Cloudinary is a cloud-based digital asset management (DAM) service that centralizes the management, optimization, and delivery of images, videos, and other media assets. Developers and marketers can easily operate the service through code and UI, from uploading to conversion, compression, resizing, format conversion, and high-speed delivery via CDN.
Cloudinary Introduction
Pricing
Cloudinary is priced using DAM and API. Free plans are also available for those who only want to use Cloudinary for evaluation purposes. See our Pricing page for more information.
This Quick Start Guide even introduces you to the features you can check using a free plan.
Sign up
To use this Quick Start Guide, please sign up for a free Cloudinary plan. You can use the free plan without registering a credit card.
- First of all, please visit the Cloudinary site
- Click on Sign up for free in the upper right corner.
- You will be presented with the type of account to sign up for. Select the account you wish to use.
- Once sign-up is complete, a screen will appear asking which features you wish to use.
- Here we click on the DAM item below and then on the Let's start button
- The dashboard will appear
You can now create a free account to use Cloudinary.
Getting Started with Cloudinary
Once the account creation is completed, a Welcome dialog box will appear as shown below, and you will be taken step by step through the initial setup. Since the account creation has already been completed, the progress is 20%.
Use the account you have created to proceed through the tutorial.
Next step
The tutorial proceeds to uploading a company logo and watermarking that logo.
