Cloud Atlas — a small gallery of skies

Wispy white clouds drifting across a bright blue sky — **Wispy Cumulus** Fair-weather clouds scattered across a bright blue sky.

Dramatic clouds filling the sky at sunset — **Sunset Drama** Golden light spilling through heavy evening clouds.

White clouds and blue sky during daytime — **Blue-Sky Day** Soft white clouds on a calm, clear afternoon.

Layered clouds and blue sky in a dreamy atmosphere — **Dreamy Layers** Stacked cloud layers fading into a hazy horizon.

One photo, transformed at the edge

Every image below is the same source file (clouds-bluesky.jpg), rewritten on the fly by Cloudflare Image Transformations — the effect lives entirely in the URL.

Blue-sky clouds, resized — **Resized**`width=460`

Blue-sky clouds in grayscale — **Grayscale**`saturation=0`

Blue-sky clouds blurred — **Blurred**`blur=60`

Blue-sky clouds with boosted contrast — **Punchy**`contrast=1.5`

Blue-sky clouds square crop — **Square crop**`fit=cover,300×300`

Blue-sky clouds sharpened — **Sharpened**`sharpen=8`

Same pixels, smaller bytes

The identical crop, encoded three ways with format=… in the URL. Modern codecs shrink the payload with no change to the markup.

Blue-sky clouds encoded as AVIF — **AVIF** `format=avif`

Blue-sky clouds encoded as WebP — **WebP** `format=webp`

Blue-sky clouds encoded as JPEG — **JPEG** `format=jpeg`