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How to use conditions to dynamically transform images

Topics Django, DotNet, Face Detection, Image Transformation, Java, Javascript, jQuery, Node, PHP, Ruby on Rails
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It’s great to have the capability to transform images on the fly by using dynamic URLs to customize the images to fit the graphic design of your site or mobile application. However, what if you want to transform an image depending on a specific image characteristic (like its width or…

Facial Attribute Detection with Microsoft’s Face API and Cloudinary

Topics Django, DotNet, Face Detection, Image Transformation, Java, jQuery, Node, PHP, Ruby on Rails
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Many of the photos displayed on the internet these days are of people. If your website or mobile application displays photos that include people, you will want to make sure that their faces are included in the delivered images when cropping and transforming them to fit your graphic design and…

How To Distort Images Dynamically to Fit your Graphic Design

Topics Django, DotNet, Image Transformation, Java, jQuery, Node, PHP, Ruby on Rails
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How to Distort images in the cloud It can be quite a challenge to graphically design a website or mobile application that displays images in very precise shapes and orientations. Product customization can take the form of warping 2D pictures to have a 3D perspective, placing images in precise…

Automatic Image Tagging and Categorization With Imagga

Topics Django, DotNet, Image Transformation, Java, jQuery, Node, PHP, Ruby on Rails
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If you have an application that allows users to upload their own photos, it can be very useful to be able to organize these photos according to their content. This will allow you to categorize the content for displaying to all your users and make your image library searchable. Furthermore,…

5 Ways for Effective Facebook Image Optimization

Topics Image Transformation, jQuery, Node, Performance Optimization, PHP, Ruby on Rails
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As a website/app developer or owner, you’ve undoubtedly experienced your fair share of glitches and mishaps when it comes to users or site visitors sharing your content. Many outlets such as news and media sites, social networks, or eCommerce sites include the option to “like” or “share” content such as…

Google's new logo might not be as small as claimed

Topics Django, DotNet, Image Transformation, Java, jQuery, Node, Performance Optimization, PHP, Ruby on Rails
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The Internet was abuzz last week after the announcement of Google’s new logo. What caught our eyes more than the artistic changes was this sentence on Google’s blog: “building a special variant of our full-color logo that is only 305 bytes, compared to our existing logo at ~14,000 bytes”.

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Video transcoding, resizing, cropping and manipulating made easy with Cloudinary

Topics Django, DotNet, Java, jQuery, Node, PHP, Ruby on Rails, Video Transcoding, Video Transformation
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Videos are becoming more prolific with people having the capability to capture videos with a wide variety of cameras, including smartphone cameras that are available almost everywhere. Web and mobile applications that display videos online can be faced with a challenge when the videos are created or uploaded from different…

Automatic visual image enhancement for your web application using Cloudinary

Topics Django, DotNet, Image Transformation, Java, jQuery, Node, PHP, Ruby on Rails
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Various factors can have an effect on the visual quality of photos captured by a wide variety of digital cameras. Technical limitations of cameras, coupled with changing conditions in which users take photos, results in a wide range of visual quality. Camera-related limitations arise from a combination of poor optics,…

How to automatically create images for Responsive design

Topics Django, DotNet, Image Transformation, Java, jQuery, Node, PHP, Responsive Images, Ruby on Rails
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Responsive web design is a method of designing websites to provide an optimal viewing experience to users, irrespective of the device, window size, orientation, or resolution used to view the website. A site designed responsively adapts its layout to the viewing environment, resizing and moving elements dynamically and based…

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