How to flip a photo

Browsing through the photos you took with your digital camera or smartphone, did you notice that some shots were upside down? Don't worry, it's a classic: sooner or later everyone happens to take some pictures holding the camera or mobile phone in the wrong direction. Fortunately, however, these errors can be easily remedied by using applications available for both mobile devices and computers.

How do you say? You are dying to discover how to flip a photo using this kind of solutions? So let me tell you: you've come to the right place at the right time! In this guide, in fact, you can find a detailed explanation about it and a series of useful solutions to flip images both on mobile devices and on the computer. You will see, completing this operation will be anything but complicated, especially if you follow the "tips" I will give you step by step!

So, what are you doing still standing there? Courage: make yourself comfortable, take all the time you need to concentrate on reading the next paragraphs and, more importantly, put my suggestions into practice, so as not to have problems completing your "business" today. There is nothing left for me to do but wish you happy reading and wish you a big good luck for everything!

How to flip a photo on Android and iPhone

If you took a photo with your device Android or with yours iPhone and now you want to overturn it, know that you will necessarily have to turn to some third-party application, as neither Android nor iOS have “standard” functions for overturning images.

One of the best apps to flip photos on smartphones and tablets is Snapseed, which is available on both Android and iOS. Snapseed is a very popular mobile photo editing solution developed by Google that is not only 100% free, but also very easy to use.

After installing and starting Snapseed on your device, press the button capacitor positive (+) lead placed in the center of the screen and select the image you want to edit from the Gallery of your device. At this point, tap on the item Instruments, presses on the voice Wheel from the menu that opens and, in the screen that is shown to you, tap on the symbol ►|◁ bottom left: as if by "magic", the photo will be flipped horizontally.

Now you just have to press on the symbol (✓) at the bottom right, tap on the item Export and select the save / share option you prefer.

Of course, Snapseed is not the only app that allows you to do this kind of work: on the stores there are an infinity of them just waiting to be downloaded and tried. If you want to get to know some of them more closely, I invite you to consult the guides I have dedicated to apps to retouch photos and apps to edit photos.

How to flip a photo on Windows

If you want flip a photo su Windows, know that you do not necessarily have to install third-party programs, as the operating system integrates various applications that allow you to complete this operation.

One of them is Paint, the famous drawing program present on practically all versions of Windows. To use it, start the application on your PC, click on the item apri present in the menu Fillet (the blue button at the top left) and select the image you want to flip. Then select the entire surface of the photo by clicking on the item Select all contained in the button Select.

Press the right mouse button anywhere in the photo and select the item Flip vertically or the voice Flip horizontally from the menu Wheel, to flip the image vertically or horizontally (depending on the result you want to achieve). If you want, you can also do this by opening the menu Rotate ▾ present in the Paint toolbar and selecting the item directly Flip vertically o Flip horizontally.

When the work is complete, save your edited photo by selecting the item Save with name from the menu Fillet di Paint. If you have a PC upgraded to Windows 10, know that you can flip images using Gallery, the default image reader that is present in the latest release of Windows. To do this, you have to open the photo you want to edit with the latter, press the button Edit and create (top right), click on the entry Modification in the menu that opens, press the button Cut and rotate and then press the button Flip. If you are satisfied with the result obtained, save the changes made by pressing on the items Done e Save.

How to flip a photo on macOS

Also on MacOS it is possible to overturn a photo in a very simple way using a tool included "standard" in the operating system: Gallery.

To proceed, start the application in question by pressing the icon of stylized flower located on the bar Dock or in Launchpad, locate the photo you want to flip and click on its preview to view it in full screen. At this point, open the menu Image (top left, in the macOS menu bar) and click on the item Speculating o Upside down, based on how you intend to flip the photo. The changes will be saved automatically. Easier than that ?!

Have you downloaded a photo from the Internet that you need to flip, but have no intention of importing it into the Photos app? If so, you can do the operation in question using Preview, the image and PDF reader built into macOS.

