{"id":29696,"date":"2023-06-26T09:04:15","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T16:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloudinary.com\/blog\/?p=29696"},"modified":"2025-02-21T16:31:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T00:31:05","slug":"generative-ai-for-complex-image-editing-at-scale-in-cloudinarys-latest-innovations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudinary.com\/blog\/generative-ai-for-complex-image-editing-at-scale-in-cloudinarys-latest-innovations","title":{"rendered":"Generative AI for Complex Image Editing at Scale in Cloudinary\u2019s Latest Innovations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Complex image editing processes typically require skilled expertise, expensive tools, and time \u2014 all scarce commodities for both enterprise and SMB teams dealing with increasingly tight budgets and timelines. Enter Cloudinary\u2019s latest generative AI features that now perform complex image editing<\/a> tasks like object removal, filling images with additional background, or adding contextual captions for SEO and accessibility in minutes. These innovations save time and resources while removing the bottlenecks to get compelling visual experiences to market faster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alongside Cloudinary’s innovations, the generative AI space in photo editing has seen significant advancements with tools from various companies. For instance, Adobe Photoshop offers some AI-driven capabilities, allowing users to add or remove content from images using text prompts. Google Photos Magic Editor uses a combination of AI techniques, including generative AI, to enable specific edits on parts of an image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our latest edition of monthly innovations also enables developers to improve client-side search performance by generating cacheable search URLs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This development mirrors the broader industry’s move towards more efficient and accessible AI tools in photo editing. For example, tools like Picsart Ignite and Facet.ai offer suites of generative AI photo editing tools aimed at reducing editing time and effort. Additionally, the Imagen model from Vertex AI showcases the capabilities of text-to-image foundation models, further expanding the scope of generative AI in photo editing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To see these features in action, visit Cloudinary Academy<\/a> or our YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For a complete list of the latest innovations, check out our release notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Generative Remove and Fill Transformations<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Removing unwanted objects from an image to ensure focus on the primary subject or extending the background when cropping or changing image aspect ratios are often complex and time-consuming tasks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new Generative Remove<\/a> feature uses cutting-edge generative AI technology for automated object detection and intelligent pixel generation to remove unwanted objects in an image as though they never existed. Similarly, the Generative Fill<\/a> feature intelligently fills blank padding with relevant background pixels when changing the image\u2019s aspect ratio to ensure a visually appealing look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While other creative tools offer such features, Cloudinary\u2019s approach is highly differentiated because it enables technical teams, without the knowledge of complex creative tools, to perform such tasks at scale with simple programmatic URL-based solutions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Generative remove and fill features can be leveraged across many use cases, like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n