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Flipping

Flipping sounds like something you'd do with a pancake, rather than a picture, but the general effect is the same. When you flip the pancake, you reverse it so the other side cooks. When you flip the image, you reverse it so you see a mirror image. You can flip horizontally or vertically. Figure 4.13 shows both.

Figure 4.13. The top pair of words has been flipped horizontally, whereas the bottom pair has been flipped vertically.

Flipping is different from rotating because it changes the up/down or left/right orientation of the image. Of course, sometimes you might need to do both to get the image or selected object oriented the way you ...