Tutorial: Using the computer vision features of the Shutterstock API

Posted by Tim McMackin on July 13, 2020

Here’s a tutorial that walks you through a simple scenario of setting up a free Shutterstock account and writing a Node.JS application to use the computer vision (CV) features of the Shutterstock API. You’ll use the API to search for images and then upload pictures of your own to use with reverse image search. Finally, you’ll use CV keyword suggestion to identify objects in photos. [Read More]
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Licensing Images with Shutterstock API Subscriptions

Posted by Tim McMackin on May 9, 2019

Now that we offer API-specific subscriptions, you can get straightforward access to our media library from almost any programming language or client. These subscriptions include API access, so you can get started using our media in your applications in just a few minutes. There’s even a free option if you want to try things out. [Read More]
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Canvas and WebGL Filtering 101

An Introduction to Image Filtering Concepts with Shutterstock Editor

Posted by Andrea Bogazzi on April 30, 2019

Shutterstock Editor is the easy design app for creating professional-looking content for social media, presentations and more. Image filtering is a crucial feature for any image-based design tool, and Shutterstock Editor provides robust support for it. This post outlines how we provide performant filtering within the constraints of various browser and hardware limitations. [Read More]
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Reducing Integration Time with Our Javascript SDK for the Shutterstock API

Posted by Tim McMackin on April 9, 2019

Today the Shutterstock Developer Platform team is excited to release an updated JavaScript SDK for Shutterstock’s API. The SDK includes methods for all endpoints in the API, so you can do anything with the SDK that you can do with the API by itself, like searching and downloading media. We’ve published it as an NPM package, so you can install it in your JavaScript, ECMAScript, TypeScript, and Node.JS projects. [Read More]
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Demystifying Story Points

Posted by Nael El Shawwa on April 2, 2019

Estimating work accurately is probably one of the most challenging skills for software engineers to master and perform through their careers. As such, how agile engineering teams assign points to their sprint backlogs is a subject of ongoing debate that traces its roots all the way back to the beginnings of Scrum. [Read More]
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Data Visualization Essentials

Posted by Cody Crouch on March 19, 2019

The business world has been buzzing from the phrase “Big Data” for years. Marketing around the term makes it seem like a magical phrase that can solve any problem just as long as we have enough data. However, even though we can store petabytes of data, it does us little good if we don’t have some way to let that data tell us a story and allow us to ask questions of that story. This is the benefit of data visualization. Below are three essential techniques for getting the most from your data. [Read More]
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The Shutterstock Sprint Demo

How We Scale Sprint Demos Globally

Posted by Stefan Hayden on March 12, 2019

One of my earliest memories at Shutterstock is sitting with 60 people crammed into a 20-person meeting room and one developer presenting what they released that sprint. I’ve forgotten what that demo was about now, but clearly recall that everyone applauded at the end. In that moment, the unmistakable enthusiasm, congeniality, and love of building sold me on how cool Shutterstock was. [Read More]
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Shutterstock's Search Results Grid

Building a Brick Grid in React

Posted by Jamie Wohletz on March 5, 2019

I work on the Search team here at Shutterstock. This team is responsible for building all the user experiences related to search—most notably, the image/video search results page, the asset details page (which you see when you click an image on the search results page), and so on. One of the advantages of our new experience, from an engineering perspective, is that it’s all written with React, which allows us to rapidly iterate and easily share common pieces of functionality across the whole site. [Read More]
Tags: react javascript search