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Selfie Camera that shows non-mirror preview?

It will depend on the phone and camera app. On my phone when you open the front facing camera and then tap on settings i have a "save as flipped" option which either saves the image as it is on the screen or mirrors it.

The image on screen is a mirrored image (like the phone is acting as a mirror). The saved picture is by default not mirrored - in other words, it appears the way other people see you, not how you look in a mirror. I'm looking for an app that can flip on -screen preview image so it looks the same as the final picture, not the mirrored image.
 
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It does the opposite of what I'm talking about. Yes, the image and the photo are the same, but they are both mirrored!
Again from my selfies to even my hand, and other objects, they are what other people see me as, nothing more, the image is non a reflectable too.
Because my right eye is crossed eye and left one is facing inward, they both are exactly like that in each image.

 
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On the Motorola Moto Z2 Force I retried two apps .

Camera JB+ ... it is mirrored on the screen and not mirrored on the printed image.

Moto Z2 Camera ... it is mirrored on the screen and not mirrored on the printed image. It has an option to save either version in the printed image. It only shows the mirrored version on the screen.


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Just to clarify, the first picture is a screenshot of the camera preview image. The second is the actual picture that it takes. Although I have fairly symmetrical features, I still look different between the two images. I usually use the selfie camera to take pictures of me with other people, It makes it easier to frame the picture if it previews the way it will end up in the picture because the relative positioning of everyone in the picture makes a difference.

My phone is a Motorola Moto Z, using the stock camera app.

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I just clicked "view attachment" to see the pictures I uploaded in my previous post but got the following message: You do not have permission to view this page or perform this action. Why can't I see the pictures I posted?

I get that too. Not sure what happened. I'll ask an admin to take a look.
 
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I just clicked "view attachment" to see the pictures I uploaded in my previous post but got the following message: You do not have permission to view this page or perform this action. Why can't I see the pictures I posted?

I get that too. Not sure what happened. I'll ask an admin to take a look.

What are the file sizes/types? Try uploading them again. Nothing should be blocking them, but I've seen weirdness with attachments before.
 
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I'll try again. The screenshot was saved as a PNG and was very large, but not the camera shot.
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I searched across several forums and found questions going back to 2012 about flipping the selfie preview. The consensus seems to be not only that a non-mirrored preview is counter-intuitive, but pretty much there's no camera/selfie app that does that. Most current apps give the option how to save the image, but not preview it. :thinking:

I would have thought some camera app developer might have included it as an option, but I'm not finding any. :(

The image on the left is how saving with "flip" off and also how the preview looks. The image on the right is saved as "flipped".

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I searched across several forums and found questions going back to 2012 about flipping the selfie preview. The consensus seems to be not only that a non-mirrored preview is counter-intuitive, but pretty much there's no camera/selfie app that does that. Most current apps give the option how to save the image, but not preview it. :thinking:

I would have thought some camera app developer might have included it as an option, but I'm not finding any. :(

The image on the left is how saving with "flip" off and also how the preview looks. The image on the right is saved as "flipped".

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I would have thought it would be the other way round (i.e., "flipped" would be the mirror image as seen in the preview). Anyway, the "right" (non-mirrored) picture looks better. The default for my camera is non-mirrored, but it has the option "selfie photo mirror".
 
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