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Leveraging a Modern DAM for Powerful Workflow Efficiencies
At a Cloudinary-sponsored webinar held in July, Russ Barr, director of digital asset management (DAM) at Cloudinary; and Mark Katzin, VP of creative services at Straub Collaborative, elaborated on how...
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Automating File Upload and Sharing
As computer users, we constantly upload files, transferring them from one system to another over a network. You can perform uploads on a terminal, such as through the SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)...
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MythBusters, Part 1: “Automated UI Tests Are Unstable”
Even though most people agree that testing software UI is important, many believe that automated tests are slow and unstable. Consequently, many technology companies prefer manual testing. I'll...
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User-Generated Content, Part 2: Images and Their Transformations
User-generated content (UGC) can take many forms, the two main ones being images and videos. Part 1 of this series explains the basics of UGC and its benefits to e-commerce. Here in part 2, we’ll show...
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Community Spotlight: A Second U Foundation
I was first introduced to A Second U Foundation through a social post by a dear friend who works for Bombas, which happens to be a Cloudinary customer, and as I came to learn, a corporate supporter of...
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ImageCon 2020: A Profound Dive Into Visual Storytelling
Cloudinary’s annual conference this year, ImageCon 2020, was held online between July 27-30 with more than 18 sessions on a parade of topics that relate to visual storytelling. They focused on the...
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Open your Eyes to Color Accessibility
“For those of you who are watching in black and white, the pink is next to the green.” (Ted Lowe)We often laugh about snooker (think billiards if you’ve never heard of snooker) commentaries back in the...
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Lazy Loading: Choosing the Best Option
In today’s digital-first age, online site performance is critical for ensuring business continuity, attracting repeat sales, and gaining a competitive advantage. Lazy loading accelerates page loads of...
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Image Formats: Getting it Right
Image formats, which are standards for digital images, can be uncompressed, compressed, raster based, or vector based. You determine the DNA of your images with the formats you adopt, each of which...
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A Cloudinary-Enhanced Student-ID App
Student Id App Repo Badge App Repo Vue.js Translation Repo I’m an instructional designer on Cloudinary’s Solutions and Training team. As the COVID-19 pandemic emerged in March, like other global...
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When the Stars Align
In 2017, when Cloudinary first made the Forbes Cloud 100 as a ‘Rising Star,’ it was an incredibly proud moment for the company. In 2018 we graduated from Rising Star status to be acknowledged as part...
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User-Generated Content, Part 3: Videos and Their Transformations
Part 1 of this series highlights the basics of user-generated content (UGC) and its benefits for e-commerce. Part 2 describes how to leverage UGC images in e-commerce and efficiently upload, transform,...
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Tips for Retaining Audience Through Engaging Videos
Measuring the level of interest your videos generate helps you produce compelling content. The measurement and optimization approach must, however, address the various aspects of each video, including...
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Image-Editing Basics and a Tutorial for Automation With AI
You likely find yourself continually editing images for enhancement by eliminating flaws and tweaking the overall presentation, typically with software tools. Examples of basic editing are...
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Compressing, Resizing, and Optimizing Images in Laravel
Since performance is by and large the holy grail of software development, tools abound for building fast software, notably those for optimizing online media, most of which are images and videos....
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Tim Benniks: How I Built My Website
I work as director of web development at Valtech in Paris, France. Also, I’m a Cloudinary media developer expert (MDE), a content creator, and a developer. Follow me at @timbenniks and at...
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Associating Media Files With Laravel’s Eloquent Models
Laravel, currently the most popular PHP framework, offers databases an efficient, well-written Active Record implementation, called the Eloquent Object-Relational Mapper (ORM). Specifically, Eloquent...
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Levi's Gives Cloudinary a Spin for a Virtual Showroom
Levi's Footwear & Accessories is a division of Levi Strauss & Co., a major apparel company and a global leader in jeanswear, which also designs and sells casual wear and related accessories for...
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Meta Pop! A Data-Enrichment Tool Built the Cloudinary Way
Let’s take a moment and journey back to the days when Cloudinary was a tiny startup run by a few gifted people coding hard to keep enhancing their product with a single mission in mind: make life...
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Product Videos 101: What Makes Them Great?
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