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User uploads help your platform grow, but they also bring risk. All it takes is a single inappropriate or off-brand imagery to damage trust within your community. You need a system that checks content the moment it enters your app. In this guide, you’ll build a simple, real-time moderation flow…

Adobe Workfront is a work management platform for enterprises to centralize, streamline, and automate project lifecycles, from creative review applications, time tracking, and more. Digital assets go through an approval process on Workfront and then are pushed to Cloudinary Assets for storage and delivery. In this post, I’ll show…

Anyone managing large sites with multiple listings, in travel, hospitality, and real estate, knows the importance of photo carousels or image galleries.  Take hotel listings as an example. For most guests, the gallery is the “real” homepage of any hotel. They might glance at the price and star rating, but…

Alt text is essential. Without it, screen readers can’t interpret images, leaving key content inaccessible to the estimated 43.3 million people who are blind and 295 million who have moderate to severe vision impairment, roughly 4% of the world’s population.  Accessibility is not just a moral imperative; it’s also…

Earlier this year, I took over maintenance duties on Cloudinary’s Community Libraries. Fast forward a few months, and my team was gearing up to participate in Digital Ocean’s annual Hacktoberfest. Reader, I was worried. I was still very much familiarizing myself with how the libraries worked, and trying…

Most video players handle one clip and stop there. They don’t handle playlists, mid-roll ads, or smooth handoffs between videos. This project fixes that. You’ll build a small, flexible system that plays a set of videos, inserts ads, and switches sources without disrupting the viewer experience. Cloudinary delivers every asset,…

In this article, I’m not going to show you much code. Instead, I’m going to show you how you can build a holiday card collage, complete with a ribbon footer with text, a background, and 5 styled photos with rounded, colored borders in one line using the magic of Cloudinary’s…

You’re building an app for a small business or website, maybe a portfolio site or boutique store, and you know high-quality visuals are key for attracting buyers and showcasing your work. But without a designer on the team, you’re responsible for handling all the images and videos yourself. So how…

Use Cursor’s MCP server for Cloudinary to ask for common asset‑management jobs (list, rename, move, convert, tag) and get them done quickly. If you’d like, check out our previous blog post on image transformations.You can also watch the YouTube DevHints video of this blog post. What You’ll Accomplish With…