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Image optimization is an important step to reducing page load times, improving user experience and reducing bandwidth costs. When using the JPEG image format, which is best used for photos, the most common optimization is controlling the JPEG quality level. By lowering JPEG quality, say to 90%, 80% or…

Many websites and mobile apps today allow their visitors to share their own photos. Users upload their profile images to dating sites, photos of their personal belongings to second hand market websites and real estate billboards. Users share their personal photos on social networks, and upload images to their favorite…

It’s a common challenge in many mobile and web applications: how do you allow users to upload their own images, while automatically adapting these images to a fixed graphic design? Cropping images at scale A classic example is a user uploading a profile picture, but instead of providing a headshot,…

There are many ways to optimize PNG files, but one optimization which is commonly overlooked involves the PNG’s transparent background. If you’ve chosen to use PNGs instead of a more compact format like JPG, mainly for the PNG’s support of a transparent background (alpha channel), read on…

Thumbnails of website screenshots are a common visual design element. Search engines, such as Google, display webpage screenshots in their search results. Social news sites, such as DZone, embed screenshot thumbnails of shared pages. Bloggers and technology news sites embed screenshots of company websites and online services they discuss in…

Website developers and administrators today tend to find themselves managing quite a few files, images and other media assets. Whether you upload content to your web application yourself, allow your users to upload files or have files imported from content partners, you’ll need to handle the upload process, storage, and…

One of the hardest optimization goals when showing images to your website (and mobile application’s) visitors, is to minimize the image file size while maintaining high enough display quality. Smaller image file sizes directly translate to faster load times, reduced bandwidth costs and improved user browsing experience. But small file…

Modern image compression techniques have had a large impact on our lifestyle. Digital cameras can save thousands of high-quality photos on a single memory card, smartphones can quickly share high resolution images on-the-fly, and websites and mobile apps can show rich media quickly. All of this just couldn’t have worked…

Call us prejudice, but as a hardcore Linux guys, the name Microsoft always caused us to flinch a little. That was our initial reaction when we were approached by the Azure team. We have been integrating Cloudinary with many PaaS providers to make our platform as accessible as possible, and…