# Uploading an image of a canvas to cloudinary

**URL:** <https://community.thunkable.com/t/uploading-an-image-of-a-canvas-to-cloudinary/989016>\
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\
**Created:** [November 21, 2020, 7:22am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/uploading-an-image-of-a-canvas-to-cloudinary/989016 "2020-11-21T07:22:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 11, 2021, 3:36pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/uploading-an-image-of-a-canvas-to-cloudinary/989016/38 "2021-06-11T15:36:29Z")

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Okay, I think I missed a crucial point from [this topic](https://community.thunkable.com/t/share-save-canvas-image/464874):

> this block returns a canvas image in base64 text format

I didn’t realize that the `image of Canvas` block was converting to base64. I’m curious if/why that’s different than using the green Photo block.

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