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Life & fun · August 16, 2014

Unsplash.it – Beautiful placeholders using images from unsplash

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Unsplash.it – Beautiful placeholders using images from unsplash launched on August 16, 2014 with 10 votes and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 12 years on.

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Unsplash.it provides placeholder images for website designers and developers by generating random photos from Unsplash's collection. Users simply add desired dimensions to the URL to receive appropriately sized images, or specify particular images by ID. The service supports additional customization including grayscale and blur effects with adjustable intensity. It's designed for anyone prototyping or mocking up web layouts who needs quick, high-quality placeholder imagery instead of generic patterns.

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Just add your desired image size (width & height) after our URL, and you'll get a random image. Get a specific image by adding /id/{image} to the start of the url. Get the same random image every time based on a seed, by adding /seed/{seed} to the start of the url. Get a grayscale image by appending ?grayscale to the end of the url. Get a blurred image by appending ?blur to the end of the url. You can adjust the amount of blur by providing a number between 1 and 10 . For example, to get a specific image that is grayscale and blurred. If you need a file ending, you can add .jpg to the end of the url. To get an image in the WebP format, you can add .webp to the end of the url. To change the…from unsplash.it

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