Cloudinary - Image Management In The Cloud
Cloudinary - Image Management In The Cloud
Cloudinary is your one stop shop for EVERY image related task.
Get your images delivered lightning-fast, responsive and highly optimized for any device in any location. Images are served via Akamai’s worldwide CDN.
With Cloudinary, all your images are automatically uploaded, normalized, optimized and backed-up in the cloud instead of being hosted on your servers. Cloudinary manipulates and transforms your images online, on-the-fly.
Install Cloudinary Magento Extension now, get the most powerful image solution available today, and get your eCommerce site to the next level.
Requirements
- While you don't need to install any image software on your server, you will need to sign up for a (free) Cloudinary account to use the extension and start uploading images to the cloud.
- Is your site gaining traction? Upgrade to one of our PRO plans for higher usage limits with practically limitless scale.
Overview
- Lightning-fast optimized image delivery.
- Highly improved user experience & website performance.
- Virtually limitless scale.
- Single-click migration of your existing images.
- Vast array of image manipulation capabilities.
- Useful for any eCommerce service, from small eCommerce websites to large enterprises.
Image Uploads
- Upload any image type: JPG, PNG, GIF, animated GIF, BMP, ICO, TIFF, PSD, WebP, PDF and more.
- Use Magento web interface for uploading images, while your images are automatically uploaded to the cloud behind the scenes.
Image Optimization
- Your images are automatically optimized. Their file size is reduced and they are delivered faster to your visitors.
- Images are automatically adapted to the specific device and browser of your users.
- Stripping meta data, converting formats, optimizing compression.
Image Manipulations
You can apply one or more transformations and manipulations on every image:
- Image formats - easily convert image formats.
- Resize & crop - scale, fill, fit, pad, crop, limit, custom coordinates.
- Image quality - control image compression quality for balancing file size and visual quality.
- Face detection - face detection based cropping, thumbnail generation, multiple faces detection.
- PDF Processing - convert PDF document pages to images and thumbnails.
Image Storage
- All your images are stored in a cloud-based persistent storage.
- Scales to Terabytes and more.
- Highly available redundant storage.
- All your photos are automatically backed-up, including revision tracking.
Image Delivery
- All your images are automatically delivered via a lightning-fast world-wide Content Delivery Network (CDN).
- Images are smartly cached for performance optimization, using every best practice in the book.
- Multiple CDN sub-domains (Domain Sharding).
Simple Integration
- Upload and manage your images with Cloudinary directly from your Magento interface.
- Migrate all your locally hosted images to Cloudinary.
- Migrate your existing product images to Cloudinary in a single click.
- Easily restore your products to use local images instead of Cloudinary.
Insights and Reports
- Cloudinary offers a powerful online management console.
- Browse all your images and transformations.
- View comprehensive statistics and usage reports.
- You can even automate your content management using a RESTful API.
Quick start notes
- Install Cloudinary's Magento extension.
- Sign-up to a Cloudinary account if you don't already have one.
- Go to the settings page of Cloudinary's Magento Extension: Click on the 'System' menu, select 'Configuration', click on 'Cloudinary' under the 'Services' section of the sidebar menu.
- Copy the CLOUDINARY_URL string with your account credentials from the dashboard of Cloudinary's Management Console. Paste it in the relevant input field in the settings form.
- Optionally, modify the default image delivery and manipulation settings available in this form.
- Migrate your existing product images to Cloudinary via the 'Manage Cloudinary' page available by selecting 'Manage' from the 'Cloudinary' top menu. Click on the 'Start Migration' button to start the migration process.
- Enable Cloudinary's extension for new product image uploads and optimized image delivery by clicking on the 'Enable Cloudinary' button.
- Make sure to Flush Magento Cache after changing your settings or enabling Cloudinary's extension.
About Cloudinary
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