Helpful web tool: Placehold.it

Posted by Kent Downer on August 25, 2010 at 12:42 pm.

Have you ever been working on a design and need to insert a placeholder image to show where a graphic will go? The typical process is something like this: open photoshop, create a new image, enter the size you need, change the background color, add some text and then save it. Here’s a handy web-based tool to replace that process: http://placehold.it/ .

Mundane task, done in less time, equals a happy designer.


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  • Comment posted by Edward O'Connor on August 25, 2010 at 1:15 pm
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  • There are a bunch of these out there; I generally prefer IpsumImage.

  • Comment posted by Kent on August 26, 2010 at 5:27 pm
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  • Thanks for the link Edward. Yes, There are definitely a number of flavors of it out there. Most of them, Placehold.it is just a variation of Russell Heimlich’s Dummy Image. I just really liked how this site implemented it.

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