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Cloudinary’s most popular image processing add-ons
Perhaps some of you readers that have been around for a while remember our add-ons launch 2 years back, when we introduced a number of third party image processing products, fully integrated into the...
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Facial attribute detection with Microsoft's Face API
Many of the photos displayed on the internet these days are of people. If your website or mobile application displays photos that include people, you will want to make sure that their faces are...
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Cloudinary takes starring role enabling Moviepilot to shine spotlight on core...
Moviepilot Inc. is a media company that hosts a website and social publishing platform designed to bring together movie and TV fans, and help studios trigger, fuel and amplify positive conversations...
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How to use conditions to dynamically manipulate images
It's great to have the capability to manipulate images on the fly by using dynamic URLs to customize the images to fit the graphic design of your site or mobile application. However, what if you want...
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Why JPEG is like a photocopier
If you make a copy of a copy of a copy, the quality will deteriorate with every ‘generation’. This problem is called ‘generation loss’. It is not difficult to understand why this happens with actual...
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Cloudinary delivers holistic prescription to mindbodygreen for managing...
mindbodygreen is a digital media brand dedicated to health and wellness. The company’s website bring together leaders in the wellness world, best-selling authors, fitness experts, trusted healers,...
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Unlocking value from digital assets with content categorization
This is a guest post by Georgi Kadrev, co-founder and CEO, Imagga. Imagga develops and offers technologies, services, and online tools for visual image recognition. Cloudinary provides an add-on for...
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Dynamically generating ZIP files with one line of code
As a developer, you want to allow your users to download multiple files in a single click. An easy way to download multiple files and share them is to generate a ZIP file. When images are involved, you...
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Effective strategies for improving web content personalization
At the Intersection of IT and Marketing Personalization of web content is becoming increasingly important for businesses to gain – and maintain – their competitive advantage. Web personalization is...
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What matters most to web users might surprise you
The most common frustrations voiced by people when visiting a website are the time it takes for pages to load and the amount of bandwidth some sites eat from their monthly mobile plans. What...
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Optimizing web performance and your bottom line
Time is money Patience is not a virtue for website visitors and online shoppers. Every fraction of a second counts when it comes to keeping – or losing – a visitor to your website. Loading time is...
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Introducing smart cropping, intelligent quality selection and automated...
Every image is unique and every one of your website visitors is different. In a perfect world, we'd like to adapt each image individually to be "just right" for every user. With "just right" being...
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Cloudinary WOWs with full automation at Velocity web performance conference
Attending our first Velocity Web Performance Conference, we wanted to WOW attendees with the Cloudinary solution. And WOW them we did, with the announcement of our new “Images Solved” enhancements,...
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Simplifying image rich website development - interactive demo
Developing a great website and maintaining it can be a challenging and time-consuming task, even for the most talented developer. You need to meet graphic design requirements for any device according...
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Conference season is in full swing: Attracting attention at AWS and YGLF in...
If it’s June, Cloudinary must be in the throes of conference season. In a recent blog post, we discussed how we WOW’d the crowd with our fully automated image management tools, exhibiting at Velocity...
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One pixel is worth three thousand words
A couple of months ago while taking a break from implementing cool new features like q_auto and g_auto, I was joking in our team chat about how well various image formats “compress” one-pixel images....
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A one-color image is worth two thousand words
In part one (One pixel is worth three thousand words) of this turned-to-be-two-part blog post, I discussed one-pixel images and how well different image formats “compress” these images. I was surprised...
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10 great jQuery sliders - and 5 ways to build one yourself
Cloudinary offers a cloud-based image and video management solution to help developers manage and optimize their images. Because images are important to you and to us, we wanted to share our thoughts...
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Smart automatic image cropping: Maybe you CAN always get what you want
The Rolling Stones claim, “You can’t always get what you want”. And when your application needs to crop hundreds or thousands of images to specific sizes within a strictly defined UI design, that...
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The holy grail of image optimization OR balancing visual quality and file size
One of the most important things to know about compressing image files is that a smaller file size comes at the cost of a lower image quality. How much lower, and whether low enough to make a...
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