AI generative fill in Next.js (video tutorial)

Overview

This video tutorial shows you how to extend your images to different aspect ratios, automatically filling in the extra space using generative AI.

Video tutorial

Tutorial contents

This tutorial presents the following topics. Click a timestamp to jump to that part of the video.

Introduction

0:00	See how easy it is to extend images with generative fill using the Cloudinary Next.js library.

Display an image

0:47	Start off in the pages folder of your Next.js app, importing CldImage from next-cloudinary, and displaying an image from Cloudinary:

Use generative fill on the image

1:01	To use generative fill on the image, add the fillBackground prop to the CldImage component and change the aspect ratio of the image, for example by swapping the width and height.

Create a banner with a text overlay

2:05	To create a banner, leaving room for a text overlay on the right, you can extend an image to the right, keeping the original focal point on the left. To do this, add a custom object to the fillBackground property, setting gravity to west:

Reuse the template for any image

3:10	You can use the same template on any image, giving you the ability to extend images automatically, and at scale.

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