Обзор Google Photos finally lets you fix all your mirror-image selfies

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• Google Photos started rolling out a tool to horizontally flip pics last September.
• Today Google shares that this option is broadly available to Android users.
• There’s still no ETA on the flip button coming to Photos on iOS.

How many times has this happened to you: You’re taking a photo with your phone’s front-facing selfie cam, but when you go to share it you realize that all the text in the image is backwards, like you’re looking in a mirror? Plenty of phones flip the image we see from our font-facers in their viewfinders, which makes taking a selfie feel a whole lot more natural. But if the phone also saves your pic that way, you’re going to see this mirror-image effect. Thankfully, Google Photos has a handy way to take care of this annoying little issue.

You’d think that horizontally flipping an image would be a day-one feature of an app with editing tools like Google Photos, but for years this option was absent — you could crop or rotate your pics all day, but had to look elsewhere for help with a simple flip. Last September, we finally spotted Google doing something about this long-standing oversight, as Photos added a new “flip” button to crop controls.