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Managing video can feel challenging. Files are way too large, uploads time out, and progress feedback is nonexistent. Most tutorials hand you a library that hides everything, which means when something breaks, you have no idea why. In this guide, we’ll build a complete video upload and gallery app using…

The Cloud to Crowd (C2C) curriculum is Cloudinary’s free six-course learning suite for developers who want to build and ship applications with production-quality image and video handling. It covers everything from Cloudinary basics to AI-powered transformations paired with hands-on projects at every step and a free certificate when you complete…

Blog grids are much more visually appealing when every cover image is the same shape, but uploaded images rarely match. One image may be wide, another may be tall. Another may be square. When those images are arranged in a grid, the layout can look uneven. In this guide, you’ll…

GitHub repo: https://github.com/musebe/react-travel-gallery Live demo: https://react-travel-gallery.vercel.app Building upload features in React sounds simple at first: add file input, add previews. Then users want drag-and-drop, progress bars, retries, and support for multiple files at once. Your beginner project has now snowballed into an even bigger one. In this guide,…

A fast Astro portfolio helps showcase your work without sacrificing page performance. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to build a high-performance Astro site using Cloudinary’s automated image delivery to deliver responsive images that load quickly across devices. Live Demo: https://my-portfolio-navy-two-o6ync5ksvm.vercel.app/ GitHub Repo: https://github.com/musebe/my-portfolio The Problem: ‘Image…

As part of exploring how Cloudinary can streamline creative workflows, I built a proof-of-concept DAM app to automate animation and spritesheet generation. The app allows you to take assets from your Media Library, apply transformations, set frame timings, reorder frames, and generate either GIF animations or spritesheets instantly. All without…

What could your team accomplish with less time managing visual media? Today, Cloudinary is introducing a new agentic experience that brings that idea closer to reality — purpose-built to make your team more productive, with full control and governance built in at every step. This isn’t your typical AI…

Today, we’re expanding MediaFlows with new AI-powered capabilities that automate the time-consuming parts of the video publishing workflow: generating and translating subtitles, enriching metadata, and adding chapter markers for easy navigation. Now, teams can publish faster while making all of their videos localized and accessible by default — expanding reach,…

Hero videos are visually engaging, but can be a silent performance killer on a slow network. And if you swap them for static images to reduce page weight, you lose the beautiful animations that made your hero section so compelling. We can change that with Automated Smart Previews. In this…