Flip the colors. Print blue.
Six negative modes — pure 35mm invert, cyanotype, blueprint, X-ray, darkroom red, sepia negative. Intensity slider for half-strength blends, contrast control. Nothing uploads. For real cyanotypes, buy paper and a UV box.
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Six places negative beats positive
- 01 for 35mm look
A film-negative version of a digital photo
Pure Negative mode flips colors the way a real 35mm film negative does. Use it as the artwork for a music release, a band poster, or to demonstrate the analog aesthetic. Pair with Film Grain at low strength for the strip-of-film feel.
- 02 for botanical
A cyanotype-style print of plants or flowers
Cyanotypes (Anna Atkins, 1843) are the OG blue prints — silhouettes of plants on UV-exposed paper. Run a flower or fern photo through Cyanotype mode and you've got a digital version of an Anna Atkins specimen plate. Print on watercolor paper.
- 03 for plans
A blueprint-feel architectural drawing
Blueprint mode pushes everything toward deep blue with white linework. On a sketch, line drawing, or hand-drawn floorplan, it produces an authentic engineering-blueprint feel. Frame for a workshop wall.
- 04 for medical aesthetic
X-ray-feel imagery for design projects
X-ray mode produces a high-contrast B&W invert — bones-and-shadows feel without an actual X-ray. Useful for medical-themed editorial, horror movie posters, or designed visual metaphors of 'see-through'.
- 05 for drama
A darkroom red-safelight feel
Darkroom mode tints everything red, mimicking the safelight under which black-and-white prints are developed. Layer over a portrait for a moody, photo-school-aesthetic shot. Good for creative-process content (behind-the-scenes of an artist's work).
- 06 for art
A vintage sepia-negative for a journal
Sepia Negative mode inverts and warms — looks like a damaged tintype or a botanical-illustration negative. Great for journal-page art elements, scrapbook backgrounds, or atmospheric mood-board pins.
Frequently asked
Does the photo upload anywhere? +
No. The pixel inversion runs in your browser. Your photo never touches our servers — we don't run an image pipeline at all.
How is this different from Duotone? +
Duotone maps photo luminance to a two-color gradient (any two colors you pick). Photo Negative inverts colors first, then optionally tints. The starting point is opposite: Duotone treats the photo as tonal info; Negative treats it as color info to flip.
What's a cyanotype? +
A photographic process from 1842 — coat paper with iron salts, lay an object on top, expose to UV light. Where light hits, the paper turns deep cyan; where the object blocks light, paper stays white. This tool fakes the look digitally.
Why does my color photo go grey in X-ray mode? +
X-ray mode strips color entirely — it converts the inverted result to luminance-only and crushes contrast. That's the point: real X-rays show only density, not color. For a tinted invert, use Cyanotype or Darkroom modes.
What does the intensity slider actually do? +
Blends the inverted result with the original. At 100%, you get pure inversion. At 50%, half-and-half — the photo looks faded and surreal. At 0%, the original photo passes through unchanged.
Can I print these for a wall? +
Yes — JPG export at full source resolution. Cyanotype and Blueprint modes print especially well on cream paper (the slight off-white softens the deep blue). Pure Negative prints best on glossy photo paper for that authentic 35mm-strip feel.
now what?
A few ways to present a negative
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Add Text to Photo
Sign the print in handwritten type.
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Photo Mat & Border
Print inside a thick cream mat for a gallery feel.
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Drop Shadow
Float the negative over paper for a portfolio mockup.
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Duotone Effect
Push further into a flat two-tone treatment.
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Pinterest Pin Maker
Use the negative as a Pinterest pin hero.
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Polaroid Maker
Wrap the negative in a paper Polaroid for contrast.
OpenOther free tools nearby
Background Remover
Cut the background out of any photo in one click.
OpenBackground Replace
Drop your subject onto paper, gradient, or your own backdrop photo.
OpenText Behind Subject
Drop a word behind your subject, magazine-cover style.
OpenPhoto Filters
Nine presets, one photo — vintage to cinematic.
OpenFilm Grain
Tri-X, Kodak Gold, Lomo — pick a roll, see the grain.
OpenHalftone Effect
Comic dots, risograph red, punk-zine textures.
OpenPencil Sketch
Photo to graphite drawing in two clicks.
OpenDuotone Effect
Map photo to two colors — Spotify, sunset, riso.
OpenTilt-Shift Effect
Make real cities look like tabletop dioramas.
OpenLight Leak
Sunset, lomo red, golden hour — bleed light into corners.
OpenRGB Glitch
VHS bands, anaglyph 3D, CRT scanlines, chromatic aberration.
OpenASCII Art
Convert any photo to typed characters.
OpenPhoto Mosaic
Photo as tiles with grout-color gaps.
OpenAdjust
Brightness, contrast, saturation, hue, blur — seven sliders.
OpenPolaroid Maker
Any photo, wrapped in paper with a handwritten caption.
OpenPhoto Strip Maker
Four photos, B&W mode, handwritten caption.
OpenDiptych Maker
Two photos, side-by-side or stacked.
OpenPhoto Mat & Border
Paper mat for prints, journals, framed walls.
OpenShape Crop
Circle, heart, star, arch — pick a cookie cutter.
OpenVintage Postcard
Greetings caption, faux stamp, postmark, paper texture.
OpenDrop Shadow
Float a photo over paper for portfolios and mockups.
OpenPinterest Pin Maker
Drop a photo, type a title, pick a layout. 1000×1500 native.
OpenSocial Banner
X, LinkedIn, or YouTube cover with title overlay.
OpenAdd Text to Photo
Handwritten captions, magazine headers, or a quick scribble.
OpenWashi Tape Overlay
Stick paper-mood tape onto any photo.
OpenVintage Date Stamp
LED red, Kodak yellow, camcorder amber.
OpenPhoto Watermark
Corner sign-off or full diagonal tile.
OpenSticker Overlay
Hearts, stars, flowers, smileys, paper tags, HELLO labels.
OpenCrop & Resize
Square for IG, 9:16 for stories, 2:3 for Pinterest.
OpenFlip & Rotate
Mirror a selfie, un-tilt a scan, turn a sideways shot upright.
OpenHEIC to JPG / PNG
iPhone photos that open on everything.
OpenBlur & Pixelate
Hide faces, plates, addresses — drag a patch over the spot.
OpenEXIF Stripper
Remove GPS, camera info, timestamps before posting.
OpenImage Compressor
Smaller JPG, WebP, or PNG — same look, less file.
OpenColor Palette
Pull 5 hex codes out of any photo.
OpenQR Code Generator
Print-ready QR for menus, invites, journals, vCards.
OpenColor Replace
Eyedropper a color in your photo, swap it for another.
OpenCoat paper. Wait for sun.
Real cyanotypes are made by coating watercolor paper with potassium ferricyanide and ferric ammonium citrate, exposing under UV (sunlight or a UV box), and rinsing in water. Permanent, archival, and astonishingly blue. About $30 in chemistry to start.