Posts by Jackie Rosenzveig

A guided tour of the latest developer-oriented tools & demos in Cloudinary docs So, you’re looking for the answer to everything? Well, I can’t guarantee that, but we think the Dev Experience upgrades we’ve made to our doc site in the last year will get you…

If you were reading your social media or news feeds on or around June 11 this year, no doubt you came across your fair share of posts about Queen Elizabeth and her outfit-color faux pas. For her 90th birthday, she chose a solid neon green suit, and it didn’t take…

In today’s digital world, engaging online content is key for catching audience attention. At ImageCon 2020, Cloudinary’s annual conference, Yaron Reichert and me, Jackie Rosenzveig, hosted a session titled ‘Handling Media at Scale Using Automation and AI’, which delved into the following: The importance of creating and…

These days, e-commerce websites are trending clean and sleek, almost always spotlighting high-quality product photos with a flat-white, solid-color, or transparent background. Many practical and well-validated reasons support this choice, making it clear that this is no passing fad. This graphic illustrates a few of them: How do website…

In today’s fast-paced world with many people leading hectic lives often involving multiple digital interactions, getting a message across in seconds (or less!) is paramount. The best way to accomplish this is through visual storytelling. For your visual story to succeed, every graphic element of your website or app must…

If you’ve been working at home with young kids around during these “corona days”, you might have intuitively expected the last word of the title above to be “Toys” or “Candy”   😜. However, if you’re a member of a creative team for a web site or software application, then you…

TL;DR Cloudinary played a fun April Fools prank on their customers, but there may be a prize behind the punchline. The prank could actually turn out to be a really cool new DAM customization feature – but only if you give it your thumbs up! Cloudinary’s customers woke up…

If you’re the developer for an online store, a news site, a social media app, or any other website that delivers new media content on a regular basis, you are probably painfully familiar with both the challenge and importance of delivering well-cropped images. In a nutshell, your customers expect top-quality,…

If you are in a marketing or creative team at a large organization, you understand how complicated cross-team collaboration can be. Managing the entire workflow from creation until a developer delivers a new asset in your website or app (in its many variations for all devices, screen sizes, browsers,…

The last time you scrolled through the feed on your favorite social site, chances are that some videos caught your attention, and chances are, they were playing silently. On the other hand, what was your reaction the last time you opened a web page and a video unexpectedly…

If you are anything like me, one of the things you love about this digital era is that you can be artistic and creative, even if your drawing skills never made it much past stick figures. The average smartphone can take photographs of astonishing quality. And all sorts of special…

We all know that images attract interest and increase engagement, but with the huge overload of images out there, we sometimes need to get creative to stand out in the crowd. Your users who upload photos to your site or app may also be looking for those same creative opportunities.

No programmer could imagine a world without variables. Neither can Cloudinary. That’s why Cloudinary now offers image transformations that support user-defined variables. Using Cloudinary, you can already deliver transformed images with a variety of transformations, including resizing, cropping, rotating, a huge toolbox of special effects and filters, text and image…

With the decreasing price-performance ratio of computing, research efforts in face detection and face recognition algorithms are rapidly expanding and new techniques for both of these are achieving greater accuracy and reduced processing time. What Is Face Detection? Face detection is a technology that identifies whether and where human faces…

Every picture has a story to tell. But the story it tells can change when you change the color tone, saturation, contrast, or other elements of a photo. A few years ago, post-processing a digital image generally required a high level of skill and expensive software such as PhotoShop. But…

To every thing – turn, turn, turn – there is a CDN… And so the song goes, well, more or less. There really are an abundance of content delivery networks (CDNs) out there; and a time and a place in which each of those CDN services could win the race…

Update: In this post, we clarify that not all browsers natively support HLS or MPEG-DASH, and thus in order to deliver adaptive streaming video to all devices, you should deliver it using a video player that supports your chosen format. In December of 2017, Cloudinary released its own Video Player,…

Once upon a time, in long forgotten browser versions, getting a video into a website required creating and embedding Flash resources. But these days, all modern browsers support HTML5, including the HTML5 video tag, which means you’ve got a built-in video player that anyone can use. At first glance,…