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Online advertising is one of the most popular tools to drive traffic to your website and mobile application in a consistent and cost-effective manner. Online text ads play a very big role in this strategy. Building an effective ad campaign usually involves the write-up of different textual content to perfectly…

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…

Do you like to show your photos exactly as they were taken or do you usually tweak them a little to get that extra punch? Just a few years ago, almost all photos were displayed and shared as-is. Image transformations and improvements were left to the Photoshop experts. Then came the…

Web applications and web APIs are usually programmed to perform requests in a synchronous manner. A common web-based access flow will start with a requester accessing a remote service. The remote service in turn will process the request and quickly return the result.  But sometimes a web application will need…

More and more developers are getting to know the power of the cloud. In today’s web application development world you can leverage the cloud to build large scale applications so quickly and easily that it’s simply mind-boggling that you get all of this while still keeping on a very reasonable…

Modifying an image opacity so the image is semi-transparent is a common requirement when implementing modern graphics design. Reducing image opacity allows background images to feel less dominant. Reducing opacity also allows layering of multiple images one on top of the other, an important step when adding watermarks, badges and…

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…

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…