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*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…

Where do you host all of your website’s assets – still on your own web servers? In modern websites, images alone contribute to more than 50% of a website’s load time, and recent studies show that even a 1 second delay in a page’s load speed can result in more…

Websites, blogs and web applications regularly embed video content from various video service providers such as YouTube and Vimeo. Videos are usually depicted using image thumbnails, tweaked to fit the graphics design of the website. When a video thumbnail is clicked, the actual video content starts playing. In this…

When we first started developing web apps with Ruby on Rails, some six years ago, we struggled with finding a good IDE. We settled for Eclipse with RadRails (still developing on PCs at that time…), but kept our eyes open for new and promising IDEs. At late 2007, a very…

As a website owner, you know the importance of having a robust web-based service. When a downtime may result in lost revenues, you strive to keep a highly available online solution. A major part of having a robust service is a good contingency plan, that ultimately depends on regular backups…