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    Lorem Picsum

    Lorem Ipsum for photos, Lorem Picsum provides elegant placeholder images from Unsplash

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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
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    • Top positive comment  over 2 years ago • 0 replies
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    Really convenient, simple, and powerful tool for web developers.

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    cy6ernauti1us
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    • Top negative comment  about 2 years ago • 0 replies
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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]

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    Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about Lorem Picsum, and it has gotten 7 likes

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    Lorem Picsum was added to AlternativeTo by Ugotsta on Jun 21, 2016 and this page was last updated Apr 29, 2019. Lorem Picsum is sometimes referred to as Unsplash.It.

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