Title: Front Facing Image Manipulation
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Front Facing Image Manipulation

 *  [JakeBrand](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jakebrand/)
 * (@jakebrand)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/front-facing-image-manipulation/)
 * I’m brand new to WordPress, Cloudinary, and what appears to be a necessary knowledge
   of PHP, so what I am asking may be trivial or not even be possible.
 * I would like to make a site that allows users to upload photos of themselves,
   manipulate the image (crop, rotate, scale, etc.), preview the image after manipulations
   are applied, and save/share the image via social media. I’m not looking for a‘
   blog’ site, more of a ‘lets play with images’ site.
 * With this plugin I see that I can manipulate images as a developer (possible 
   improper user of terminology) and display those images on my site in posts or
   on pages. Is there a way to allow visitors of my site to do this too? Can I then
   store the URL associated with that manipulated image for social media sharing?
 * This is step one of my site, so any and all assistance is appreciated.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/cloudinary-image-management-and-manipulation-in-the-cloud-cdn/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/cloudinary-image-management-and-manipulation-in-the-cloud-cdn/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Cloudinary](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cloudinary/)
 * (@cloudinary)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/front-facing-image-manipulation/#post-6169717)
 * Hi,
 * Cloudinary indeed supports allowing your end-users to upload images through your
   web-app straight to your account.
 * Those image are then, immediately, available for on-the-fly transformations and
   delivering through a fast CDN.
 * Today Cloudinary offers a fully responsive and customizable [Upload-Widget](http://http://cloudinary.com/documentation/upload_widget)
   which offers interactive cropping on the client-side. It’s on our road map to
   add some more interactive features to the current ‘upload & crop’.
 * Having said that, an interactive widget like the one described in the question
   might be risky, as every preview of a transformed image is being processed and
   counted against the customer’s Quota. This could result with generating a large
   amount of unnecessary derived images and storing it on your account.
 * Meantime you can consider offering your users to submit a form containing some
   transformations parameters (width, height, crop, gravity, overlay text, etc.)
   and generate the final result once they finish.
 * I hope this will help you with your use-case.
 * Thanks, Nadav.

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## Tags

 * [crop](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/crop/)
 * [front](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/front/)
 * [image](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/image/)
 * [manipulation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/manipulation/)
 * [rotate](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/rotate/)
 * [Scale](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/scale/)

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/front-facing-image-manipulation/#post-6169717)
 * Status: not resolved