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Invert Colors
Flip every color to its opposite. Create photo negatives, fix scanning artifacts, or produce striking artistic effects — all in your browser.
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Quick reference
- ● Each RGB channel is inverted: 255 - value.
- ● Black becomes white, white becomes black.
- ● Alpha channel is preserved — transparency stays intact.
- ● Everything runs locally — your image never leaves your device.
Why it matters
Color inversion is a fundamental image operation used in photography, graphic design, and accessibility. It creates photo negatives for artistic purposes, fixes inverted scans, and can improve readability of low-contrast text.
How to use
Upload
Drag and drop or click to select your image.
Preview
The inverted result appears instantly.
Download
Export your image in JPEG, PNG, or WebP.
Frequently asked questions
What does inverting colors do?
Inverting colors flips each RGB channel to its opposite value (255 minus the original). Black becomes white, red becomes cyan, green becomes magenta, and blue becomes yellow. This creates a photo-negative effect similar to traditional film negatives.
When should I use color inversion?
Color inversion is useful for creating artistic negative effects, fixing scanned documents with inverted colors, improving readability of dark-on-dark text, and generating interesting visual effects for design projects.
Does inversion change image size?
No. Inverting colors only changes the color values of existing pixels. The image dimensions, format, and file size remain essentially the same. The output may be slightly different in file size due to compression changes in different color patterns.