> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://cloudinary.com/documentation/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Programmatic image creation

Cloudinary provides a variety of methods to create new assets in your product environment.

> **NOTE**: These methods create new assets in your product environment with their own public IDs, as opposed to the assets that are generated (derived) when using transformations, which are cached in the CDN, but aren't stored in your product environment with their own public IDs.
Topic | Description
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[Animated images](creating_animated_images) | Create a single animated image from multiple image assets, where each asset is used as a single frame of the resulting animated image.
[Archives](generate_archives) | Create an archive containing multiple assets, with or without transformations applied.
[Sprites](sprite_generation) (Deprecated) | Create and deliver sprite images with their corresponding CSS based on all images with a specified tag.
[Image collages](image_collage_generation) (Deprecated) | Create image collages from multiple image assets, combined together in a specific layout, with spacing and colors defined in a template.
[PDF files from images](create_pdf_files_from_images) | Create a PDF from multiple image assets, where each asset is used as a single frame of the resulting PDF file.
[Images from text](create_images_from_text) | Create an image of a given textual string and customize the look & feel of the resulting image with various font, color and style parameters. 
> **INFO**:
>
> The **Sprite** feature and the **Image Collage** feature using the `create_collage` method will be deprecated as of **September 16, 2025**, and will no longer function after that date. Be sure to remove these features from any production code.
> You can continue creating collages using [overlays](image_collage_generation#create_collages_using_overlays).