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# Welcome to Image and Video Manager

Image and Video Manager offers a simple way to intelligently manage, optimize, and modify your images and short-form videos. With Image and Video Manager, you can deliver a smooth, efficient, visually engaging customer experience that can also save you time and money.

You can configure Image and Video Manager to:

* Deliver images and videos in the best width and format for the requesting device, operating system, and browser
* Reduce the byte size of images and videos without any perceptible reduction in visual quality
* Override image quality settings and deliver lower quality images when a slower connection speed is detected
* Automatically apply artistic transformations such as cropping, rotation, resizing, color adjustment, and watermarks to images

# Developer tools

* [API for Image and Video Manager](https://techdocs.akamai.com/ivm/reference/api)
* [Akamai CLI: Image and Video Manager Module](https://github.com/akamai/cli-image-manager#akamai-cli-image-and-video-manager-module)
* [Akamai Terraform provider:  Image and Video Manager Module (Beta)](https://techdocs.akamai.com/terraform/docs/set-up-ivm)

# Use cases and examples

* [Display images using filename or path](https://techdocs.akamai.com/ivm/docs/display-using-path-or-filename)
* [Use query string parameters to apply transformations](https://techdocs.akamai.com/ivm/docs/use-query-string-param-to-change-images)
* [Dynamically resize images](https://techdocs.akamai.com/ivm/docs/dynamically-resize-images)
* [Resize images to fit an image grid](https://techdocs.akamai.com/ivm/docs/resize-images-to-fit-grid)
* [Create a mobile-friendly hero image](https://techdocs.akamai.com/ivm/docs/create-hero-image)
* [Validate optimizations using Piez](https://techdocs.akamai.com/ivm/docs/validate-using-piez)

# Tips and best practices

* [Best practices for pristine images](https://techdocs.akamai.com/ivm/docs/bp-images)
* [Best practices for pristine videos](https://techdocs.akamai.com/ivm/docs/bp-videos)
* [Best practices for testing your policy on staging](https://techdocs.akamai.com/ivm/docs/test-on-staging#best-practices)
* [Purge images from the cache](https://techdocs.akamai.com/ivm/docs/bp-purge-image-cache)
* [Purge videos from the cache](https://techdocs.akamai.com/ivm/docs/bp-purge-video-cache)

# What’s new

* [Release notes](https://techdocs.akamai.com/ivm/changelog)

# Sibling pages

* [How it works](https://techdocs.akamai.com/ivm/docs/how-image-and-video-optimization-works.md)
* [Prerequisites](https://techdocs.akamai.com/ivm/docs/prerequisites.md)
* [Incompatible products and features](https://techdocs.akamai.com/ivm/docs/incompatible-products-features.md)
* [Best practices for source files](https://techdocs.akamai.com/ivm/docs/best-practices-for-images-and-videos.md)
* [Key concepts and terms](https://techdocs.akamai.com/ivm/docs/key-concepts-and-terms.md)
* [Free trial guide](https://techdocs.akamai.com/ivm/docs/free-trial-guide.md)