below) to apply a 90°, 180°, 270°, or custom-angle rotation on top. Keeping flip and rotate as separate, focused tools makes each one simpler to use correctly, and chaining them by downloading and re-uploading between steps loses no quality, since each tool always works from the exact file you give it.

There's no hard-coded limit in this tool, and the Canvas API handles reasonably large images efficiently in the browser, since flipping only requires a single draw operation regardless of image complexity. For an extremely large or high-resolution source image, you may notice a brief moment of processing time while the canvas redraws the mirrored result — this is a normal, one-time cost tied to image size and your device's performance, not an ongoing performance issue with the tool itself.

Image Flipper handles mirroring an image horizontally, vertically, or both. These related image tools cover other common transformations you'll often need alongside flipping.

Image Rotator

ImageRotate an image by 90°, 180°, 270°, or a custom angle — a different transformation from flipping.

Image Cropper

ImageCrop a flipped image down to a specific region or aspect ratio.

Image Resizer

ImageResize a flipped image to exact pixel dimensions.

Watermark Image

ImageAdd a text or logo watermark back onto an image after flipping.