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Invert Image Colors

Flip an image to a negative, or invert only light and dark.

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Drop an image here or click to browse
or paste from clipboard (Ctrl+V) · JPEG, PNG, WebP
Files stay in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.

How to invert the colors in an image

  1. Add your image

    Drop a JPG, PNG, or WebP onto the tool, click to browse, or paste one from your clipboard. It inverts straight away.

  2. Choose the inversion

    Full negative flips every color channel the way film negatives look. Lightness only swaps light and dark while leaving hues where they are.

  3. Download the result

    Click Download image to save the file in the same format it arrived in, at the original pixel dimensions.

Why use this tool

Two genuinely different results

A full negative turns blue into orange the way scanned film does. Lightness only keeps blue blue and simply swaps light for dark, which is what you usually want for a diagram.

Turns light diagrams dark

Lightness only mode is the quick way to make a white-background chart or screenshot sit properly in a dark themed document without recoloring every element by hand.

Transparency stays untouched

Only the color channels are flipped. The alpha channel is left alone, so a PNG or WebP cutout keeps its transparent surroundings.

Format and resolution kept

The output matches the format you dropped in and holds the original pixel dimensions, so it drops straight back into wherever the original was used.

Nothing is uploaded

The inversion runs on your device with no account, no queue, and no watermark.

About this tool

Inverting an image swaps each color for its opposite: black becomes white, white becomes black, and everything in between crosses to the other side of the scale. It is how scanned film negatives are turned back into positives, and it is a quick way to check that a design still reads when its values are reversed.

The full negative mode does exactly that, flipping all three color channels. That is faithful to what a negative looks like, but it is rarely what people want from a diagram, because a blue chart line comes out orange. The lightness only mode solves that: it reads each pixel as a hue, a saturation, and a lightness, then inverts just the lightness. A white background goes near black, a black label goes near white, and the brand colors in between stay recognisably themselves.

Both modes leave the alpha channel alone, so transparency in a PNG or WebP survives, and the output is written back in the format you started with. Pair it with the grayscale converter when an image needs to be both desaturated and reversed, use the color contrast checker to confirm the inverted version still meets WCAG AA, and reach for the image compressor if the file needs to be smaller afterwards.

Frequently asked questions

How do I invert the colors of an image?
Drop the image into the box. It is inverted immediately, and you can switch between a full negative and a lightness-only flip before downloading.
What is the difference between the two modes?
Full negative flips every color channel, so hues change as well as brightness. Lightness only swaps light and dark while keeping hue and saturation, which suits diagrams and screenshots.
Does inverting affect transparency?
No. Only the color channels are changed, so transparent areas in a PNG or WebP stay exactly as transparent as they were.
Can I invert a photo back to the original?
Yes for the full negative mode. Running an inverted image through it a second time returns the original colors, apart from any rounding in a lossy format like JPG.
Are my images uploaded anywhere?
No. Everything happens in your browser and the file is never sent to a server.

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