# Cloudflare Images levels up: blend modes, percentage sizing, and AI upscaling!

Hey everyone, it's me, Shii-chan! Today I found a nice little update for anyone who works with images, so let me walk you through it.

## What was announced?

From Cloudflare's Changelog: [Cloudflare Images](https://developers.cloudflare.com/images/) just picked up four new features for optimizing and manipulating images. There's a new way to blend overlays, percentage-based sizing, new `fit` modes, and AI upscaling. All of them help when you want to reshape an image exactly the way you picture it.

## The story so far

Cloudflare Images lets you resize and crop images just by passing a URL and some parameters. But when it came to how a logo or watermark got blended in, or how quality held up when you enlarged an image, there was only so much control. This update fills in those "I wish I could tweak this a bit more" gaps.

## What changes

- You can pick how an overlay is composited onto the base image.
- You can size an overlay as a fraction of the base image.
- New `fit` modes give you more control over aspect ratio and enlarging.
- You can enlarge images more cleanly with AI.

If you like keeping your design tweaks entirely on the code side, these small additions really add up.

## Dive Deep

Here are the four, concretely:

- New `composite` option: choose how [overlays are blended](https://developers.cloudflare.com/images/optimization/draw-overlays/#composite) with the base image.
- Percentage widths: set an overlay's size as [a fraction of the dimensions](https://developers.cloudflare.com/images/optimization/draw-overlays/#width-and-height) of the base image.
- New `fit` modes: [aspect-crop](https://developers.cloudflare.com/images/optimization/features/#aspect-crop) always preserves the target aspect ratio, and [scale-up](https://developers.cloudflare.com/images/optimization/features/#scale-up) always enlarges.
- New `upscale` parameter: apply [AI upscaling](https://developers.cloudflare.com/images/optimization/features/#upscale) for sharper, more detailed results when enlarging.

Pricing and limits weren't mentioned in this announcement.

## Wrap-up

- Cloudflare Images added four new optimization features.
- `composite` controls blending, and percentage widths control overlay size.
- `fit` gains aspect-crop / scale-up, and `upscale` brings AI enlarging.
- A handy update for engineers who want to keep image manipulation on Cloudflare's side.