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A portfolio starts with a file picker, but it rarely ends there. Visitors use different screens and browsers. Editors need accessible descriptions. A A portrait may need a different crop from a gallery card. Videos need a capable player. Every byte still has to reach the visitor quickly. This tutorial…

Manually tagging videos works for a handful of files. Once you’re dealing with hundreds or thousands of TikTok clips and user-generated content (UGC) uploads, the process breaks down. Tags get skipped, naming conventions drift, and finding a specific video means scrolling through a library organized by guesswork.

A social preview can be the first part of an article that a reader sees. This tutorial builds those previews from page data instead of exporting a new image whenever a title, author, or background changes. The working project uses Cloudinary to crop a source asset, darken it,…

We’re proud to share that Cloudinary has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Digital Asset Management Platforms, recognized as a Visionary in the two previous reports.  More than 13,000 brands rely on Cloudinary to manage visual media experiences at scale, from the moment…

A new listing comes in from a seller. The product photo is clean, well-lit, and compelling. Is it a real photo of the item? A real photo retouched with generative fill? Or an image no camera ever took? For many marketplace teams, the honest answer is that nobody…

Alt text helps people understand an image when they use a screen reader or when the image can’t load. The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 Success Criterion 1.1.1 requires meaningful non-text content to have a text alternative that serves the same purpose. This requirement makes visual information more…

Video accessibility is one of the most consistently overlooked areas of web compliance. Most developers know how to add alt text for images, but video, captions, transcripts, audio descriptions, and contrast requirements are more complex and the tooling is thinner. This guide documents how to build a Next.js 15 application…

Most teams adopt Cloudinary to solve an immediate problem, usually to upload a file, embed a video, or resize an image. The feature ships, and the team moves on. But Cloudinary Video API includes capabilities that go well beyond basic upload and delivery, and…

Managing media assets is a routine task in software development, especially for teams building cloud-based platforms, e-commerce sites, or content management systems. If you’ve ever spent an afternoon uploading product images, tagging each one by hand, resizing them for three different channels, and then doing it all over again…