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Graphic designers often contemplate whether to add borders to their website elements. The decision of whether to add borders around frames, buttons and text elements really depends on the feeling the designer is trying to convey through the design. In this blog post we wanted to tell you about a…

When images are involved, web developers have a large set of relevant tools at their disposal. You can display images in your web sites and mobile applications. You can transform and transform such images using image editing and transformation software or cloud-based solutions like Cloudinary. But there…

Since Cloudinary‘s launch, at the beginning of 2012, we have enjoyed watching many fascinating companies use our service in new and creative ways. Of these companies, many are early-stage startups. These startups are a pleasure to accompany and we enjoy watching them grow with us and with…

When we first started working on Cloudinary we had a very simple goal in mind – offer a complete alternative to a set of rudimentary, repetitive, universally common web dev tasks. Tasks related to a website’s image management needs. As a web developer, you surely found yourself spending considerable time…

*Update (2015): Before you can use a delivery URL such as the ones described in this post, you must first pre-generate the GIF with a call to the multi method of the upload API. The delivery URLs described in this blog post are used to display the pre-generated animated…

Different online services, websites and mobile applications have very different image management requirements. Despite the differences, the image management pipeline boils down to the same basic formula – upload the images, normalize them, store them and transform them to create derivatives (thumbnails, effects, watermarks, etc.). Afterwards, prepare them for delivery…

When developing a website you are required for a somewhat tedious work of handling dynamically uploaded content. The constantly added content includes images uploaded by your users and content administrator, user documents and other files.   As a developer, you’ll be responsible for adding integration of attachments to your application’s…

After our recent, somewhat technical posts, we wanted to lighten things up with Cloudinary’s latest (cool) semantic image transformation feature. Keeping people privacy in photos by automatically blurring their faces.  Pixelate Effect We previously detailed in length about Cloudinary’s cloud-based API for applying effects…

UPDATE – Since this post was published, we have added a more advanced solution that allows delivering private and authenticated images to your users. See the documentation on Media access control for more details. Different web applications have very different requirements when images are involved. A dating website…