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How to Add Webcam Photo Filters & Effects in React with Cloudinary
By Colby Fayock
Apps like Instagram, Snapchat, and TikTok made adding fun filters to your photos easy. But what if you wanted filters in your own app? We can use Cloudinary with pre-built and custom filters on top of using existing device’s webcams to liven up the experience for our customers. What are photo filters? If you’ve used...
How to Automatically Tag & Categorize Images Using AI with Google Vision & Cloudinary
Images and video are a great way to create visual experiences, but when dealing with large amounts, it can be difficult to manage without tools to provide things like searchability. To help, we can use the power of AI, to categorize and label our media as we import them into our project with tools like...
How to Generate Personalized Social Media Cards for Landing Pages with Next.js & Cloudinary
You’ve likely seen conference websites or other apps that dynamically create images and social cards based on your registration. It’s a great way to personalize an experience for an individual, especially when sharing online. What’s behind the magic of the dynamic social cards and how can we build landing pages with our own dynamic images...
How to List & Display Cloudinary Image Resources in a Gallery with Next.js & React
There are variety of services that let us upload an image and see the result, but what if we want to view all of the images we’ve uploaded over time or provide a custom dashboard for managing those the images? Managing images on the web Whether you’re a developer uploading images for your website or...
How to Optimize Images on Netlify with the Cloudinary Build Plugin
Netlify makes building and deploying Jamstack apps super easy, but without additional tools, your images are going to get deployed “as is”, leaving lots of potential room for saving precious bytes. Instead, we can use the Cloudinary Netlify Plugin and get automatic optimization and modern formatting to make sure we’re delivering as great and lean...
How to Programmatically Upload Images to Cloudinary in React & Next.js
Image and asset managers like Cloudinary give you a lot of power in being able to automatically optimize and transform images, but when building an app, you can’t expect each user to upload manually in your dashboard. How can you share that power and give your visitors the ability to upload their own images from...
How to Create Thumbnail Images Using Face Detection with Cloudinary
Creating a gallery of images on a page can be trivial, but what if you don’t have control over how the images are created? Ending up with different sizes and formats can turn a good looking gallery into a mess. Instead, we can use Cloudinary image transformations and Face Detection to make sure we’re always...
How to Use Cloudinary Images in Next.js with Blurred Placeholders
Images are a large part of how the web is made. It creates beautiful and interesting things that makes our experiences dynamic. But too much of that, especially when not optimized, can create bad experiences, with slow loading pages. That’s where Next.js and Cloudinary step in to provide powerful optimizations and rich dynamic images. Thanks...