Operations on Bitmaps: Mirroring a Picture

To mirror a picture, get each of its pixels from one side of its horizontal position and transfer it to the opposite side of the horizon position. The vertical position of each pixel stays the same. This can be done as follows:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace Mirror
{
    public partial class Exercise : Form
    {
        public Exercise()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private void btnMirror_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            Graphics graph = pbxSource.CreateGraphics();
            Bitmap bmpSource = (Bitmap)pbxSource.Image;
            Bitmap bmpDestination =
                new Bitmap(pbxDestination.ClientSize.Width,
                           pbxDestination.ClientSize.Height);

            int width = bmpSource.Width;
            int height = bmpSource.Height;

            for (int x = 0; x < width; x++)
            {
                for (int y = 0; y < height; y++)
                {
                    Color clr = bmpSource.GetPixel(x, y);
                    bmpDestination.SetPixel(width - x - 1, y, clr);
                }
            }

            pbxDestination.Image = bmpDestination;
        }
    }
}

Instead of writing you own code, to assist you with picture mirroring, the Bitmap class inherits a method named RotateFlip from its parent Image class. Its syntax is:

public void RotateFlip(RotateFlipType rotateFlipType);

This function takes one argument that specifies the mirroring option through the RotateFlipType enumeration. The members of  the RotateFlipType enumeration that can be used to mirror a picture are RotateNoneFlipX and Rotate180FlipY. Here is an example of mirroring a picture:

private void btnManipulate_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
        Bitmap bmpPicture = new Bitmap("person.jpg");
        bmpPicture.RotateFlip(RotateFlipType.RotateNoneFlipX);
        CreateGraphics().DrawImage(bmpPicture, 10, 10);
}

When this method is called, the bitmap horizontal direction would be changed.