Unsplash.It offers a great selection of amazing placeholder images from Unsplash. They’ve served over 75 million images so far, with 726 images (and counting) available. Just input your image size (width & height) after the URL and you’ll get a placeholder. You can even specify random images, or make images grayscale, blurred, and more. It’s an amazing way to speed up the development process, just copy and paste a simple line of code and you’re done! The service is free too, definitely worth trying out.
Basic Usage
Just put your image size (width & height) after our URL and you’ll get a placeholder.
https://unsplash.it/600/300
To get a square image, just put the size you want.
https://unsplash.it/200
Random image
Get a random image by appending ?random to the end of the url.
https://unsplash.it/200/300/?random
Grayscale
Use the /g/ path to greyscale the image.
https://unsplash.it/g/200/300
Blurred image
Get a blurred image by appending ?blur to the end of the url.
https://unsplash.it/200/300/?blur
Crop Gravity
Select the cropping gravity by adding ?gravity to the end of the url. Valid options are: north, east, south, west, center
https://unsplash.it/200/300/?gravity=east
And that’s it, great images for a test site with a single URL!
