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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…

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-…

“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…

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…

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…

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 (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…

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 convince you otherwise in this post: even though automating UI tests and ensuring that they are fast and reliable is tough to…

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) or Secure Copy Protocol (SCP), File Transfer Protocol (FTP) clients, or web browsers. Generally, you upload files…