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Mirror photos left to right or flip them top to bottom in one click.
Mirror photos left to right or flip them top to bottom in one click.
| Action | Text stays readable | Left/right swapped | Top/bottom swapped | Typical use |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mirror (left ↔ right) | ✗ No | ✓ Yes | ✗ No | Selfie fix, transfer printing |
| Flip (top ↔ bottom) | ✗ No | ✗ No | ✓ Yes | Reflections, scanner mistakes |
| Both | ✗ No | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | 180° reflection effects |
| Rotate 180° | ✓ Yes | ✗ No | ✗ No | Upside-down photos |
What each transformation does to a photo.
To flip an image free: open PDFWix Flip Image, add your photos, choose Mirror (left ↔ right), Flip (top ↔ bottom) or Both, then click Flip images. One photo downloads straight away; a batch comes as a ZIP or one file at a time.
PDFWix Flip Image performs a canvas transform — scale(-1, 1) for a horizontal mirror and scale(1, -1) for a vertical flip — then re-encodes the picture in its original format at quality 0.95. Because the operation only reorders existing pixels, no detail is lost beyond one re-encode, and the image dimensions stay identical. Everything happens on the browser canvas, so files are never uploaded.
Mirroring reflects the picture across a vertical line, so the left and right sides swap. This is the fix for selfies, for scanned negatives, and for artwork that will be printed onto transfer paper. Flipping reflects across a horizontal line instead, as if the photo were upside down in water — useful for reflections and for correcting images captured through a scanner lid or a microscope. Rotating is different: it turns the picture without reflecting it, so text stays readable. If your photo is sideways rather than reversed, use Rotate Image instead. And if you only want to flip part of a picture, crop that part out first with Crop Image, flip it, and rebuild the layout in your editor of choice.
Quality lost: None beyond one re-encode · Typical time per photo: Under 1 second · Processing: 100% in your browser
Need a different fix? Rotate Image turns sideways photos upright, Crop Image trims the frame, and Photo Filters adjusts brightness and colour.
Use Mirror in PDFWix Flip Image. It swaps left and right, the same thing most people mean by inverting a photo.
Open PDFWix Flip Image, add your photo, pick Mirror or Flip and click Flip images. It is free, unlimited in quality and runs in your browser.
Mirroring swaps left and right; flipping swaps top and bottom. Mirroring is what fixes a reversed selfie.
No detail is lost in the flip itself. The file is re-saved once at high quality, which is visually identical.
Yes. Add as many as you like and they all flip in the same direction, then download together.
Yes. The tool works in mobile Safari and Chrome straight from your camera roll.
No. The flip happens on your device's own graphics engine.
Photo sideways rather than reversed? Rotate Image fixes that. To trim the frame afterwards, use Crop Image or Resize Image.