When working in MS Word the need arises to rotate text, not all users know how to do this. To effectively solve this problem, you should look at the text not as a set of letters, but as an object. It is on the object that you can perform various manipulations, including rotation around an axis in any precise or arbitrary direction.

We have already discussed the topic of text rotation earlier, in this article I would like to talk about how to make a mirror image of text in Word. Although the task seems more complicated, it can be solved using the same method and a couple of additional mouse clicks.

1. Create a text field. To do this, in the tab "Insert" in Group "Text" select item "Text field".

2. Copy the text you want to mirror ( CTRL+C) and paste into the text field ( CTRL+V). If the text is not yet printed, enter it directly into the text field.

3. Perform the necessary manipulations on the text inside the text field - change the font, size, color and other important parameters.

Mirror text

You can mirror text in two directions - relative to the vertical (top to bottom) and horizontal (left to right) axes. In both cases, this can be done using the tab tools "Format", which appears on the panel quick access after adding the shape.

1. Double-click on the text field to open the tab "Format".

2. In a group "Arrange" click the button "To turn" and select "Flip Left to Right"(horizontal reflection) or "Reflect from top to bottom"(vertical reflection).

3. The text inside the text box will be mirrored.

Make the text field transparent by following these steps:

• Right-click inside the field and click on the button "Circuit";
• Select an option from the drop-down menu "No outline".

Horizontal reflection can also be done manually. To do this, you simply need to swap the top and bottom edges of the text box shape. That is, you need to click on the middle marker on the top edge and drag it down, placing it under the bottom edge. The text field shape, its rotation arrow will also be at the bottom.

Now you know how to mirror text in Word.

Often when designing an image there is a need to reflect a picture or text. This can be done in several ways that will not take much time.

Why do you need the mirror function?

Let's say you need to make a beautiful composition for a website, where a pretty girl will be reflected in the mirror against the backdrop of nature. Or you just need to make a mirror image of a picture downloaded from some site so that it is not too similar to the original image. Or the photo turned out not very good, but if you turn it in a mirror, it will be better.

This is far from full list reasons why they do mirror image. Even if this function is not needed, it does not mean that it will not be needed tomorrow. You can mirror an image in any editor and in almost every image viewing program. This is done very simply: you just need to open the editor or program, find the “mirror” or “flip” button (choose horizontally or vertically as necessary), after which the photo will go into the state we need. The only difficulty is that this function in various programs is in different places, so let’s look at the most popular utilities for viewing and editing graphic files for this function.

Viewers

Almost all graphic file viewers have a mirroring function. Except for the built-in Windows Photo Viewer utility, which does not have this capability.

Microsoft Office Picture Manager

This viewer is included in the software package Microsoft Office. It has a small set of functions: remove red eyes, adjust brightness and contrast, crop and flip photos. You can mirror it as follows: launch the utility and open the photo (or open the photo using the picture manager), in the top toolbar click on “Picture”, where from the drop-down list select “Rotate and flip”. Now in the panel on the right we determine exactly how to reflect it and save it.

FastStone Image Viewer

Quite a powerful viewer of graphic elements, which has a lot of different functions and effects, among them “Mirror reflection”. We go two ways:

• open the utility and find the desired image in the file tree;
• open the photo using this program directly.

Now right-click anywhere in the picture, find the “Change” item and select “flip horizontally” (vertically).

Paint

The drawing tool known to everyone from an early age can also turn a drawing upside down. The procedure is the same as with other programs: launch the painter and open the picture (you can drag it) or open it “with help”. Now on the top toolbar we find an icon with two triangles and a rotating arrow (located next to the “Select” function). Click on the triangles and click on the items “Flip horizontally” or “Flip vertically”.

Using the Adobe Photoshop graphics editor

Photoshop is perhaps the most famous graphics editor. This is all thanks to its impressive features for editing and creating graphic files. Of course, this utility will be able to reflect photos without any problems.

Open the image with using Photoshop, go to the "Image" tab. In the list that appears, find the “Rotate canvas” item. We point at it and see how another list appears, in which you need to click “Flip canvas horizontally” or “Flip canvas vertically”.

Reflecting the text

In addition to reflecting a picture, many text and graphics editors are capable of mirroring text. We will not consider all programs, we will focus on the most popular - Microsoft Word and Adobe Photoshop.

You can mirror text in Word as follows. Open the document and go to the "Insert" tab in the top toolbar. Here we find the “WordArt” tool, click on it and select the template you like. Next, write the required text. Now we have two ways to reflect what we have written:

• Click on the text, as a result of which dots appear around it to change the size. We clamp one such point, which is located in the middle on either side, and drag it in the opposite direction;

• Click on the text, after which the “Format” tab appears in the toolbar, highlighted in a certain color and labeled “Working with WordArt objects.” Go to it and find the “Rotate” tool (with the image of two triangles with an arrow).

