Invert colors (negative)
Create the negative of any image in one click — or turn a scanned strip of old film back into a positive. Instant preview and download.
JPG, PNG, WebP — scanned film negatives welcome. Nothing gets uploaded.
What a digital negative is good for
The most practical use is rescuing old film: photograph or scan a black-and-white negative, invert the colors, and you instantly get the original positive image back. With color film the result is a solid starting point, but expect a bluish cast — that's the orange mask built into the film base, and you'll want to fix it later with a white balance adjustment. Inverting is also a handy trick for looking at an image with fresh eyes (retouchers use it to spot halos and flaws), and it makes for striking graphic effects on posters and cover art.
How the inversion works
Every pixel is described by three values — red, green, and blue — each between 0 and 255. The tool replaces each value with its complement (255 minus the value): black becomes white, a blue sky shifts to orange, and so on. PNG transparency is left untouched. The operation is perfectly reversible: hit "Invert again" and you're back to the original image with zero quality loss, because the file is saved as PNG with no lossy compression.