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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…

We are often asked to share our customer stories with the rest of the Cloudinary community. Whether it’s for learning about others experiences managing images with Cloudinary, or just to reaffirm Cloudinary’s solution – we love to hear your stories and we’re happy to share them. Today, we wanted to…

Cloudinary’s image management service is used by thousands of world-wide websites and mobile apps. For many of our clients, Cloudinary has become a central, mission-critical component used for managing image uploads, transformations and delivery.   This is why we’ve built Cloudinary from the ground up to be a very robust…

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…

In a previous post we’ve shown how you can easily manage your Ruby on Rails image uploads with CarrierWave and Cloudinary. Many of our Rails readers found this very useful, as it depicted a powerful image management solution that is trivial to integrate – use the popular…

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…