Sometimes, color and brightness don’t cooperate in our images, and we’re left with splotchy “speckles” (point noise) all over our image. Thankfully, you can remove point noise with our Image Despeckling API in just a few simple steps. All you need to do is register a free account on our…

Removing color from an image both reduces the complexity of the file and creates a the familiar “black & white” aesthetic effect. With our Grayscale API, you can easily convert your images to black-and-through a simple color removal operation and return the encoding to create your new file. …

Edge detection refers to the process of detecting and highlighting objects with edges in an image by detecting gaps in the image’s brightness. This has limitless practical and aesthetic applications — and you can easily incorporate this operation as a service in your app using our Edge Highlighting & Detection…

While simple Gaussian Blurs distort pixels in a radius from the center of a photo, motion blurs go a step further, taking angle into account & thus directing our gaze towards an area of implied movement. With our Motion Blur API, you can easily create this effect for your images…

When you want to add that perfect blur to your images, you should go with a Gaussian. …

When we (or client-side application users) enter names into form fields, we typically do so either as a continuous string (i.e., “Jonathan Doe the Second”) or through individual entries (i.e., “Jonathan” + “Doe” + “The Second”). While the former option is a bit more fluid, it in turn makes validating…

Vat numbers can be invalid for several reasons — most commonly due to improper formatting. Whatever the case, it’s important to ensure that VAT codes are entered correctly into any application or database, or you’ll have bigger problems to deal with down the line. Thankfully, you can easily validate your…

User-agent request headers are designed so that network peers/servers can easily identify their various component parts. If you want to retrieve User-Agent information for your own purposes, we have an API that can help: our Parse HTTP User-Agent String API will return a haul of information about any given user-agent…

No matter what business you’re in, phone numbers are important to get right. They represent a means of directly communicating with our clients and customers, so invalid phone number entries have a direct negative impact on your business. Thankfully, you can easily ensure high-quality data entry with our Phone Number…