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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…

If you’re a developer who lives inside Cursor and already has a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server wired up, you can offload a surprising amount of Cloudinary URL munging to your AI assistant safely and repeatedly.  You can also watch the YouTube DevHints video of this blog post. What You’ll…

If you’re only applying a single transformation to a short clip, manually processing may be fine. However, most post-production video workflows involve compressing, trimming, overlaying watermarks, and creating platform-specific variants.  When each of these steps depends on a person or a scheduled task to trigger them,…

Video without metadata is like a product without packaging. Without it, you don’t know what the product is, how to use it, or why it’s important. Now imagine that problem multiplied across thousands, or even millions, of assets.  For businesses that manage vast asset libraries and use video to communicate…