In this tutorial, Becky Peltz and Danny Valentine at Cloudinary explain the basics of Cloudinary's transformations - changing images and videos programmatically in some way, either for the purposes of optimization or aesthetics.
They define what a transformation is, what the Cloudinary URL is and looks like, and also explain a little bit about caching transformations on content delivery networks (CDNs).
This tutorial is part of a self-paced workshop, "Introduction to Cloudinary Transformations for Developers", which is available in the Cloudinary Academy. You can view all seven lessons, as well as access code samples and repositories there: https://training.cloudinary.com/courses/introduction-to-cloudinary-transformations-for-developers-55-minute-workshop
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