Question 1

What is a placeholder image URL?

Accepted Answer

A placeholder image URL points to an image served by a placeholder service (like placehold.co or picsum.photos). You embed it in your HTML while building a site so layouts look realistic before you have final artwork — the service renders the image on the fly.

Question 2

Which placeholder image services are supported?

Accepted Answer

This generator builds URLs for four popular services: placehold.co (custom size, colors and text), dummyimage.com (similar with format options), picsum.photos (random real photos by Lorem Picsum) and via.placeholder.com. Each has slightly different URL syntax, which the builder handles for you.

Question 3

Can I add custom text and colors to a placeholder?

Accepted Answer

Yes. With placehold.co and dummyimage.com you can set a background color, text color and custom label (like your dimensions or a project name). picsum.photos serves random stock photos instead and does not support custom text.

Question 4

Do I need to upload anything?

Accepted Answer

No. This tool only builds a URL string in your browser. The actual image is fetched from the placeholder service when a visitor loads your page — nothing is uploaded from your side.