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updatedAt: 2025-09-24T20:48:09.000Z
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# Resizing assets

> 📘 Learning objectives
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> * Understand the purpose and use cases of **Image Resizer**.
> * Create and configure a transformation profile.
> * Use transformation profiles in the PIM interface and via the API.

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# Overview

**Image Resizer** is an optional feature of Quable PIM, available by subscription. This feature allows to generate variations of image-type assets in different formats, sizes, or proportions.

These variations are useful for:

* Adapting visuals to the requirements of distribution channels (e-commerce site, marketplaces, print, etc.),
* Saving time by avoiding editing in another dedicated software,
* Ensuring visual consistency across all media.

> 👍 Good to know
>
> * Image Resizer is a paid feature.
> * To activate this feature, contact your **CSM** (Customer Success Manager).
> * Creating a new profile may generate additional costs if the quota is exceeded.

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# Accessing Image Resizer settings

From the Quable PIM interface:

* Go to the administration console, then navigate to **Integration > Image Resizer**.

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* The list shows the **profiles** already created.
* The **Create a new transformation profile** button is located in the top right corner of the interface.

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# Creating a new profile

A **transformation profile** corresponds to a specific image format (e.g. *600x600 thumbnail*, *HD e-commerce*, *WebP preview*, etc.).

* Click **Create a new transformation profile**.
* Fill in the following three sections of the form:

## 1. Profile identity

| Field    | Description                                                                                        |
| -------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Name** | Clear name for the profile (e.g.: `thumbnail-marketplace`, `HD-print`)                             |
| **Code** | Unique code for the URL (e.g.: `hdweb`, `miniature600`). **⚠️ Cannot be modified after creation.** |

At this stage, a **CDN preview URL** is automatically generated for you.

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## 2. Transformations

Choose **one transformation type** suited to your needs:

| Transformation | Desired effect                                                                      |
| -------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Fit & fill** | The image fits into a fixed frame, and empty areas are filled with a selected color |
| **Crop**       | The image is centered and cropped to the specified dimensions                       |
| **Max width**  | The image is resized proportionally to a maximum width                              |
| **Max height** | The image is resized proportionally to a maximum height                             |

**Example**: A 4000x3000px image with a `600x600` transformation may be cropped, resized, or framed depending on the selected method.

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## 3. Format

Define the **output format**:

* **JPEG**: Good quality/weight compromise
* **WebP**: Format optimized for the web
* **PNG**: Ideal for visuals with transparent backgrounds

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# Using profiles in Quable

Once created, profiles are available:

* **In the DAM**: when downloading an asset, you can choose between the **original file** and a **resized version** via an image resizer profile,

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* **In the asset sheet**: when downloading an asset, you can choose between the **original file** and a **resized version** via an image resizer profile,

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* **In advanced search**: during quick asset exports, additional options appear to define the export. You can choose between the **original file** and a **resized version** via an image resizer profile,

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* **Via the API**: by calling the URL containing the *profile code*\
  Use API v5 and the /api/assets endpoint\
  In the response, the `thumbnail` attribute contains the links to the resized images.

> 📘 Good to know
>
> Two standard profiles are available by default, even when no image resizer profile is created:
>
> * `original` (untransformed image)
> * `600x600` (thumbnail profile)

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# Managing Image Resizer profiles

## Edit a profile

> 🚧 Limitations
>
> It is not possible to edit a profile after creation.

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## Delete a profile

1. On the **Image Resizer** page, locate the profile to delete.
2. Click the **Delete** icon on the right.
3. A dialog box will ask you to confirm.

> 🚧 Warning
>
> ⚠️ Irreversible action: it is not possible to recover a profile after deletion.

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## Profile information

1. On the **Image Resizer** page, locate the profile you want to view.
2. Click the **Information** icon on the right.
3. A window will open with the profile description details.

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# Best practices

* **Clearly name** profiles (e.g. `web-small`, `print-a4`) to make them easier to identify.
* **Create one profile per distribution channel**: web, print, marketplace, etc.
* **Limit the number of profiles** to avoid management complexity or exceeding contractual thresholds.
* **Test** the results via the CDN URL before final distribution.

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> 📘 Summary
>
> * Image Resizer is an optional subscription feature that allows images to be automatically transformed based on defined rules.
> * Creating a transformation profile requires defining: profile identity (name/code), transformation type (cropping, resizing, etc.), output format (JPEG, PNG, WebP).
> * Once created, profiles are available for download:
>
>   * In the DAM,
>   * In the asset sheet and product sheet,
>   * In advanced search,
>   * Via the API.

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# Next Chapter

🎉 **Congratulations!** You have completed the course **"Resizing assets"** Continue your learning journey by exploring the next module in the [Asset Studio Training Program]().