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DAM for Developers: AI-Based Content Analysis

Topics Asset Management, Digital Asset Management, Face Detection
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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…

Smart Cropping, Intelligent Quality Selection, and Automated Responsive Images

Topics Django, DotNet, HTML, Java, Javascript, Node, Performance Optimization, PHP, Responsive Images, Ruby on Rails
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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:…

Reducing the Size of Animated GIFs and Converting Them to WebM or MP4 Through Automation

Topics Django, DotNet, Featured, Image Transformation, Java, jQuery, Node, Performance Optimization, PHP, Ruby on Rails, Video API
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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…

Why Cloudinary’s Solution for Digital Asset Management Matters for Developers

Topics Digital Asset Management
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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…

How to Sharpen Or Blur Images Through Automation

Topics Django, DotNet, Image Transformation, Node, Performance Optimization, PHP, Ruby on Rails
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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…

Atom Tickets Steals the Show With Cloudinary

Topics Case Studies, Image Transformation
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Atom Tickets is an award-winning, robust movie-ticketing app that serves more than 20,000 screens across cinemas and theaters in the United States, enabling moviegoers to search for films, invite friends, buy tickets, and preorder concessions online. To its users, Atom Tickets is also a convenient, catch-all repository for their…

jQuery Sliders: How to Cut Image Size by 96.3 Percent

Topics jQuery, Performance Optimization
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Many modern homepages feature a slider or carousel to rotate images of, for example, offers from or characters of the brand. Have you noticed that homepages are slow to load, though? The size of the images on sliders could be to blame. A common development vehicle for sliders is jQuery,…

m16y: Make Your Cloudinary Images More Accessible

Topics Accessibility
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Using alternative text (alt text) in HTML has long been a common SEO best practice, which also works well for accessibility. This post shows you how to programmatically generate, save, and use alt text for your images on Cloudinary. Benefits of Alt Text for Images According to Moz, alt…

Making the Path to Purchase Visually Engaging and High-Performant

Topics Asset Management, Magento, Partnership, Performance Optimization, Video API
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When was the last time you bought a product without looking at its images or videos? The chance of customers buying a product increases by an order of magnitude when you effectively showcase your brand and products with images and videos. And when you have customers interacting with your brand…

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