2Choose the axis — horizontal gives you a mirror image, vertical an upside-down reflection.
3Apply the flip, then check any text, logos or numbers in the preview, because those mirror along with everything else.
4Download the flipped Image file.
Flip Image FAQ
Does the source format matter when flipping?
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It does. this format is read and written by the same streaming pipeline as everything else we support. That is what decides whether the mirror can be done by rewriting the file or requires decoding it first.
Anything specific to Image to be aware of?
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Yes — the pipeline reads the real format from the file header rather than the extension, so a mislabelled upload still works. Worth a moment before you flip something you cannot easily recreate.
When would I actually want to flip rather than rotate?
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Correcting a scan or a webcam capture that came out mirrored, making a symmetrical pair from a single asset, or matching the direction a subject faces to a layout. If the content contains text, logos or numbers, check the result — those mirror too.
How does Flip Image mirror the file?
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Concretely, the mirror is applied losslessly wherever the source format permits it, so most of a mixed batch is rewritten rather than re-encoded. You choose the axis — horizontal produces a mirror image, vertical produces an upside-down reflection — and the whole file is transformed on it.
Can I run Flip Image on several images at once?
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Yes, and mixing formats in the batch is fine — settings are applied per file with the right decoder for each. Free accounts run one file at a time; a pass removes that.
What happens to metadata and transparency?
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EXIF and the ICC colour profile are carried across wherever the target format supports them, and an alpha channel survives into any format that has one. Transparency is only flattened when the destination format has no way to represent it.
Is there a file size limit on Flip Image?
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Yes: free accounts process images up to 5 MB each regardless of which image format you brought; ImageMagick, libjpeg-turbo, libpng and libwebp do the actual work. The cap is per file, so a batch of twenty 5 MB photos is fine even though the total is well over the limit.
Will Flip Image lower the quality of my images?
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That depends on what you brought. A lossless source (PNG, BMP, TIFF) round-trips exactly; a lossy one (JPG, WebP, GIF) is already the product of one quantisation pass and only re-encodes if the operation genuinely requires it.
Why does a Word site host Flip Image?
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WORD.to is built around the editable end of a document's life — the DOCX that is still being written, still being styled and still being argued over, before anyone flattens it for sending. Office files are containers full of other people's media — images, embedded audio, fonts — so the work people need on them is usually the work they would need on those contents anyway. Flip Image shares the upload, the caps and the account with the conversions for that reason.
What should I do with the result once Flip Image is finished?
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The converter on this site takes documents out to PDF for sending, to images for embedding and to plain text for anything that has to read them programmatically, and back the other way. Doing that afterwards keeps the editable original around, which is the part you cannot get back once it has been flattened.
Is Flip Image here the same tool the sibling sites run?
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The engines are shared — the same document toolchain, the same workers, the same limits. What a Word site adds is a view on what survives leaving the Office format and what does not, which is the question every one of these jobs actually turns on. It also starts from one fact about the format this site is named after: the document is a zip of XML, so text edits are cheap and the weight is almost always the embedded images.
Do I need an account, and does anything get kept?
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No account, and nothing is kept: uploads are deleted from the workers shortly after the job finishes, nothing is read and nothing is indexed. Free accounts exist for history and batch size, not for access.
