Invert Image Colors

Inverting is not a brightness or contrast trick. Every pixel's red, green, and blue channel is replaced with 255 minus its current value, so a pure black pixel (0, 0, 0) becomes pure white (255, 255, 255), and a mid-gray pixel stays close to mid-gray.

The effect applies to the entire photo; there is no way to invert only part of it here. Crop the image first with a separate crop tool if you only want one region inverted, then upload the crop to this tool.

PNG and WebP files can have transparent pixels, and inverting their color data can look odd once they're placed over a colored background. The Preserve transparent pixels option leaves fully transparent pixels' color data as-is while still inverting every opaque pixel normally, which avoids that artifact.

Inversion is commonly used to turn a scanned film negative into a positive-looking image, to create a stylized negative effect for design work, or to make a dark line drawing easier to read by swapping it to white lines on black. It's a one-way effect for viewing and creative work, not a repair tool for exposure or color balance.

If you're inverting a scanned negative, remember that a true photographic negative also has a color cast baked in by the film stock, which a simple RGB inversion doesn't correct. For a quick creative negative look or for flipping a line drawing's palette, a straight inversion like this one is usually enough.