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Last updated: Feb-19-2025

Cloudinary offers a range of guides that describe available features and present common use cases, including detailed code examples in all supported programming languages.

Feature guides

Upload

Use Cloudinary's APIs and SDKs to upload your media assets in bulk

Programmatically upload images, videos, or any other file
Create upload presets to define upload options for various use cases
Embed the Upload Widget in your app

Transform and Customize

Programmatically generate endless variations from each asset

Resize and crop to your desired sizes
Add layers such as text or image overlays
Apply a wide variety of visual effects
Trim your videos to your required duration

Manage and Analyze

Manage and get AI-based analysis of your images and videos

Programmatically search or update assets
Automatically add metadata and moderate assets
Return advanced AI analyses on your stored media

Optimize and Deliver

Automatically deliver optimal size and quality assets for every device

Automate image and video optimization
Deliver images responsively
Embed the Product Gallery to present your product images and videos

Use-case guides

Video APIs

Transcode, customize, analyze, and deliver video at scale

Learn about some best practices and use cases for video with Cloudinary
Provide the best video experience for your users with the Cloudinary Video Player
Understand and optimize your video content by analyzing your video delivery metrics

User-Generated Content

Everything you need to know about user-generated images and videos

Automatically moderate content uploaded to your site
Enhance the quality of user-generated images
Standardize media on upload

AI In Action

AI-powered features to effortlessly transform, manage, and moderate your images and videos

Use generative AI to automatically add pixels that integrate seamlessly into the picture
Ensure you keep the content that matters when cropping using AI
Save yourself hours of manually analyzing images by using AI for tagging and moderation

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