Invert Image Colors
Invert image colors to turn any photo into its negative, with every pixel flipped to the opposite value. Choose a PNG, JPG or WebP, click once, preview the result and download it as a PNG.
Make a photo negative.
How to use Invert Image Colors
- Upload the image you want to flip
- Invert every color into its photo-negative opposite
- Download the negative image
About Invert Image Colors
Invert Image Colors flips every colour in a picture to its opposite, turning the photo into a negative: light areas go dark, dark areas go light, and each colour is swapped for its counterpart — red for cyan, green for magenta, blue for yellow. People reach for it to recreate the look of a film negative, to make faint scanned text or a low-contrast document readable, or simply to see a familiar image in an unfamiliar way.
It also works as a quick online alternative to hunting for the invert command buried in a desktop or design app. If you would normally flip colours in Photoshop, Illustrator, Canva, Figma, PowerPoint, Word or Microsoft Paint — or you are trying to invert a photo on an iPhone or a Windows PC — you can drop the file here instead, get the negative in one click, and download it without opening any of those programs. There are no menus to dig through and nothing to learn.
The whole thing runs in your browser. Your image is inverted right on your own device using the canvas built into the browser, so nothing is uploaded to a server and no copy is kept. It is free, needs no account, adds no watermark, and there is nothing to install — just upload, invert, and download the PNG.
Frequently asked questions
- What exactly does inverting change?
- Each pixel's red, green and blue value is replaced with 255 minus itself, using the browser's canvas invert filter. White becomes black, red becomes cyan, mid-greys barely move. It is a true photo negative, not a dark-mode recolour.
- If I invert twice, do I get the original back?
- Yes, exactly. Subtracting a value from 255 twice returns the value, so a second pass restores the original pixels with nothing lost.
- What file do I get back?
- Always a PNG, at the image's full original pixel dimensions — the download button shows the width, height and file size. A JPG in gives a PNG out, which avoids a second round of JPEG compression but can make the file larger.
- Does transparency survive?
- Yes. The invert filter touches only the colour channels, so a transparent PNG background stays transparent rather than flipping to black.
- How do I invert image colors on an iPhone?
- iOS has no built-in filter that saves one inverted photo — the Accessibility "Classic Invert" setting flips the entire screen, not a single image. Because this tool runs in the browser, you can open it in Safari or Chrome on the iPhone, pick a photo from your camera roll, and save the inverted PNG straight back to your phone.
- Can I use this instead of inverting colors in Photoshop, Canva or Figma?
- Yes. Photoshop inverts through Image > Adjustments > Invert (Ctrl+I), while apps like Canva, Figma and Illustrator handle it through a colour adjustment or filter. If a full negative is all you need, this is faster: upload the image, click once, and download the result without opening any of them.
- How do I invert an image's colors on Windows or in Microsoft Paint?
- In classic Paint you can select the whole picture, right-click and choose Invert Color; Windows also has a system-wide colour inversion in its magnifier and accessibility settings. To skip that and invert just one image file, upload it here and download the negative PNG — the result is the same on Windows, Mac, Chromebook or phone.
- Can I invert an image's colors for PowerPoint, Word or InDesign?
- Those apps don't offer a true one-click colour invert — Word and PowerPoint's Recolor options only tint an image, and InDesign has no invert for placed photos. Invert the picture here first, download the PNG, then insert that negative into your slide, document or layout.
- Can I invert only part of the image, or a single colour?
- No. There is no brush, selection or per-channel control — every pixel is inverted in one pass. A partial effect needs an editor with selection tools.
- What happens with an animated GIF?
- Only the frame the browser has loaded gets drawn to the canvas, so you get one inverted still saved as a static PNG, not an animated result.
- Which files can I open?
- The picker accepts anything the browser treats as an image — PNG, JPG, WebP, GIF, BMP, ICO, AVIF, SVG and TIFF among them. If the browser cannot actually decode the file you get a "couldn't read that image" message instead of a broken download.
- Is EXIF data kept?
- No. The result is re-encoded from the canvas, so EXIF, GPS coordinates and colour-profile data are dropped. Handy if you wanted the metadata gone, worth knowing if you needed it.
- How is this different from the Black & White tool?
- Inverting flips every colour to its opposite and keeps the image in colour. Black & White removes colour entirely and leaves the light and dark tones the way round they started.