Flip image

When to flip horizontally

• Un-mirroring selfies — your face as the camera saw it, not as the bathroom mirror shows it.
• Compositional corrections — swap the subject from the right side of the frame to the left so it sits better with your layout's reading order.
• Scanned document fixes — accidentally scanned reverse-side up? One horizontal flip puts the text back where it belongs.

When to flip vertically

• Upside-down scans that are mirrored on the horizontal axis — a vertical flip restores them without needing a 180° rotation plus mirror.
• Satellite or drone imagery where some providers deliver flipped output.
• Niche creative work — reflections, upside-down compositions, poster designs.

Flip vs rotate — which do you need?

A 180° rotation looks a lot like a flip, but they're different operations: rotation preserves left/right (a person's left ear stays their left ear), while flip swaps them (left ear becomes right ear). For correcting mirrored selfies you want horizontal flip. For a photo that was uploaded upside-down and needs restoring, you want rotate 180°.

Related tools

• Rotate image — rotate 90°, 180° or 270°, or combine with flip.
• Crop image — crop before or after flipping.
• Resize image — resize after flipping for exact dimensions.
• Image workspace — compress, resize, crop, flip, convert and remove metadata on one upload.