The first time I discovered Cloudinary, I mainly used it to store my images. If you are on our website, where people must upload images, then instead of storing the images in a database, I stored them in Cloudinary, which gave me a link to the image. The link is what you store in the database, and it becomes easier. Cloudinary added a new AI feature, and it is amazing. When I tried it out, it was powerful, and I used it in a project and loved it.
The most valuable features of the solution revolve around image storage. I think that is what is cool about the tool, and I use it the most. The AI is promising. There are so many things you can do with the tool. You can edit images, and you can refine images to make them clearer. The tool supports searches, meaning you can search the elements inside the image. If there is an image of a landscape, you can use certain options to search for that image. You can search for all the images that have particular areas from your image. It could get you all the images with the particular aspect of the image you provide or choose, which I think makes working easier.
I don't know what needs improvement in the product since there are so many features that I would not like Cloudinary to change. It offers a very good setup phase. The AI does not offer image generation. If Cloudinary can add a way or a model that can generate the image, then you won't need to upload images to it. You can just provide a prompt through AI, then generate the image and manipulate it the way you want. I think the changes in the AI can make things a little bit faster.
I have been using Cloudinary for two years. I am a customer of Cloudinary.
Considering that there are many users with many images, they want to change the platform and the design. If you are not going to put all the images in Cloudinary, then it will be easy if you have to update all the images. It can cause a little bit of uptime. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
I have not faced issues with bugs or any breakdowns in the tool.
Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a six to seven out of ten.
There are around a few thousand in the company who use it.
I have not had any issues that caused me to contact the product's support, but I can say that Cloundinary's LinkedIn page is very active.
Previously, I used to store the images in the database.
According to me, the product's initial setup phase was easy. I don't know what kind of person will be using it, but if it is a little bit technical, then it is very easy. One just needs to do some setup phases in Cloudinary Generative AI Playground, making it a very, very intuitive tool. I think there is very good documentation about the tool's setup phase. If you are a technical person, it should be easy. If you are new, you can just go through the documentation. It is a very intuitive tool.
The deployment process would take less than two minutes to be completed.
Cloudinary's automation features save time and resources. The image search feature is very intuitive and can save you a lot of time if you want to get an idea of the image you want to look for but don't know anything about that exact image. You can just use the items in the image to look for an image. Another one is if you are working on a project and the images you have there are not that clear, then you can easily, with a few clicks, make them clear. I think that that saves you the effort of going to an image editor to refine it. With the images in the background, you can just remove that part from the image on the fly. You also get the refill features. If your image is smaller and you want a bigger one, you can use the AI tool to add more elements to the pictures.
So far, I have not seen anything challenging in the product. There is not too much technical stuff you need to know to use it.
The AI features that I have used the most in the product and found to be beneficial include areas like the image refill functionality, image background removal, and the image definer so that if your image is not that clear, it can clear the image. You can change the color and elements in the image. If there is a book with an image that is white, and you want a book with blue pages, you can just tell the AI to make the pages blue. You can remove a few objects from the image.
Considering how easy it is to use the product and since I have used it in some of my projects, I can recommend it to others.
I rate the tool a ten out of ten.