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How do I flip an image?

How do I flip an image? - Lightroom Tutorial

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How do I flip an image?

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- Sometimes you may have an image and you want to flip it because of different issues. Maybe you were shooting upside down and the camera didn't recognize the correct horizon. And you need to flip the image and get the top to the bottom and vice versa. Or maybe you just want to create a mirror image. Or maybe you were shooting in to a reflective surface. There's many reasons both artistic and technical that you may need to do this. Now, you naturally would be drawn to the transform controls but these are more for adjusting the tilt or the perspective if you have a visible error or distortion. For example, tilting the vertical image here helps a little bit with that alignment. I'll just double click to reset that. If you truly just need to do a flip, you'll find that under the Photo menu. We can choose to flip the image. And you see it exchanges the two sides. This let's us flip horizontally as well as vertically.…

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