How to Use Displacement Maps to Transform Images
Cloudinary offers a wide variety of transformations that enable you to to manipulate images on the fly by using dynamic URLs. Web and mobile developers use these transformations on their images to...
View ArticleThree Easy Ways to Improve Video Storytelling
Video storytelling is one of the most effective means of conveying messages to your audience. It’s also a popular marketing tool because most people are automatically drawn to video. In eCommerce, if...
View ArticleThe Human Side of Software Development
Part 1 describes the importance of engendering support from external developers to ensure success of innovative technologies. Part 2 delineates what energizes and inspires developers. Part 3...
View ArticleSharing Visual Information: Eight Reasons to Engage With Your Audience...
According to Wyzowl’s The State of Video Marketing 2019 survey, 68 percent of the respondents say that they learn about new products or services by watching short videos. That’s a significant...
View ArticleSimple Steps to Make Your Site Accessible With Cloudinary
Web accessibility (a11y) is about gaining an insight into— What your users see or hear when they open your app. How they understand your app through interpretation. How they can use your app with ease....
View ArticleConverting Videos to GIFs in Kotlin-Based Android Apps With Cloudinary
Among the image formats available today, Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) works for both static and animated images. A popular use of GIF images—commonly called GIFs—is to repeatedly loop motions,...
View ArticleDeveloper Experience for a Modern Web: JAMstack Delivers
Off and on, the model of architecting software shifts. Over time, programming principles, best practices, toolkits evolve to accommodate the contemporary way of building fast, resilient, and reliable...
View ArticleTaking Cloudinary’s Magento Extension to the Next Level
Having an eCommerce platform that both provides a seamless and satisfactory shopping experience, while also serving as a powerful back-office system is crucial to business success today.As a leading...
View Article“Not Your Father’s” Online Video Platform
Online video platforms (OVPs) first launched in the late 1990s and early 2000s with a similar promise to the once-iconic automobile brand: “Not your father’s Oldsmobile” campaign. However, as OVPs...
View ArticleSeven Ways to Make Video Easier With a Dynamic Video Platform
Increasingly, companies large and small, across all industries are enhancing their customer and brand experiences through video. We’ve just launched our dynamic video platform and shared our thoughts...
View ArticleAutomatic Video Transcoding
Delivering video files to users can be a much more complex undertaking than many people stop to consider. There are a large variety of video formats and codecs to choose between, and various...
View ArticleNew Auto-Quality Setting for Content-Aware Video Compression
It’s widely known that video is the most effective way of communicating your brand to your audience. It is also an extremely varied medium. Take a look at the existing videos in your media library,...
View ArticleApplying Your Own Duotone Effect Filter With Cloudinary
The trendy duotone effect is ubiquitous in today’s websites and illustrations for good reason: it highlights content well, rendering it pleasing to the eye, especially on minimal web platforms. The sky...
View ArticleCloudinary Offers Continual Support for Scene7 Customers
With the imminent shutdown of Scene7 after rebranding by Adobe as part of Dynamic Media, dozens of leading eCommerce companies, among them the world’s top three eCommerce brands, have migrated to...
View ArticleSpotlighted at Dreamforce '19: Cloudinary's Integration With Salesforce...
We are excited to be at Dreamforce 2019 (booth #1912) in San Francisco this week meeting with partners, customers, and industry colleagues on the power of digital experiences and dynamic media...
View ArticleRe-creating the Color Pop Effect on Google Photos With Cloudinary
One photo can morph into a thousand photos through a simple application of bits and pieces of transformation effects. A few examples of the common effects are Black and White, Duotone, Blurs and Fades,...
View ArticleBoost Your Product Knowledge at the Cloudinary Academy
When I first learned about Cloudinary back in 2013, it literally seemed like web-development magic. You upload your images and videos to it and, in short order, Cloudinary has served them in the most...
View ArticleAdding Structure to Your Asset Metadata
Keeping all your digital assets well organized in a single repository requires an effective way to find what you need when you need it. Otherwise, each and every task that your team performs on those...
View ArticleCloudinary Teams Up With Shutterstock to Make Visual Storytelling Even Easier
Companies across all industries rely on images to tell stories, connect with audiences and sell products. In many ways, it’s never been easier to connect directly with consumers. On the other hand,...
View ArticleOur 2019 Holiday Gift Guide (and we hope our families are reading this post)
Tis the season for gift guides, wish lists and hopeful letters to Santa.Among the things that make Cloudinary such a great place to work are all the amazing brands we get to call our customers. Should...
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