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Lorem Picsum

Lorem Picsum provides an easy way for web developers to get elegant placeholder images. API access is available through simple and intuitive urls like picsum.photos/200/300 for a random 200px x 300px image.

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  • Free
  • Open Source (MIT)

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  1.  Free API
  2.  High-resolution images

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Lorem Picsum was added to AlternativeTo by David on and this page was last updated . Lorem Picsum is sometimes referred to as Unsplash.It. 

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Cyber Nautilus
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This is a programmer's resource - _a web programmer _ to be precise. There are no images to browse and select from because this service sources it's images from Unsplash.

While this service is of great utility and convenience to specialists, if you're just looking for an image or few for your presentation, publication, post etc, be prepared to be able to code your request to fetch what you need.

It is definitely not an alternative to Unsplash, Pixabay, Pexel or other such repositories of freely usable stock images.

[Edited by cy6ernauti1us, January 02]

sam_lucas
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Really convenient, simple, and powerful tool for web developers.

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What is Lorem Picsum?

Lorem Picsum provides an easy way for web developers to get elegant placeholder images. API access is available through simple and intuitive urls like picsum.photos/200/300 for a random 200px x 300px image.

Basic Usage - Just put your image size (width & height) after our URL and you'll get a placeholder. https://picsum.photos/200/300

To get a square image, just put the size you want. https://picsum.photos/200

Grayscale - Use the /g/ path to greyscale the image. https://picsum.photos/g/200/300

List images - Get a list of images by using the /list endpoint. https://picsum.photos/list

FEATURES

  • Free and open-source
  • Easy API-based access
  • Elegant placeholder images provided by Small Unsplash iconUnsplash