\n\nGenerating Base64 from an image:\n\n```js\nconst lqip = require('lqip');\n\nconst file = `./dest/to/file/zouhir-riding-a-bike.jpg`;\n\nlqip.base64(file).then(res => {\n console.log(res); // \"data:image/jpeg;base64,/9j/2wBDAAYEBQYFBAYGBQYHBwYIChAKCgkJChQODwwQFxQYGBcUFhY.....\n});\n\n```\n\nGenerating colour palette from an image:\n\n```js\nconst lqip = require('lqip');\n\nconst file = `./dest/to/file/zouhir-riding-a-bike.jpg`;\n\nlqip.palette(file).then(res => {\n // the response will be sorted from most dominant colour to least\n console.log(res); // [ '#628792', '#bed4d5', '#5d4340', '#ba454d', '#c5dce4', '#551f24' ] \n});\n\n```\n \n
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\n\n##### `lqip.base64(filePath: string)`\n\nThis method accepts an image file path, the file has to be one of those formats ['jpeg', 'jpg', 'png'] and returns a Base64 \nimage string with a valid format and ready to be used in web applications such as in tags source or in CSS properties URLs. \n\n##### `lqip.palette(filePath: string)`\n\nThis method accepts an image file path, and returns an colour palette as an array of HEX colour values. The array that is returned\nis sorted from the most to the least dominant colour. \n\n \n
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\n\n- [Medium web app](https://medium.com/cucumbertown-magazine/the-beginners-guide-to-composition-in-food-photography-how-to-transform-your-food-photos-from-good-39613ab78bf2)\n- [Instagram native mobile app](https://www.instagram.com/)\n- [Polymer shop project](https://shop.polymer-project.org/)\n\n \n
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\n\n- Essential Image Optimization, An eBook by Addy Osmany [link](https://images.guide/)\n\n \n
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\n\nRelated projects to this would be [lqip-loader for webpack](https://github.com/zouhir/lqip-loader) as well as [lqip-cli](https://github.com/zouhir/lqip-cli).\n\nThanks to contributors and [Colin van Eenige](https://twitter.com/cvaneenige) for his reviews and early testing.\n\nMIT - [Zouhir Chahoud](https://zouhir.org/)\n","maintainers":[{"name":"zouhir","email":"zouhir@zouhir.org"}],"time":{"modified":"2022-05-08T11:46:45.057Z","created":"2017-06-19T23:30:16.217Z","1.0.0":"2017-06-19T23:30:16.217Z","1.1.0":"2017-06-27T23:50:05.674Z","2.0.0":"2017-10-08T03:47:58.483Z","2.0.1":"2017-10-14T10:14:31.553Z","2.0.2":"2017-11-16T04:44:42.650Z","2.0.3":"2018-05-23T20:34:58.150Z","2.1.0":"2018-07-24T04:57:37.231Z"},"license":"MIT","readmeFilename":"README.md","description":"Low Quality Image Placeholders (LQIP) Module for Node","homepage":"https://github.com/zouhir/lqip#readme","keywords":["lqip","cli","node","nodecli","images","blur","blurry","webpack"],"repository":{"type":"git","url":"git+https://github.com/zouhir/lqip.git"},"author":{"name":"Zouhir Chahoud"},"bugs":{"url":"https://github.com/zouhir/lqip/issues"}}
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