Exposure Case Study

• We released our third case study (and a landing page so they're all easy to find). This time it's about Exposure, a platform for building beautiful photo narratives. Find out how Exposure handles 15,000 image uploads a week without touching the photos.

Serving Images Guide

• There's a new guide in town, showing you the ins and outs of serving images and how your image Source is used to build out image request URLs.

imgix.js 2.1.0

• Fixed a bug in imgix.getBackgroundImage() that was failing to return a proper background-image URL in some corner cases.
• Removed unnecessary imgix.getRawBackgroundImage() method.

View on Github

Documentation Updates

• Added a downloadable font list for supported fonts to be used with the txtfont parameter.

image-api-spec

• Published a new repo on GitHub which provides structured documentation for the imgix URL API. View imgix/image-api-spec on GitHub.

Documentation Updates

• Updated note regarding URI encoding on watermark compositing parameters.

Client Library Updates

• Updates to imgix-core.js, bump to v0.2.3
• Updates made to react-imgix to include srcset support.

Office Updates

• Beautiful new succulents for our kitchen wall courtesy of Terrarium Girl

Our First Customer Meetup

• Thanks to everyone who joined us at the Meetup this week—it was great to talk to you all face-to-face. Look for more in-person events in the future.

imgix.js v2.0.0

• Removed all parameter-specific getters and setters from the imgix.URL object (i.e. imgix.URL.getSepia(), imgix.URL.setWidth(), et cetera). This drastically reduces the library's footprint and future-proofs it by ensuring that the list of allowed parameters cannot get out of sync with our API.
• See the release log on GitHub for a complete list of changes.

New Swift Library

• Added a new Swift library to the imgix libraries page. This library is called Iris and was created by the team at Hodinkee. It offers simple integration into Swift-based iOS, tvOS, and OS X projects. It can be installed using Carthage.

Documentation Updates

• Fixed a few links in the fit=facearea documentation.
• Released a new blend mode, normal . This allows you to overlay one image onto another, similar to the mark parameter.

November Meetup

• We’re hosting a meetup for current and future imgix customers in San Francisco on November 17. Come by and have a drink on us. We hope you can make it!

Unsplash Case Study

• We released our second case study, this time about Crew's community-contributed, completely free-use photography site, Unsplash. It covers how Unsplash uses imgix to build new features quickly and serve 350 million images per month. Find out how Unsplash saved Crew.

November Meetup

• We’re hosting a meetup for current and future imgix customers in San Francisco on November 17. Come by and have a drink on us. We hope you can make it!

Client Library Updates

• The community-created React imgix library added a ton of fixes this week, including support for our new point-of-interest cropping. h/t @fredrickfogerty

Point-of-Interest Cropping

• Officially released point-of-interest cropping with the crop=entropy parameter. You can read about it in our blog post: Automatic Point-of-Interest Cropping with imgix.

New Libraries

• A member of the community, Frederick Fogerty, put together an imgix React component. You can read the documentation and view the source on GitHub.
• After porting our own blog to Jekyll, we abstracted some of the functionality into a Jekyll plugin for using imgix. We've published the jekyll-imgix gem on Rubygems and have posted the source on GitHub.

imgix.js

• Replaced how console.warn is called to prevent errors on older browsers.

imgix-rails

• Merged a pull request from Louis Cuny to namespace an instance variable the imgix-rails view helper. This will help prevent naming collisions. These actions meant it was time to increment the gem version to 0.3.1.

Site & Documentation Updates

• Fixed an issue with the documentation for the markscale parameter.
• Added a few newsbits to the bottom of our homepage.
• Cleaned up a few miscellaneous pages around the site like our Terms of Service.
• Added a new Contact Us button to the site.

Client Hints

• Introduced support for Client Hints, a new way to serve better-sized images to browsers. Read the blog post for more information: Next Generation Responsive Images with Client Hints.

Documentation Updates

• Added documentation for saliency-based cropping via crop=entropy.
• Added a link to the Sandbox in the sidebar of every documentation page.
• Added a new Contact Us page.
• Documented the Client Hints ch parameter.
• Updated auto parameter documentation to reflect current functionality.

Library Updates

• Fixed an issue with the build and test process for imgix-wordpress. View on GitHub.
• Updated the URIjs dependency to use the new npm package. Thanks to @oaleynik for the Pull Request!
• Documented the #ix_image_url method in imgix-rails. Thanks to @GimliLongBow for the Pull Request!