Programmatic Image Creation

Image & Video APIs

Last updated: May-10-2026

Cloudinary provides a variety of methods to create new assets in your product environment.

Note

These methods create new assets in your product environment with their own public IDs, as opposed to the assets that are generated (derived) when using transformations, which are cached in the CDN, but aren't stored in your product environment with their own public IDs.

Topic	Description
Animated images	Create a single animated image from multiple image assets, where each asset is used as a single frame of the resulting animated image.
Archives	Create an archive containing multiple assets, with or without transformations applied.
PDF files from images	Create a PDF from multiple image assets, where each asset is used as a single frame of the resulting PDF file.
Images from text	Create an image of a given textual string and customize the look & feel of the resulting image with various font, color and style parameters.

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