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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…

In today’s Visual Web, images and videos, collectively called digital assets, catch the eyes of audiences much more readily than text, hence the predominant need to make digital assets engaging and compelling. Creating them is just the start, however. Other challenges are nontrivial and daunting, including the following: How and…

Media owners face a common problem with digital media: it’s easy to share anyone’s content, and the source is quickly lost. A common practice at major news outlets and blogs is to mark their work with an indelible mark to show ownership, with tactics such as: …

With Cloudinary’s current client-side SDKs, such as React, Vue, and Angular, you can manage images in numerous amazing ways, for example, making use of media from Cloudinary for your project, transforming media, and enhancing the responsiveness of your site. A new and exciting feature in our…

Content analysis on images based on artificial intelligence (AI) is yet another powerful feature of Cloudinary’s digital asset management (DAM) solution. This article explains the types of analysis Cloudinary DAM can perform for you. To run an analysis on an image in your Media Library, click the image from…

Every image is unique, so are website visitors. In a perfect world, we would adapt images to be “just right” for all users, i.e., perfectly cropped with responsive dimensions, correct encoding settings, and optimal quality in the most suitable format. See this example of a photo of a cat:…

Short videos of animated GIFs are spreading like wildfire around the web, especially in media and news sites, and people frequently share animated GIFs on social apps. However, because those GIFs are not optimized, their sizes are huge, consuming heavy bandwidth and slowing down page loads. Also, resizing and…

With the right platform and tools, software developers can code ideas into useful products and services. The same scenario applies to graphic and UI designers, who are now equipped with a wealth of sophisticated tools, e.g., Sketch, Figma, and InVision, with which to create first-rate app designs. All that has…

Images. More likely than not, your web or mobile app is filled to the brim with images, which, from graphical appeal to size and access times, figure prominently in the browsing experience. Image appeal could motivate visitors to return and, in the case of e-commerce, become customers.   No…