# Deep Learning Smart Cropping - Automatically crop images to optimal regions with deep neural networks Many websites ask you to upload images in specific aspect ratios. Smart cropping allows you to automatically find such images for any aspect ratio. It's powered by Convolutional Neural Networks, predicting the salient areas of a picture. We describe how smart cropping works and why it's important. Vivien Drescher, Leonard Papenmeier 24 Jul 2020 • 5 min read
# React Native React Native: Native Modules made for React developers On the developer experience with 3rd-party libraries for RN 0.60+ Alexander Schiewe 21 Feb 2020 • 3 min read
# Photography On Magic Colors As a photographer you are always searching for good light that makes everything shine. You are on a never-ending hunt for some of these ‘special’ photons that you can capture with your lens and on your camera sensor as you press the shutter button. Pascal Libuschewski 17 Jul 2019 • 5 min read
# Creativity On the Democratization of Design Creating appealing designs remains hard for most of us, and there are many reasons for that. Daniel Hauschildt 24 Jun 2019 • 4 min read
# Sketch Genki — A Design Developer System Design Systems are great! They helped our team prototype solutions so much faster, allowed for unified designs on all our served platforms and helped tracking changes more easily with dedicated component library and product sketch files. Ludwig Frank 14 Jun 2018 • 3 min read
# Apple Almost Getting Sherlocked by Apple’s Core Image Team During each World Wide Developer Conference keynote, app developers all over the world are fearing their app may get sherlocked by Apple. This has happened to flashlight apps when Apple Malte Baumann 12 Jun 2018 • 5 min read
# Design Rise above the Noise Why we want to make design more accessible to everyone. Eray Basar 2 May 2018 • 4 min read
# Design Designing a Photo Editor Part 1: Design as a team One designer on your team, in outright conviction that the current 2677FD can not be the right choice of blue, changes the color slightly Ludwig Frank 10 Apr 2017 • 6 min read
# JavaScript Lightweight Image comparison with Rembrandt.JS Rembrandt.JS [https://github.com/imgly/rembrandt] is a lightweight, client- and server-side image comparison library that we developed for our internal tests for the PhotoEditor SDK [https://img.ly/ Felix Rau 8 Mar 2017 • 2 min read
# iOS Bringing Wide Color to PhotoEditor SDK Inspired by Mike Krieger [https://medium.com/@mikekrieger]’s great post [https://instagram-engineering.com/bringing-wide-color-to-instagram-5a5481802d7d#.2gjnzpdeb] on supporting wide color images in Instagram, I decided to challenge myself by introducing Sascha Schwabbauer 10 Jan 2017 • 3 min read
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