Philip Newcomer

When developing locally, it’s common to use a database dump from a production site. With large sites, it’s also common that the production site’s image uploads cannot be easily copied to the local environment, because there are simply too many of them.
While local environments like <a href="https://github.com/Pilothouse-App/pilothouse" rel="nofollow ugc">Pilothouse</a> allow you to easily proxy image uploads to your local environment from the production site, that doesn’t work so well if you add or change one of the registered thumbnail sizes in your local copy of the theme, since the new thumbnail size can’t be proxied from production as it doesn’t exist there. You’re also not able to regenerate the needed thumbnail sizes locally, because the original image file is not present locally.
CDN Image Proxy solves this problem by using <a href="https://jetpack.com/support/photon/" rel="nofollow ugc">Jetpack Image CDN</a> (formerly Photon) to proxy image uploads from your production site. Jetpack Image CDN will automatically generate and serve any required thumbnail size on-the-fly, but CDN Image Proxy will tell it to look for the original image on your production server, rather than on your local URL.
The result is that you can add or change registered image sizes locally whenever you want, and Jetpack Image CDN will generate and provide a CDN URL for whatever thumbnail size is required, sourced from the original image file located on the production site.

CDN Image Proxy

Use Jetpack Image CDN (formerly Photon) to proxy image uploads from another site.

Slocum Studio

Scott Sousa

Please Note: This plugin is considered an alpha release and should be used with caution. We’ll be actively updating it when we can, so please report any bugs <a href="http://simplephotonphotos.com" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a> or in the support forums.
http://simplephotonphotos.com
With the release of the Photon API in Jetpack v2.0, we noticed that there wasn’t a simple way to use the GET query arguments supplied in the <a href="http://developer.wordpress.com/docs/photon/api/" rel="nofollow ugc">API documentation</a>. We set out to change this.
Introducing Simple Photon Photos, the simplest and easiest way to add JetPack Photon API effects to photos on your WordPress website. This plugin adds a control panel to the Add Media Panel when inserting an image into a post. It utilizes jQuery UI Slider Widgets to give you control over the effects you’d like to add to your images.
This plugin requires <a href="http://jetpack.me" rel="nofollow ugc">Jetpack by WordPress.com</a>.
Known Bugs/Issues
<ol>
<li>When multiple images are selected (WordPress 3.5), Simple Photon Photos options are still displayed but are displayed as default values even though values may have already been changed.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Features</h3>
Simple Photon Photos allows you to add or modify the following features using the <a href="http://developer.wordpress.com/docs/photon/api/" rel="nofollow ugc">Photon API</a>:
<ul>
<li><a href="http://developer.wordpress.com/docs/photon/api/#w" rel="nofollow ugc">Width</a></li>
<li><a href="http://developer.wordpress.com/docs/photon/api/#h" rel="nofollow ugc">Height</a></li>
<li><a href="http://developer.wordpress.com/docs/photon/api/#resize" rel="nofollow ugc">Resize</a></li>
<li><a href="http://developer.wordpress.com/docs/photon/api/#fit" rel="nofollow ugc">Fit</a></li>
<li><a href="http://developer.wordpress.com/docs/photon/api/#ulb" rel="nofollow ugc">Ulb</a></li>
<li><a href="http://developer.wordpress.com/docs/photon/api/#filter" rel="nofollow ugc">Filter</a></li>
<li><a href="http://developer.wordpress.com/docs/photon/api/#brightness" rel="nofollow ugc">Brightness</a></li>
<li><a href="http://developer.wordpress.com/docs/photon/api/#contrast" rel="nofollow ugc">Contrast</a></li>
<li><a href="http://developer.wordpress.com/docs/photon/api/#colorize" rel="nofollow ugc">Colorize</a></li>
<li><a href="http://developer.wordpress.com/docs/photon/api/#smooth" rel="nofollow ugc">Smooth</a></li>
<li>
<a href="http://developer.wordpress.com/docs/photon/api/#zoom" rel="nofollow ugc">Zoom</a>
</li>
<li>
Crop support coming soon
</li>
</ul>

Simple Photon Photos

Simply and easily adjust the size and add effects to your photos utilizing the Jetpack Photon API. This plugin requires Jetpack by WordPress.com.

CDN Image Proxy vs Simple Photon Photos