Adobe Photoshop

We proceed in the same way as with the image. But first you need to write the text. In the toolbar, click on the “T” button (or the Shift+T combination), click on the sheet with the cursor and type the text. Then go to the “Image” tab, “Rotate Image” and “Flip Canvas”. But before you make a mirror image of what you have written, you need this particular layer to be selected, otherwise something else will be reflected.

In Word every day around the world a huge number of text documents. For some, this is a work report, a thesis, an essay, course work. And every second user is faced with adding pictures to a document. Although many, to the best of their ability or ignorance, omit this moment. It just seems like inserting a picture takes a long time. And if you suddenly need to make a mirror image of a picture, then the older generation will probably ask a friend or loved one for help, or maybe skip this step altogether, citing lack of time. Let's figure out the problem that has arisen together.

Reflection of the image "mirror"

You can mirror your drawing using the following steps. Initially, insert the image into the Word document:

To display an image you need:

Horizontal reflection of the picture

There are situations when it is necessary to change the direction of the drawing. In this case, it is necessary to change the direction of Santa Claus in left side. To flip the image horizontally you need to do the following:

Note. If you need to place two pictures next to the original result as in the screenshot above, you need to copy the picture and then set the desired reflection.

Setting to Mirror a Pattern

To achieve the desired effect when reflecting a photo, you can adjust all the parameters manually. Click on the photo and go to the “Format” tab.

In the “Picture Format” window, set the desired type of “Blanks”, for example “Medium... touch”.

Note. You can mirror a photo with a shift of several points from the original picture; to do this, you need to select the “Reflection at 4 pt or 8 pt” option.

Any shift can be observed even with the active Format Picture window open. To do this, move the parameters window to the left or right of the image that is located on the Word document sheet.

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We will make a mirror image in Photoshop in a few minutes. I will describe each step in detail and illustrate everything with pictures. This effect is very often used by designers and photo processors.

I'll show you how to make a mirror image using these fruits as an example. Open the photo in Photoshop.

First we need to select the fruits. To do this, use the Lasso tool, it can be found in the toolbar.

By the way, I recorded a special free video course on Photoshop on the topic "How to highlight in Photoshop". You can download it at . After watching this course, you will easily learn how to select any objects in Photoshop.

Selecting fruits. Upper part You can highlight it with a white background - no problem. But you should try to highlight the bottom one evenly, without unnecessary background, just fruits. Since this part will lie under the image of fruit and serve as a reflection.

Press CTRL+C to copy the selected image. After that, press CTRL+V to paste the image, it will automatically appear on a new layer. This is how we duplicated the image of the fruit. From this copy we will make a reflection.

Now press CTRL+T and the transformation form will appear. Right-click on the fruit, a menu will appear - select "Flip Vertical". This way we turned the image upside down.

Move the reflected fruits down.

Next you need to place them under the fruits that are on top. Press CTRL+T, the transformation form will appear. Move the cursor to the corner of this form, you will see how the cursor will take the form to rotate the image. Now hold down the left mouse button and rotate the image. Turn it so that it stands exactly under the fruit, as if serving as their continuation.

Now set the opacity to 40% for this layer so that the specular reflection is realistic and a little transparent.

It will turn out like this:

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Sometimes you need to get pictures in mirror image and there are several options for this simple ways using standard or third party software, as well as various online services. In this article, we will consider all of the options listed.

How to make a mirror image in Paint

Any operating system Windows comes pre-installed with the graphic editor Paint, which is where we'll start the list. Search bar you need to write “paint”⇒run the application.

After selecting the desired image on your computer, File ⇒ Open.

Click on the Image tab ⇒ Rotate ⇒ Flip Horizontal or Vertical, depending on the need.

How to make a mirror image in Word

The Word text editor is probably more familiar to many than the graphical one, and you can do a lot of things with it besides generating documents. So:

Create a new document or open an existing one

Insert a picture

Right-click on it

A menu will open where you select the Picture Format tab.

Here we are interested in three points of Rotation around an axis, but in this case, for mirroring, select the “X” item and enter 180°, after which the goal will be achieved.

Mirroring in Photoshop

This method is also very fast and simple like the previous two, but it implies the presence graphic editor“Photoshop” which not everyone has in their arsenal.

Launch the program, insert a picture by dragging it or File ⇒ Open ⇒ Select a picture.

Edit ⇒ Transform ⇒ Flip Horizontal. At this point, all actions are completed, the drawing will take the desired form.

How to do mirror image online

If you don’t have any of the above programs, then it doesn’t matter, there are special online services and I’ll show you one of them now. Let's move on to this link to the site, a window will open:

Click the Browse button to search for an image on your PC

Flip: Direction selection

Leave the rest as is, click OK.

In this window you can immediately Download the processed image, Open for viewing or go back.

Well, all four methods shown in the article are very easy to manage and not time consuming; everything is done with a few clicks in less than a minute. This concludes today's topic until we meet again.

P.S Thanks to mirror reflection, the picture is naturally unique, provided that it has not already been flipped over.

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