Flip or mirror an image

FileGizmo flips images without transferring them to a server. A horizontal flip mirrors the picture from left to right, which is useful for adjusting a subject’s direction, correcting mirrored camera captures, or preparing symmetrical graphics. A vertical flip turns the image across its horizontal axis. Choose a JPG, PNG, or WebP file, select the direction, and then select Flip image to create a downloadable preview.

The operation keeps the original pixel dimensions and redraws the image once in a dedicated browser worker. PNG transparency remains intact, while JPEG and WebP use a high-quality browser encoder. Flipping changes the visible pixels but does not attempt to preserve camera metadata, GPS details, or editing history; use the EXIF remover when metadata privacy is the main goal. Text inside a horizontally mirrored image will also be reversed, so check logos, signs, screenshots, and documents before sharing the result. The browser returns a standard image blob, filename, and MIME type, and FileGizmo revokes temporary preview links when you reset the workflow.

Flipping rewrites the pixels rather than setting an orientation flag. That distinction matters because a flag can be ignored: some browsers, chat apps, and printers honour EXIF orientation and others do not, so an image that merely claims to be flipped appears both ways depending on where it is opened. Here the change is permanent and travels with the file.

Horizontal mirroring is the one people usually want. A selfie taken on a front camera is mirrored by the camera itself, so text in the background reads backwards and the result feels subtly wrong to anyone who knows the subject. Flipping horizontally puts the scene back the way it was seen.

Vertical flipping is less common but appears in scanning and scientific workflows, where an instrument writes rows in the opposite order and the image arrives upside down rather than rotated.

No pixel is invented, but a JPG has to be re-encoded to be saved, so a small amount of quality is lost as with any JPG edit. Starting from PNG or WebP avoids that entirely.

The image is processed by your browser, so a personal photo does not have to be handed to a server to be mirrored.