In this episode, I have a great conversation with Allen White, Contentful's Enterprise Solution Engineer, all about image formats, DAM integrations and how to manipulate images using the Contentful Image API to help improve web performance.

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• Tell us about your background.
• Tell us about the different kind of image formats we should be concerned with.
• Tell us about the JPEG compression.
• Tell us about lossy versus lossless compression.
• Tell us about the PNG image format.
• Tell us about the WebP image format.
• How are RAW images different from all other formats for the web?
• How can you make images responsive and what does that mean?
• Tell us about Contentful's face detection feature in the Image API.
• Can we have 1 master image and have the Contentful API generate the required images depending on the viewport?
• Does the Contentful Image API cache images?
• How and where are images stored in Contentful?
• Give us an overview of the Contentful Images API.
• Can you use the CPAPI or CDAPI to retrieve images?
• Tell us about progressive JPEGs. Tell us about 8 bit PNGs.
• Tell us about GIFs.
• Can we use the Contentful Image API on images not stored in Contentful?
• How can we integrate Contentful with other DAMs?
• Tell us about external image APIs.
• What do you see as the future of Image APIs?
• What is Lazy Loading of images?

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