Image Color Inverter
Swap every colour in a picture for its opposite, live on the image, then download it at full resolution.
How it works
How to invert the colours of an image?
Open the picture
Drag in a JPG, PNG or WebP, or pick one. It is read straight off your device — nothing is uploaded, so there is no size cap and no queue.
It is already inverted
The full negative is the opening state, so the answer is on screen before you touch anything. Hold the compare button any time to see the picture you started from.
Change what inverted means
Keep the colours and flip only the light, invert one channel on its own, or pull the amount below 100% to stop part way. Five one-tap looks cover the usual ones.
Download it
Save as PNG, JPG or WebP. The invert is applied at the picture’s own resolution, so what you get is the full-size original with the colours flipped — and nothing stamped in the corner.
What it does
An image inverter with more than one answer
Inverting a picture is one line of arithmetic — each colour channel becomes 255 minus itself — and that is why every invert tool produces the same negative. What differs is what happens when the plain negative is not what you were after: a screenshot you want to read in the dark, a single channel you want flipped, or a look that lives part way between the picture and its opposite.
A true negative
Every channel replaced by 255 minus itself — the same thing a film negative does, and the same thing your operating system’s invert-colours accessibility setting does to the screen.
Or keep the colours
Flip the light and leave the hues where they are: a white page with black text comes back black with white text, and a red heading is still red rather than cyan.
One channel at a time
Invert red, green or blue on its own for a strong colour cast — red alone throws the picture cyan, green alone magenta, blue alone yellow. Any combination of the three works.
Partial inverts
The amount slider runs the whole way from the original to the negative, so you can stop at 30% for a washed, bleached look instead of the full flip.
Hold to compare
Press and hold to see the picture as it came in, in the same frame at the same size. Let go and the invert is back.
Transparency survives
A cut-out PNG keeps its transparent background — only the colour is flipped, never the alpha. Save as JPG and the see-through part comes back white rather than black.
Colours as well as pictures
A colour inverter on the same page: type or pick any colour and get its inverse and its colour-wheel opposite as swatches, with hex and RGB ready to copy.
Your own resolution
PNG, JPG or WebP with the quality in your hands, written at the picture’s own pixel size — never a preview blown back up.
Nothing leaves your device
The picture is read, inverted and saved entirely in your browser. There is no upload, no account and no watermark.
Which setting
Picking the right kind of invert
Four things people usually arrive wanting, and the setting that gets each one.
| You want | Use | Why that one |
|---|---|---|
| A negative of a photo, the film look | Negative | All three channels flipped at once — the same result as any other invert tool, and the state the page opens in |
| A document or screenshot readable at night | Keep the colours | Only the light is flipped, so the page turns dark and the text turns light while the headings, links and logos keep their own colours |
| A strong colour cast for a poster or a thumbnail | One channel | Inverting red alone drives the picture cyan, green alone magenta, blue alone yellow — a duotone-ish shift the plain negative cannot make |
| A washed, bleached, half-inverted look | Amount, around 25–40% | The slider walks the picture towards its opposite; stopping early lifts and flattens it instead of flipping it, and at 50% every pixel meets its opposite at mid-grey |
Colour inverter
What is the opposite of a colour?
A colour has two opposites and they are not always the same one. The inverse is what this tool does to a picture: subtract each channel from 255, which flips the hue and the brightness together. The complement is the design answer: turn the hue 180° across the colour wheel and leave the brightness alone. For a fully saturated, mid-bright colour they land in the same place — the opposite of green is magenta either way — and for anything muted or dark they part company. Brown inverts to a pale sky blue and complements to a teal of the same depth.
Inverted
255 − each channel. What this tool does to a picture.
Colour-wheel opposite
Hue turned 180°, brightness kept. The design answer.
The two agree only when the colour is fully saturated and mid-bright — pure green inverts and complements to the same magenta. Brown, navy and pastels come apart, because inverting flips the brightness as well as the hue and the colour wheel does not.
The short answers
Opposite colours, as a table
The inverse of the colours people ask about, with the hex code of each. These are the values the tool above produces, computed rather than typed out.
| Colour | Hex | Opposite | Hex |
|---|---|---|---|
| Green | #00FF00 | Magenta | #FF00FF |
| Red | #FF0000 | Cyan | #00FFFF |
| Blue | #0000FF | Yellow | #FFFF00 |
| Yellow | #FFFF00 | Blue | #0000FF |
| Cyan | #00FFFF | Red | #FF0000 |
| Magenta | #FF00FF | Green | #00FF00 |
| Orange | #FFA500 | Azure blue | #005AFF |
| Purple | #800080 | Mint green | #7FFF7F |
| Pink | #FFC0CB | Deep teal | #003F34 |
| Brown | #A52A2A | Sky blue | #5AD5D5 |
| Teal | #008080 | Salmon | #FF7F7F |
| Navy | #000080 | Pale yellow | #FFFF7F |
| Gold | #FFD700 | Royal blue | #0028FF |
| Black | #000000 | White | #FFFFFF |
| White | #FFFFFF | Black | #000000 |
| Grey | #808080 | Grey (near-identical) | #7F7F7F |
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