Invert Colors

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Invert the colors of an image to a photo negative.

What is Invert Colors?

Invert Colors flips every pixel in your image to its exact opposite, turning a photo into a color negative — light becomes dark, blue becomes orange, and white becomes black. Drop in a PNG, JPEG, or WebP and the inverted result appears instantly, ready to download as a lossless PNG. The whole conversion runs on a canvas in your browser, so your image is never uploaded.

How to use Invert Colors

  1. Add your image

    Drag a PNG, JPEG, or WebP onto the drop zone, or click to browse. It loads at full resolution and is decoded locally.

  2. See the inverted preview

    The tool reads every pixel and replaces each red, green, and blue value with 255 minus itself. The negative version appears in the preview immediately.

  3. Check the result

    Transparency is preserved — only the colors are inverted, so a PNG with a transparent background keeps it. Compare the file size shown before and after.

  4. Download the PNG

    Click Download PNG to save the inverted image, named after your original file with an -inverted suffix.

Common uses

  • Create a photo-negative effect for artwork or posters
  • Turn a dark-mode screenshot into a light one (or vice versa)
  • Recover detail from a scanned film negative by inverting it
  • Preview how a design looks with reversed colors
  • Make white-on-black diagrams into black-on-white for printing
  • Produce a striking inverted version of a logo or icon

Why choose FreeTools

100% private

Your files are processed inside your browser and are never uploaded to a server.

Free, no account

No sign-up, no watermark, no paywalled “premium” tier. Just open a tool and use it.

Instant

No upload, no queue, no server round-trip — work starts the moment you drop a file.

Runs in your browser

Built on open web standards. Works on any modern desktop browser, nothing to install.

No upload size caps

Nothing leaves your device, so there’s no server file-size limit — only your machine’s memory.

Yours to keep

Results download straight to your device in clean, standard file formats.

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