Often, when designing an image, it becomes necessary to reflect a picture or text. This can be done in several ways that will not take much time.
Why do I need a mirror function
Let's say you need to make a beautiful composition for a website, where a pretty girl will be reflected in the mirror against the background of nature. Or you just need to mirror the image downloaded from some site so that it does not look much like the original image. Or the photo turned out to be not very good, but if you rotate it in a mirror, it will be better.
This is far from full list reasons why mirroring is done. Even if this function is not needed, it does not mean that it will not be needed tomorrow either. You can flip a picture in any editor and in almost every image viewer. This is done very simply: you just need to open an editor or a program, find the "mirror" or "mirror" button (select horizontally or vertically as needed), after which the photo will go to the state we need. The only difficulty is that this function in various programs located in different places, so let's look at the most popular utilities for viewing and editing graphic files for this function.
Viewers
Almost all graphic file viewers have a mirroring function. In addition to the built-in utility "View Windows Photos", which does not have such an opportunity.
Microsoft Office Picture Manager
This viewer is included in the package Microsoft programs Office. It has a small set of functions: remove red eyes, correct brightness and contrast, crop and mirror reflection of the photo. Mirroring can be done as follows: launch the utility and open the photo (or open the photo using the picture manager), in the upper toolbar, click on "Picture", where from the drop-down list select "Rotate and Flip". Now in the panel on the right we define how to reflect and save.
FastStone Image Viewer
Quite a powerful viewer of graphic elements, which has a lot of different functions and effects, among them "Mirroring". We go in two ways:
- open the utility and find the desired image in the file tree;
- open the photo using this program directly.
Now right-click anywhere in the picture, find the "Change" item and select "flip horizontally" (vertically).
Paint
A drawing known to everyone from an early age can also turn a drawing over. The procedure is the same as with other programs: start the drawing tool and open the picture (you can drag it) or open it "with". Now on the top toolbar we find the icon with two triangles and a rotating arrow (located next to the "Select" function). Click on the triangles and click on the items "Flip Horizontal" or "Flip Vertical".
Using the graphics editor Adobe Photoshop
Photoshop is perhaps the most famous graphics editor. All thanks to its impressive functions for editing and creating graphic files. Of course, this utility will be able to reflect the photo without any problems.
Open the picture with using Photoshop, go to the "Image" tab. In the list that appears, we find the item "Rotate Canvas". Hover over it and see how another list appears, in which you need to click "Flip canvas horizontally" or "Flip canvas vertically".
Reflecting the text
In addition to mirroring a picture, many text and image editors are capable of mirroring text. We will not consider all programs, we will focus on the most popular - Microsoft Word and Adobe photoshop.
You can flip the text in the "Word" as follows. Open the document and go to the "Insert" tab in the top toolbar. Here we find the "WordArt" tool, click on it and select the template you like. Next, write the desired text. We now have two ways to reflect what is written:
- click on the text, as a result of which dots appear around it to resize. We clamp one such point, which is in the middle on either side, and drag it in the opposite direction;
- click on the text, after which the "Format" tab appears in the toolbar, highlighted in a certain color and signed "Working with WordArt objects". Go to it and find the Rotate tool (with the image of two triangles with an arrow).
Adobe photoshop
We act in the same way as with the image. But first you need to write the text. In the toolbar, click on the "T" button (or the Shift + T combination), click on the sheet with the cursor and type the text. Then go to the "Image" tab, "Image rotation" and "Flip canvas". But before you make a mirror reflection of the written, you need to select this particular layer, otherwise something else will be reflected.
From yesterday's lesson Photoshop you could find out around your axis. Today I am publishing another simple tutorial on how to flip a mirrored image in a picture vertically or horizontally. This simple Photoshop trick is often used for complex illustrations, collages and banners. For example, to create the effect of reflecting an object in water, a mirror or from a polished surface.
The model for this tutorial will be a forest girl from, whose image we successfully rotated at different angles.
Detailed instructions for beginners on how to mirror a photo in Photoshop
1. Open Photoshop and load the selected image that we want to reflect into it: File -> Open ...
2. From the main menu of the program Photoshop choose Image -> Rotate Canvas -> Flip Canvas Horizontal:
As a result of executing the command, we get a horizontally mirrored image:
Similarly, you can mirror the image and vertically. To do this, just run a similar command Image -> Rotate Canvas -> Flip Canvas Vertical... As a result, we get the following picture:
3. Save the result of mirroring the image using the menu item File -> Save for Web and Devices ...
When creating complex collages and illustrations in Photoshop mirror reflection used along with object rotation, layer duplication, partial picture erasure, and many other effects.
By mirroring photos, you can change the perception of the frame and make it more expressive. It is believed that people looking to the right in the picture are perceived more positively than people looking to the left. To the left - as if back to the past. In landscape and city photography, the situation is about the same: bridges, rivers, streets going to the right are movement into the future.
But, in addition to changing the perception of the picture, using mirroring and copying, you can achieve some interesting effects.
Let's take a look at how to mirror a picture in Photoshop.
Open the image in Adobe Photoshop. Our photo will open as a Background layer. And, by default, no changes can be applied to such a layer. This is done on purpose so that when you work, you always have the original frame. In order for the base layer to become possible to change, you need to double-click on the lock icon on the right in the layers panel. This will unlock the layer. Another option is to simply copy the layer and apply all changes to the copy.
