Upload images to the cloud with RESTful APIs. A simple URL access will automatically
crop and resize these images for a perfect fit in your web site. No installation required.
Free plan available. Example: access the following URL to automatically detect the face in the original image, crop it to a 90x90 image and deliver it through a CDN.
  • Automatic face detection
  • Advanced image cropping
  • Dynamic URL magic
  • Chained transformations
  • Delivery through fast CDN
http://res.cloudinary.com/demo/image/upload/w_90,h_90,c_thumb,g_face/butterfly.jpg
90x90 JPG
Dynamically generate a single sprite image from multiple uploaded images,
while resizing each image to fit in a 150x60 box. A stylesheet is also
automatically generated for easily embedding into your web site:
  • Automatic sprite generation
  • Batch image resizing
  • Automatic CSS generation
  • Web site load efficiency
  • Performance boost
http://res.cloudinary.com/demo/image/sprite/w_120,h_48,c_fit/logo.png
Simple to integrate to your web application. Trivial if using Ruby-on-Rails.
Example: one of your users uploaded a 800x600 JPG file through our API.
Use the following Rails view helper method to embed the image after converting
it to a 100x150 PNG file. The image is delivered from a fast CDN.
  • Ruby on Rails integration
  • Secure upload API
  • Complex image transformations
  • High performance CDN delivery
  • Safe & backed-up storage
http://res.cloudinary.com/demo/image/upload/w_100,h_130,c_fill/sheep.png
100x130 PNG
800x600 JPG (Scaled down)

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