Mirror Image Fixer

A front-camera selfie is usually saved mirrored — your face flipped left to right. One tap reverses every row and restores the true orientation, at the exact pixel size. Everything happens in your browser — nothing is uploaded.

Click or drag a mirrored photo here

JPG or PNG · the file stays on your device

This tool changes orientation only — it never resizes, crops or rewrites the face. A plain flip keeps the output at the input's exact W × H.

Flip a mirrored photo back to its true orientation

When you take a selfie with the front camera, the phone shows you a preview that reads like a mirror — the way you see yourself — and the saved file frequently keeps that same mirrored view. A second person looking at you sees the opposite arrangement, and so does a border officer or an automated gate comparing the photo with your document. That is the whole problem this tool solves: it puts the left-right arrangement back the way everyone else sees you.

The transform is deliberately minimal. Every pixel row is reversed, which is exactly what the canvas scale(-1, 1) + drawImage transform does: the top stays the top, the bottom stays the bottom, and each row's first pixel becomes its last. Nothing is resized or cropped — a plain flip keeps the output at the input's exact pixel dimensions (a 600 × 800 photo exports as 600 × 800), so it still fits whatever size the form asked for.

There are also 90° and 270° quarter-turn buttons for a file that saved sideways, and a Reset to return to the original. Fine-angle levelling is intentionally not part of this tool: if the shot is tilted rather than mirrored, the photo size chart tells you what dimensions a country wants, and levelling a crooked eye line belongs with tilt-aware tools rather than here. Keep the two problems apart — mirroring is a left-right swap, tilt is a rotation.

Privacy: the image is read with Canvas in your browser and is never uploaded, stored or transmitted. There is no server and no account. If the photo also needs a different pixel size afterwards, the image cropper re-frames it without touching the face.

Why officials reject a mirrored selfie

A handful of national specs name mirroring explicitly. Taiwan's BOCA guidance warns that selfies taken with a phone are prone to being mirrored and asks applicants to consider a photo studio instead, and it rules out composited, mirrored or retouched photos. More generally, a laterally reversed face breaks the automated comparison used at borders, because the geometry no longer matches the document the gate is checking against. The Taiwan passport photo page documents that requirement in detail.

The practical routine is: take the selfie, flip it back to true orientation here, then check the file against the rest of the rules. The guide to taking a passport photo and the at-home photo guide walk through framing, lighting and background, and the size chart lists the pixel sizes each country expects.

Frequently asked questions

Why does my selfie look mirrored?
Front-facing cameras often save the preview the way you saw it in the screen — reversed left to right — so the file keeps that mirrored view instead of the orientation a second person sees. Back-camera photos are not affected.

Do official photo rules accept a mirrored photo?
Several authorities say plainly that a mirrored, flipped or laterally reversed face is not accepted, and a mirror-flipped face can also defeat automatic border gates that compare your photo with your travel document. If the photo came from a selfie, treat mirroring as a checksum to clear before upload.

Does flipping change the pixel size or the crop?
No. A horizontal flip only reverses the order of the pixels inside each row, so the width and the height stay exactly the same (W × H unchanged) and nothing is cropped, scaled or padded.

Which way should I flip a selfie?
Press “Restore true orientation” once and compare the result with a mirror: in a true photo, a parting or a scar on your left appears on the left of the picture, and any text on your clothing reads the right way round. Press again to undo the flip if you prefer the original.

Can the tool rotate the photo as well?
There are 90° and 270° quarter-turn buttons for a sideways file, but fine-angle levelling is not offered here — it belongs to the photo straightener, which levels the eye line of a crooked shot. Use this tool for mirroring, and the straightener for tilt.

Is my photo uploaded anywhere?
No. The flip, the rotation and the encoding all run in your browser with Canvas. The photo never leaves your device, and there is no server, account or watermark.

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