Two ways to mirror a picture
People who search for “mirror image” usually want one of two things, and this tool does both.
The first is a plain mirror: the whole picture is reversed left to right, exactly like your reflection in a bathroom mirror. Use it to fix a selfie that came out reversed, to make a person face the other way, or to prepare a design for transfer paper that has to be printed in reverse.
The second is a mirror effect, also called a symmetry or reflection effect. Instead of reversing the whole image, the tool keeps one half and copies it, mirrored, over the other half. A face becomes perfectly symmetrical, a landscape turns into a kaleidoscope-like scene, and a building gets an impossible twin. This is the effect behind “what would I look like with two left sides” photos.
The five modes
| Mode | What you get |
|---|---|
| Mirror | The whole image reversed left to right |
| Reflect the left half | Left half kept, mirrored onto the right |
| Reflect the right half | Right half kept, mirrored onto the left |
| Reflect the top half | Top half kept, mirrored onto the bottom |
| Reflect the bottom half | Bottom half kept, mirrored onto the top |
The mirror line is always the exact middle of the image. If you want the symmetry to run through a particular point, such as the bridge of a nose, crop the photo first so that point is in the center. With an odd width or height, the single middle row or column of pixels stays as it was.
The image keeps its size in every mode, and the preview updates as soon as you change the setting.
Mirror image vs. flip image
The words overlap, so here is the difference on this site. Flip Image reverses the picture along an axis — horizontally, vertically or both — and is the right tool when you need an upside-down copy. This page mirrors left to right and adds the symmetry effects, which a flip cannot produce because a flip never duplicates part of the picture. To turn a picture without reversing it, so that text stays readable, use Rotate Image.
Ideas for mirror effects
- Symmetrical portraits: take a straight-on photo, center the face, and compare “reflect the left half” with “reflect the right half”. Most faces look surprisingly different.
- Reflections: a photo of a skyline or mountain with “reflect the top half” gives a calm water-reflection look.
- Patterns and backgrounds: reflect a texture, a leaf or a piece of fabric to get a seamless, balanced pattern.
- Comparisons: to show the original next to its mirrored version, download the result and combine both with Side by Side Photos.
Formats and privacy
You can open JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, GIF (first frame), BMP and SVG files, as well as iPhone HEIC photos. JPG, PNG and WebP are saved in the same format (JPG and WebP at 92% quality, PNG with its transparency kept); HEIC and AVIF come back as JPG, SVG, GIF and BMP as PNG. Safari can’t save WebP, so there a WebP file comes back as PNG.
The page reads and draws your image with your browser’s canvas, on your device. There is no upload, it keeps working offline once loaded, and the file you download is rebuilt from pixels, so camera metadata and GPS coordinates are not copied into it.