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Process an Image

Explore how to implement image processing features in your Node.js application using the sharp package. Learn to obtain image metadata, normalize and resize images, apply compression and blurring to reduce noise, and add watermark overlays. This lesson equips you with practical skills to handle images efficiently for better frontend performance and application branding.

Image processing is another feature of our application. With this feature, we can process an image before saving it. For example, we can use this feature to remove the noise as well as rotate, flip, and resize the image.

The sharp package is a lightweight, image-processing package that implements most of the image-processing techniques. This package supports a wide set of formats like JPEG, PNG, WebP, and AVIF images.

Gather metadata

The basic operation that we can perform using the sharp package is getting ...