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A photograph being resized, with a passer-by's face softly blurred

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A photograph, considerately handled

Pictures resized in flight — faces kept private.

A photograph on the web is rarely the right size for where it lands. Image Foundry reshapes pictures as they travel — the right dimensions, the right weight — so a page stays quick without anyone hand-cropping a thing.

It has a quieter talent too: it can find the faces in a crowd and gently blur them, so a street scene can be shared without turning strangers into subjects. Consideration, built into the pipe the pictures flow through.

What it does

  • 01Pictures reshaped to fit wherever they land, on the way there
  • 02Faces found and softened so bystanders keep their privacy
  • 03Pages kept quick without anyone cropping by hand
For the curious — the making of it

A URL-based image transformation service with machine-learning privacy blur (TensorFlow selfie/face segmentation), multi-cloud sources (S3/GCS/Azure/R2), HMAC-signed URLs, and Prometheus metrics.

  • Transformations described entirely in the URL
  • On-the-fly face segmentation and blur for privacy
  • Pulls from several clouds; signed URLs prevent tampering