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Even though the image format animated GIFs are gaining popularity, their file size is usually large, causing slow loading and incurring high bandwidth costs. Besides, the GIF format is old and not optimized for modern video clips. The developer’s job of effecting fast loading of animated GIFs and delivering…

Wouldn’t it be cool to have the powers of Gatsby rendering performant pages and serving optimized and transformed media files from Cloudinary on the same site? That’s now a reality: I’m excited to introduce two Gatsby plugins on Cloudinary: Gatsby-Source-Cloudinary and Gatsby-Transformer-Cloudinary. Here’s the background. Given that the…

Oftentimes, developers and architects must supplement their project documents with diagrams, charts, sequence drawings, and the like. Instead of creating them with traditional software like Microsoft Visio, I searched for a more developer-friendly alternative and found a project with just the right tool, which I was able to integrate with…

In the web-design arena, what you don’t see can hurt you. Worse, it could damage your brand’s reputation, let alone hurt the bottom line. I’m talking about images. Loading img files can consume a lot of bandwidth. Viewing them incurs a cost on your and your visitors’ part. In fact,…

As a photographer and a marketer, nothing excites me more than a campaign that utilizes beautiful, powerful imagery to tell a story and connect with an audience. My childhood dreams of traveling the world for National Geographic live on. Like Dorothea Lange and so many inspiring photographers before me, I…

Tis the season for gift guides, wish lists and hopeful letters to Santa. Among the things that make Cloudinary such a great place to work are all the amazing brands we get to call our customers. Should there ever be a rule that we exclusively shop, read and rely on…

Shortcut to Cloudinary’s solution Keeping all your digital assets well organized in a single repository requires an effective way to find what you need when you need it. Otherwise, each and every task that your team performs on those assets would take up…

When I first learned about Cloudinary back in 2013, it literally seemed like web-development magic. You upload your images and videos to it and, in short order, Cloudinary has served them in the most optimal formats and quality for all browsers and devices. It blew me away. No doubt some…

One photo can morph into a thousand photos through a simple application of bits and pieces of transformation effects. A few examples of the common effects are Black and White, Duotone, Blurs and Fades, Cartoonification, and Color Pop. Given the wide use of the Color Pop effect on Google Photos,…