# Flipping images in flash

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**Created:** [May 22, 2007, 3:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flipping-images-in-flash/226603 "2007-05-22T15:36:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![mentega](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@mentega](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mentega)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 3:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flipping-images-in-flash/226603/1 "2007-05-22T15:36:57Z")

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hi everyone, im just starting to learn action script here and i’m trying to get an image flipped so when i move to the left, the character is facing left and other way around, normally i would do this easily on director using rotation + skew property which is not available in flash:p

my question is how you could flip an image using action script, i tried using the \_xscales but it doesn’t work properly because the flash is flipping my image with registration point on the left edge. making the image flipped but also changed its \_x

can someone give me some help with this? like using script to center out the registration point ? 🙂