How to Flip a Logitech Webcam Image

The short answer

A Logitech webcam image can usually be flipped in one of three places: Logitech's companion app for your camera model, the settings of the video-call app you are using, or a video tool such as OBS Studio that can transform the picture and pass it to other apps as a virtual camera. Which one works depends on your camera model, its software and what you mean by "flip."

Before changing anything, decide which of these problems you actually have, because each one has a different fix:

• Mirrored (left and right swapped): text you hold up looks backwards. This is often only how your own preview is displayed, and other people may already see you correctly.
• Upside down: the camera is mounted inverted, such as hanging under a shelf or monitor. You need a 180-degree rotation, or a vertical flip combined with a horizontal flip.
• Sideways or portrait: the camera is turned 90 degrees to get a tall, vertical frame. You need a 90-degree rotation, and the app receiving the video must also handle a portrait image.

Mirroring: check whether anything is actually wrong

Many video-call apps show your self-view mirrored by default, because a mirror image feels natural when you look at yourself. The mirror setting usually changes only your own preview, not the video sent to others. If writing on your shirt or a sign looks reversed to you, the other participants may still be seeing it the right way round.

To find out what others see, use a test that shows the transmitted video rather than your preview: record a short test meeting and play it back, join the call from a second device, or ask someone on the call to read a word you hold up. If the word reads correctly to them, no fix is needed; you can simply turn off self-view mirroring if the reversed preview bothers you.

What to do, step by step

Before you start

• Connect the webcam and confirm your computer detects it. Detection only proves the device is recognized, not that video is reaching your app.
• Close other apps that may be using the camera. On many systems only one app at a time can capture from a webcam, which can make settings or previews appear blank.
• If the camera is upside down only because of how it is mounted, consider remounting it upright first. That fixes the image everywhere at once without depending on any software setting.

Option 1: Logitech's own software

Logitech offers different companion apps for different product lines, and over the years these have included Logi Tune, Logitech G HUB and Logitech Capture. Install the app Logitech lists for your exact model, open the camera's settings and look for controls labeled flip, mirror or rotate.

This guide could not confirm which Logitech models and app versions include flip or rotation controls, so check your model's support page or the app itself. If a control exists, change it while watching the app's live preview. The change has worked when the preview shows the corrected orientation. Then open your call app and check again, because a setting in Logitech's app does not always carry over to other software.

Option 2: The video-call app's settings

Most call apps let you control mirroring of your self-view, and some also let you rotate the camera. In Zoom, for example, the video settings include a "Mirror my video" option, and the camera preview there has a rotate button that turns the image in 90-degree steps. Microsoft Teams provides a mirror option in its device settings and pre-join screen. Menu names and placement change between versions, so look under video or camera settings if you don't see them where expected.

• Open the app's video or camera settings and select your Logitech camera.
• Toggle the mirror option, or use rotate if your image is upside down or sideways.
• Watch the preview update. For mirroring, remember that the preview may not match what others receive.
• Confirm the result using a test recording, a second device or a colleague, as described above.

The limitation of this option is that the fix only applies inside that one app. If you use several call apps, you may need to repeat it in each, or use Option 3.

Option 3: OBS Studio and a virtual camera

OBS Studio is free video software that can flip or rotate any camera feed and then present the corrected picture to other apps as a "virtual camera," a software camera that call apps can select like a real one. This is the most dependable route when Logitech's software and your call app lack the control you need, and it is especially useful for portrait setups.

• In OBS, add a Video Capture Device source and choose your Logitech webcam.
• Right-click the source in the preview or the Sources list and open Transform.
• Choose Flip Horizontal to fix mirroring, Flip Vertical together with Flip Horizontal (or two 90-degree rotations) to fix an upside-down image, or Rotate 90 degrees for a sideways or portrait-mounted camera.
• For a portrait image, adjust the canvas size in OBS's video settings so the tall picture isn't letterboxed or cropped.
• Click Start Virtual Camera.
• In your call or recording app, select the OBS virtual camera instead of the Logitech webcam.

It has worked when the call app's preview shows the corrected image coming from the OBS virtual camera. Keep OBS running during the call, because closing it stops the virtual camera feed.

Portrait rotation: a limitation to know about

Rotating the image is only half of a portrait setup. Many video-call apps display participants in a landscape frame, so a correctly rotated vertical image may appear with bars at the sides or be cropped. Whether you get a true tall frame depends on the receiving app, not on the webcam. Portrait video tends to suit recordings and vertical-video platforms better than standard meeting layouts. If the call app crops your rotated picture, check its layout or framing options, or keep the camera in landscape for meetings.

How to confirm the fix fully worked

Each check below confirms something different, so it helps to know which ones you've covered:

Check | What it confirms | What it leaves untested

Camera appears in the app's device list | The system and app can see the camera | Whether video is actually captured

Live preview shows the corrected orientation | Video is captured and the transform is applied locally | Whether others receive the same orientation, especially for mirroring

Test recording or second-device view | What is transmitted or saved | Picture quality on other people's connections and screens

A participant reads text you hold up | The orientation others see in a real call | Nothing further for orientation; video quality is a separate question

A correct orientation says nothing about sharpness, lighting or call quality. If the picture is the right way round but blurry or dark, troubleshoot that separately.

Gaps in this guide

No model-specific evidence was available for this guide. It doesn't confirm which Logitech webcams or software versions include flip or rotate controls, and app menus may have changed since these instructions were written. No technical thresholds or input-level targets apply to flipping an image, so none are given. If a setting described here is missing, check your camera model's support documentation and your call app's help pages for the current location of video orientation options.