New Magento plugin speeds up eCommerce stores and empowers them with cutting edge image features. This post describes the plugin and gives an overview of the features included and the setup involved.
This article examines the relationship between the increased use of mobile phones to the decreasing requirement for websites compared to apps, and how to prep your site.
This article explains how to automatically identify, tag and categorize user uploaded images based on their content. Code sample included for Node.js, Java, PHP, .Net, Rails and more.
What image do you display when you need to uniquely and visually represent an audio file, in a similar way to using thumbnails for photos and videos? Learn how to generate waveform images on-the-fly from uploaded audio files using dynamic URLs. Sample code included for Javascript, PHP, Rails, Node.js and more.
This blog post describes 5 ways to optimize your website or app for social sharing by dynamically manipulating the images you share on Facebook to better match your content and heighten engagement. Sample image manipulation URLs are included, as well as web development code samples.
More and more sites and apps include user uploaded videos, which raise new challenges for web and mobile developers.
This article describes how to transcode, convert, resize, crop and manipulate videos to best match the graphic design of your application on any device, browser and resolution. All video processing takes place in the cloud.
This article describes how lossy compression for animated GIFs allows you to benefit from both worlds: embed animated GIFs in your site, enjoy their simplicity, and still deliver smaller files that look good. Animated GIFs smaller in file size improve the user experience of your site's visitors and helps you save on bandwidth. Cloud-based dynamic GIF manipulation URLs are included, as well as code samples for PHP, Rails, Node.js, jQuery, .Net and more.
Learn how to improve your website’s look, feel and engagement by automatically visually enhancing your web application's images and user uploaded photos. Simply add a single parameter to your image URLs and extend Cloudinary's powerful image manipulation and optimization capabilities. The VIESUS add-on seamlessly, dynamically and automatically enhances images to their best visual quality. Sample code included for Ruby, PHP, Node.js, .Net and more
This blog post lists 10 cool startups that integrated with Cloudinary for uploading their images to the cloud, dynamically transforming them to match their graphic design and delivering the images optimized through a fast CDN. The listed startups are of different fields but ultimately share a very similar set of image-related requirements.
How to easily automate precise red eye removal from photos of web and mobile applications. Red eye removal is automatically performed on-the-fly on uploaded images in the cloud by Cloudinary.
How to detect and prevent advanced known and unknown malware and threats by scanning and sanitizing your users' uploaded files with Cloudinary's Metascan add-on. Sample code included for Ruby, PHP, Node.js, .Net and other frameworks.
Professionally remove the background from your image with Cloudinary's Remove-The-Background editing add-on. Image editing is done by a team of professionals to ensure accurate background removal. The image editing process is automatically initiated while uploading images to the cloud using an API. Sample code included for Ruby, PHP, Node.js, .Net and more.
How to identify similar images uploaded by users' to your website or application using pHash (perceptual hash), supported by Cloudinary's API. Sample code included for image upload with pHash generation.