There are two commands for flipping a layer in Photoshop. They are on the menu Edit / "Editing" → Transform / "Transformation".
Flip Horizontal- allows you to flip the photo horizontally.
Makes vertical mirroring.
Let's take another example that shows how to mirror a layer in Photoshop and achieve a kaleidoscope effect.
First, let's create a copy of the original layer. To do this, you can either select the menu item Layer / "Layers" → Duplicate Layer ... / "Duplicate layer ...", or with the mouse drag the layer thumbnail onto the new layer creation thumbnail in the layers panel.
Now let's increase the size of the canvas so that all parts of the future "kaleidoscope" are visible.
We need a menu item Image / "Image" → Canvas Size / "Canvas Size".
It is necessary to set the parameters in such a way that the canvas expands to the right by an amount equal to the width of the original image - we will add a mirror image from the opposite side. Therefore, the settings will look like this:
As an anchor point Anchor we set the left edge of the image - it stays in place. And indicated that the width of the canvas should increase by 200% relative to the original width. Let's leave the height unchanged for now.
After pressing the button Ok and applying all the changes made, the Photoshop window will look like the screenshot below.
Make sure that the top layer is active, and mirror it about the vertical axis using the command Edit / "Editing" → Transform / "Transform" → Flip Horizontal / "Flip horizontally"... Then, with the mouse, change the location of the two layers so that they are aligned along one of the edges.
For precise and accurate positioning, it is convenient to use the "Up", "Down", "Right" and "Left" keys on the keyboard.
Now let's make a mirror image on a different plane.
Let's merge the two current layers into one. This can be done with the command * Layer / "Layers" → Merge Visible / "Merge Visible"... Let's increase the size of the canvas in the same way as before, but this time vertically. The anchor point will be at the lower border, and we will increase the height by 200%.
It will turn out like this.
Create a copy of the top layer (which already includes the original and the mirrored image). And apply the reflection command to this copy Flip Vertical... After that, use the mouse to place the mirrored layer on a new location.
This is the effect of a kaleidoscope that can be obtained by mirroring pictures in Photoshop.
In the Word, every day around the world, a huge number of text documents... Someone has a report on work, a thesis, an essay, course work... And every second user is faced with adding pictures to the document. Although many, to the extent of their ability or ignorance, omit this moment... After all, it only seems that inserting a picture takes long time... And if you suddenly need to make a mirror image of the picture, then the older generation will probably ask a friend or close person for help, or maybe even skip this step altogether, citing lack of time. Let's figure it out together with the problem that has arisen.
Reflection of the picture "mirrored"
You can flip the pattern using the following steps. Initially, insert the picture into the Word document:
To mirror the image you need:
Flip the pattern horizontally
There are situations when it is necessary to change the direction of the drawing. In this case, it is necessary to change the direction of Santa Claus to the left. To flip a picture horizontally, you need to do the following:
Note. If you need to place two pictures next to the original result, as in the screenshot above, you need to copy the picture and then set the desired reflection.
Setting for mirroring the pattern
To achieve the desired effect during the reflection of the photo, you can adjust all the parameters manually. Clicking on the photo, go to the "Format" tab.
In the "Picture Format" window, set the desired type of "Blanks", for example, "Middle ... touch".
Note. You can flip a photo with an offset of several points from the original picture, for this you need to select the option "Reflection in 4 pt or 8 pt".
Any shift can be observed even when the active window "Picture Format" is open. To do this, slide the options window to the left or right of the image on the Word document sheet.
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Sometimes you need to get pictures in mirror image and there are several simple ways using standard or third-party software, as well as various online services. As part of this article, we will consider all of the listed options.
How to mirror in Paint
Any operating room Windows system the graphic editor Paint is preinstalled, with which we will start the list. Search bar you need to write "paint" ⇒ run the application.
After selecting the desired image on the computer File ⇒ Open.
Click on the Image ⇒ Rotate ⇒ Flip Horizontal or Vertical tab as required.
How to make a mirror image in Word
The Worrd text editor is probably more familiar to many than the graphical one and there is a lot of things you can do on it besides the formation of documents. So:
We create new document or open an existing one
Insert a picture
Right click on it
A drop-down menu will open where select the Picture Format tab.
Here we are interested in three points of Rotation around the axis, but in this case, for mirroring, select the item "X" and write 180 ° after which the goal will be achieved.
Mirroring in Photoshop
The present method is also very fast and simple like the previous two, but it implies the presence graphic editor"Photoshop" which not everyone has in the arsenal.
Run the program, insert a picture by dragging and drop or File ⇒ Open ⇒ Select a picture.
Editing ⇒ Transform ⇒ Flip horizontally. This completes all the actions, the drawing will take the desired form.
How to make a mirror image online
If you don't have any of the above programs, then it doesn't matter, there are special online services and I'll show you one of them now. We pass on this link to the site, a window will open:
Click the Browse button to search the picture on your PC
Flip Mirror: Choosing a Direction
Leave the rest as is, click OK.
In this window, you can immediately Download the processed image, Open for viewing or go back.
Well, all four methods shown in the article are very easy to operate and not time consuming, everything is done with a few clicks in less than a minute. This concludes today's topic until we meet again.
P.S Thanks to the mirror reflection, the picture is naturally unique, provided that it has not already been turned upside down.
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