Image Manipulation
Image manipulation involves transforming or altering photographs or other graphic material using various methods and techniques to achieve desired results. Transloadit can resize, crop, and (auto-)rotate images, as well as watermark them.
Features
At Transloadit we call our features Robots because you can put them to work together to create encoding pipelines unique to your use case.
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/image/optimize
Reduces the size of images while maintaining the same visual quality
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/image/resize
Resizes, crops, changes colorization, rotation, and applies text and watermarks to images
Example use cases
See our features in action with some live demos and code samples right here on our website:
- Avoid zooming small images when resizing
- Convert an image from JPG to PNG
- Convert an image to WEBP
- Crop an image based on cropping coordinates
- Crop a picture to 100x100 pixels
- Apply a watermark to your images
- Properly preserve transparency across image types
- Reduce image file sizes by up to 80% without quality loss
- Resize an image to exactly 75x75 pixels
- Rotate uploaded images
- Apply a text watermark to your images
Related blog posts
Over the years we wrote the following posts about Image manipulation on our blog:
- Launching a new version of ImageMagick July 20, 2017
- How we secured a spot in thoughtbot’s toolkit May 19, 2017
- Powering Major Brands: How Transloadit Supports Shuttlerock's Mission July 8, 2016
- A word on ImageTragick (CVE-2016–3714) May 4, 2016
- Transloadit helps to make sure that every day is rent day at Renterval April 7, 2016
- Image Optimization Improvements November 24, 2015
- Performance Upgrades March 4, 2015
- Better PNG Optimization July 29, 2014
- Merging Image and Audio Files to Create Videos August 7, 2013
- Adding Support for Lossless Image Optimization June 6, 2013
- We Have Added Support for SVG Images March 23, 2013
- Adding Support for Image Interlacing December 11, 2012
- Adding Support for Waveform Images November 22, 2012
- Adding Support for Image Blurring October 21, 2012
- New Resize Strategy `fillcrop` Available February 14, 2012
- Adding Support for Audio Encoding November 21, 2011
- New `frame` Parameter for the /image/resize Robot May 26, 2011
- Adding More Options to Our Image Resize Robot May 9, 2011
- Now Offering Support for Image Rotation April 1, 2011
- Adding Support for Cropping by Coordinates January 31, 2011
- Is Your Image Scaling Software Up To Scratch? October 15, 2010