Image Manager Cookbook

With Image Manager, you can quickly and easily add a watermark to any image. Watermarks allow you to, for example, place your company’s logo on an image.

You can crop any image with Image Manager. Cropping allows you to cut an original image down to a desired selection that you specify.

You can resize any image to fit in an existing image grid in your application or on your website.

A thumbnail image is a small-scale version of a pristine source image. Thumbnail images can be created easily with Image Manager.

You can use either the path or file name to tell Image Manager to use the policy you created. This is helpful if your site has certain kinds of file paths or file naming conventions.

You can create a mobile-friendly hero image using the same hero image you used on the desktop version of your site.

You can easily add a text overlay to an image with Image Manager. Using a text overlay allows the text to stay crystal-clear regardless of the scaled size of the image.

Video files are generally large and take a bit of time to optimize on the first request. To hold users' attention, you can use a placeholder video that plays while the video your customer wants to watch processes.

While Image Manager makes it simple to resize images by hard coding dimensions or using predefined breakpoints, it can also dynamically resize images based on published dimensions.

This transformation enables designers to specify the shape and size of the region of interest, and provide Image Manager with cropping instructions for the width and height of the cropped area.