Camera Raw/Bridge: Ability to flip images

Like the idea

It's not currently possible in Camera Raw, but in Lightroom, go to Develop module > Photo menu > Flip Vertical/Horizontal.

This is your best workaround:

You need to reset your ACR preferences in Photoshop to open all ACR generated items as Smart Objects. When you process a DNG or raw file through ACR, when complete, it will open as a Smart Object instead of a bitmap on the background layer. Smart Objects can be flipped by using Edit>Transform>Flip Horizontal or Vertical.

This will retain the ACR-editing characteristics and allow flipping without rendering a flat file.

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Non Destructive Flip View Horizontally.

Flip view without changing the actual image. This makes it a lot easier for me to stop using photoshop. I always feel like Adobe doesn't care about the tons of digital artists and illustrators who use this software.

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Flip images in ACR?!.

Hi Adobe,

is there a way to flip/mirroring images in ACR?

ACR
can read (from the xml) and display mirrored images edited in Lightroom! But
in ACR there is simply no button and/or menu available. Could you please
add this functionality?

Thanks!

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Bridge: Ability flip horizontal/vertically in Bridge.

I have always been surprised that while it is possible to rotate an image in Bridge/Raw through 90deg, it is not possible to flip an image horizontally or vertically. This would be very useful

Orientation is actually stored in the XMP metadata as an NS_TIFF property. This property can be changed with a script in Bridge.
Save the following as a text file with ".jsx" file extension and place it in the Bridge Startup Scripts folder. Relaunch Bridge and when you run the script from the Tools menu, simply select a RAW file (CR2, NEF, or ARW) and click the desired button to flip your file.

Feel free to modify this script (CC Attribution). I'm not responsible if your computer goes up in flames. Etc.

I wrote this on the Mac and haven't tested on Windows. There are some layout bugs but it should work ok.

//Written by David M. Converse ©2018 Released under CC Attribution License
if(BridgeTalk.appName == "bridge"){
    var newCommand = new MenuElement("command", "Flip", "at the end of Tools");
}
newCommand.function (){
    flip ();
}
  
function flip(){
    var fPalette = new Window('palette', 'Flip');
    fPalette.preferredSize = [200, 160];
    fPalette.frameLocation = [100, 100];
    var fpnl = fPalette.add('panel', [10,10,150,120]);
    fpnl.fBtn = fpnl.add('button', [15, 25, 130, 45], 'Vertical');
    fpnl.fBtn2 = fpnl.add('button', [15, 70, 130, 90], 'Horizontal');
    var dir = "v"
    fPalette.show();
    
    fpnl.fBtn. function(){
        dir = "v";
        meta();
    }
    fpnl.fBtn2. function(){
        dir = "h";
        meta();
    }
        
    function meta(){
        var thumbs = app.document.getSelection("cr2, nef, arw");
        var counter = "";
        if(thumbs.length != 0){
            if (ExternalObject.AdobeXMPScript == undefined)  ExternalObject.AdobeXMPScript = new ExternalObject("lib:AdobeXMPScript");
            for(var i = 0;i < thumbs.length;i++){
                if(thumbs[i].spec instanceof File){
                    var thumb = thumbs[i]; 
                    var xmp = new XMPMeta(thumb.synchronousMetadata.serialize());
                    var oldOr = xmp.getProperty(XMPConst.NS_TIFF, "Orientation");
                    var newor = 1;
                    if(dir == "v"){
                        switch(oldOr.value){
                            case "1":
                                newor = 2;
                                break;
                            case "2":
                                newor = 1;
                                break;
                            case "3":
                                newor = 4;
                                break;
                            case "4":
                                newor = 3;
                                break;
                            case "5":
                                newor = 6;
                                break;
                            case "6":
                                newor = 5;
                                break;
                            case "7":
                                newor = 8;
                                break;
                            case "8":
                                newor = 7;
                        }
                    }
                    if(dir == "h"){
                        switch(oldOr.value){
                            case "1":
                                newor = 4;
                                break;
                            case "2":
                                newor = 3;
                                break;
                            case "3":
                                newor = 2;
                                break;
                            case "4":
                                newor = 1;
                                break;
                            case "5":
                                newor = 8;
                                break;
                            case "6":
                                newor = 7;
                                break;
                            case "7":
                                newor = 6;
                                break;
                            case "8":
                                newor = 5;
                        }
                    }
                    xmp.setProperty(XMPConst.NS_TIFF, "Orientation", newor);
                    var updatedPacket = xmp.serialize(XMPConst.SERIALIZE_OMIT_PACKET_WRAPPER | XMPConst.SERIALIZE_USE_COMPACT_FORMAT);
                    thumb.metadata = new Metadata(updatedPacket);
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

In Adobe Camera AW 10.2 you are now able to FLIP images: Option (or ALT) key ROTATE buttons.

You can now do this in Adobe Camera Raw! Open Camera Raw in Bridge and look at the rotate buttons on the tool bar. Holding down ALT or OPT you will see them change to a mirror horizontal and vertical button. Just click and you're done. Note: does not work in Photoshop's built-in version, but you don't need it there!!

Thank you . I imagine that was written somewhere in the depths of the release notes.

It is wonderful that we have the capability to flip. But unfortunately Bridge does not honor those settings in slideshow or quick view. Would be great if the feature were implemented completely.

I noticed that Bridge does not completely honour the flipping, which is a shame and hopefully Mr Adobe will sort out shortly. :)