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When the Stars Align

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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 of the incredible Cloud 100, the top 100 SaaS companies in the world. Today…

A Cloudinary-Enhanced Student-ID App

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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 organizations, we pivoted to set up virtual courses. As much as we looked forward to resuming in-person…

Image Formats: Getting it Right

Topics Asset Management, Image Formats
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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 offering different capabilities. For example, rasters generate images with pixels; vectors, with vectors or proportional formulas. PNGs can…

Lazy Loading: Choosing the Best Option

Topics Javascript, Progressive Web App, React, SDK
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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 performance for websites and apps. Many implementation techniques are available, however, so choose wisely. In particular, become familiar with the universal practices and the language-…

Open Your Eyes to Color Blindness Accessibility

Topics Accessibility, E-commerce, Image Transformation
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“For those of you who are watching in black and white, the pink is next to the green.” (Ted Lowe) Back in the days of black and white television, approximately 300 million people worldwide faced the seemingly simple task of distinguishing colors. In general, it wasn’t much of a…

Image showing a person’s face covered in bright paint emphasizing the need for color blindness accessibility

ImageCon 2020: A Profound Dive Into Visual Storytelling

Topics Conference, ImageCon
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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 strategies, tools, and best practices on how to leverage rich media, particularly images and videos, to boost user…

The Pros and Cons of JPEG 2000 and Other Common Image Formats

Topics Guest Post, JPEG
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What is JPEG 2000? JPEG 2000 is an image format created by the Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) in 2000 to replace the JPEG format. JPEG 2000 files have the extension .JP2. The format uses discrete wavelet transform (DWT), which is the only standard compression scheme that provides both lossless…

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Community Spotlight: A Second U Foundation

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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 the Foundation. They’ve been getting a lot of high-profile,…

User-Generated Content, Part 2: Images and Their Transformations

Topics Asset Management, E-commerce, Image Transformation, User-Generated Content
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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 you how to take advantage of UGC images in e-commerce and to…

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