# Simple Cloudinary use case

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/simple-cloudinary-use-case/67947>\
**Category:** Ask for Help\
**Created:** [November 19, 2023, 12:48pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/simple-cloudinary-use-case/67947 "2023-11-19T12:48:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![HeartwoodTreeCo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/heartwoodtreeco/32/8150_2.png) [@HeartwoodTreeCo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/HeartwoodTreeCo)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2023, 12:48pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/simple-cloudinary-use-case/67947/1 "2023-11-19T12:48:02Z")

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I’ve been wanting to overlay text on the color images that are available using the Image from Color column, to cram a little more information into list component images.

So far I’ve been able to use templates and Cloudinary to overlay text on a regular image from an Image column, but I’m stuck on how to do it with the generated images. They look like this in the data editor:

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/3/7/37fdcbb6dda53bd17d6914d4866dd763bbf1d7a8.png)

I’d like users to be able to change the colors that represent various things in the app, so I don’t want to save a file for each color.

Thanks to @Robert_Petitto and others who have posted more in-depth and interesting uses than this. I hope there’s a simple answer - thanks!

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**Author:** ![Darren\_Murphy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/darren_murphy/32/47326_2.png) [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 3:22am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/simple-cloudinary-use-case/67947/2 "2023-11-20T03:22:56Z")

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Why not just start with a blank image (stored in your Cloudinary media library), and then pass the colour as a parameter? This is what I do.

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**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 3:53am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/simple-cloudinary-use-case/67947/3 "2023-11-20T03:53:39Z")

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If meshes and triangles are not important to you, I would suggest using something like [Dummy Image](https://dummyimage.com/) to feed to Cloudinary.

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**Author:** ![HeartwoodTreeCo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/heartwoodtreeco/32/8150_2.png) [@HeartwoodTreeCo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/HeartwoodTreeCo)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 12:02pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/simple-cloudinary-use-case/67947/4 "2023-11-20T12:02:00Z")

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Great! Thanks for the help - just what I was looking for.