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    How to Create a Diff of Two Images

    When I was a child, I loved looking for Waldo in the "Where's Waldo?" book series. These days I'm a sucker for TMZ's "What's the Big Frigin Difference" images, where TMZ slightly changes an image and you have to spot the differences between the two.

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    How to Reverse an Animated GIF

    Modifying visual media via code has always been a fascination of mine. Probably because I'm not a designer and I tend to stick to what I'm good at. One visual effect I love is seeing video reversed -- it provides a sometimes hilarious perspective...

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    How to Change Animated GIF Speed

    Comedians would tell you that timing is the most important part of any joke. The same could be said about animated GIFs; whether they're used as a meme or to illustrate a process, the speed of an animated GIF can effect its effectiveness. With that idea...

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    Count Frames in an Animated GIF

    The animated GIF always makes me chuckle; on one hand they seem like a relic of the "old web", on the other hand they aren't going anywhere and their meme-like presence seem to only make them more popular.  If you browse through my media blog...

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    Convert JPG, PNG, and Animated GIF to WEBP

    New image formats like WEP and MOZJPEG will be a major boost to load time on the web.  The majority of page load and render time is usually attributed to unoptimized images, so these new formats will make both mobile and desktop load times faster.  I've...

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    Image and Video Conversion with Cloudinary

    I've always been fascinated with media formats and converting both images and video from one format to another.  Media conversion allows us to play videos on devices or apps with picky media requirements and load optimized formats for faster download speed.  I've written several media-related...

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    Convert Websites to Apps

    Converting a website to a native app, whether on mobile or desktop, can be quite useful.  The problem with bookmarks, especially for software engineers, is that we often need to work in different browsers, so having everything in one browser's bookmark set can be a pain.  I'd also argue that websites with...

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    Automatic Image Tagging with Cloudinary

    Cloudinary serves so many purposes when it comes to your site's media: easy upload with any number of languages and methods, served from cloud and CDN for optimal speed, image manipulation on the fly by simple URL modification, and even background removal with one of their amazing add-ons.

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    Create and Compare Webpage Screenshots with Wraith

    Last week I wrote about using PhantomJS to create screenshots of webpages.  I still find it amazing that we can so quickly and easily create screenshots of a web page using a bit of server side JavaScript.  A reader brought to my attention a tool that takes...

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    Convert PSD to PNG with Node.js

    Automating and manipulating media is a fascination of mine, partly because I don't understand the magic behind it and partly because the idea of turning one thing into another is fun and useful.  That latest media tool that has piqued my interest is a JavaScript tool called psd.js. psd.js...