Question 1

What is Lorem Picsum?

Accepted Answer

Lorem Picsum is a free placeholder image service that serves real photographs from Unsplash. Instead of grey boxes with text, you get real images at any size — perfect for design mockups, dev layouts and demo content.

Question 2

Can I lock a specific image?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Use a /seed/{name} segment in the URL. The same seed always returns the same image, so your mockup is reproducible. Change the seed to swap the photo without touching the rest of the URL.

Question 3

Does it support blur and grayscale?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Append ?blur=1-10 for blur, ?grayscale to convert to greyscale, or combine both with ?grayscale&blur=2. The query parameters are documented on the official Picsum site and work in all our generated URLs.

Question 4

Are the images royalty free?

Accepted Answer

Lorem Picsum images come from Unsplash and are released under the Unsplash License — free for commercial and non-commercial use, no attribution required. Always check the latest license terms on picsum.photos before shipping production work.

HTML & Markdown snippet