To proceed, open an image with Preview (if it is no longer the default player, you have to right click on the image in question and then select the items Open with> Preview), enter the menu Instruments (top) and select the item Speculating o Upside down from the latter, based on the change you intend to make. Again, the changes will be saved automatically.

How to flip a photo with Photoshop

You want to flip a photo using Photoshop, the famous Adobe photo editing program? And what's the problem ?! Just use one of its countless functions to do it without too much effort. To begin with, start Photoshop on your computer and import the image you want to flip into it by selecting the item apri from the menu Fillet or, if you prefer, by dragging the file into the box Drag an image located in the main program window.

Now, open the menu Image (top), select the item Image rotation and click on the entry Flip Horizontal Picture, if you intend to flip the photo horizontally, or on the item  Flip picture verticalif you want to flip the photo vertically.

When you are satisfied with the result, save the changes made to the photo by selecting the item Save from the menu Fillet And that's it. For more information on how to flip a photo with Photoshop, take a look at the in-depth article I just linked to. I'm sure this further reading will also be useful to you.

How to flip a photo with Word

You are going to flip a photo present in a document Word? Nothing could be simpler: after opening the Word document in which the image to overturn is located, select it by clicking on it, press the tab Size that appears in the toolbar of the program, open the menu Rotate ▾ situato in alto a destra e seleciona la voce Flip vertically or the voice Flip horizontally from the menu that opens (depending on how you want to flip the photo). To save the changes made, then, press the button Fillet and select the item Save from the screen that opens.

The same operation can also be performed in Word Online, the official Microsoft Word web application (which I remind you can be used for free, as long as you have a Microsoft account): to use it, connected to this web page, log into your Microsoft account by entering your credentials in the appropriate form login and open the document to edit (which must have been previously uploaded to OneDrive, Microsoft's cloud storage service).

Then select the image you want to flip by clicking on it, press the tab Image, open the menu Rotate ⌵ located at the top left and select the item Flip vertically o Flip horizontally from the menu that opens (depending on how you want to flip the photo). To save the changes made, then, press the button Fillet and select the item Save with name from the menu that appears on the side.

In case you were wondering, you can flip a photo with Word on his own too official app for Android, iOS and Windows 10 Mobile (which can be downloaded and used for free on all devices with dimensions equal to or less than 10.1 ″, otherwise you must subscribe to Office 365, which starts at 7 euros / month). To proceed, just start the app, open the document containing the image to be overturned and follow the instructions below.

• Yes smartphone - tap on the photo you want to overturn, press the symbol (...) at the bottom right, select the item Image from the drop-down menu on the left (if necessary), tap on the item Arrange and then select the item Flip vertically o Flip horizontally from the menu that opens (depending on the result you want to get).
• Yes tablet - tap on the photo you want to overturn, press the menu Image located at the top right (if necessary), tap the button Wheel (the icon of the two triangles with the arrow located at the top right) and select the item Flip vertically o Flip horizontally from the menu that opens (depending on how you want to flip the photo).

How to flip a photo online

Did you know it is possible flip a photo online, therefore, without installing ad hoc programs on your computer? Are you wondering how it is possible to do such a thing? The credit goes to the numerous photo editing Web applications that allow you to carry out these and other photo editing jobs directly from the browser.

One of the best online resources for flipping photos is LunaPic, a free service that works without registration and without installing additional plugins. To use LunaPic, connected to this Web page, press the button KATEGORIEN, select the image you want to upload and wait for its upload to be completed.

Then hover the mouse cursor over the tab Adjust, select the voice Mirror from the menu that opens and that's it. Now you can finally download the output image locally by clicking on the link Share at the bottom or click on one of the other links available to share it on the main social networks.

If you want to take a look at other services similar to LunaPic, I suggest you read my guide dedicated to programs to edit photos online: there you will find a slew of websites dedicated to photo editing that will certainly come in handy.

How to flip a photo