Day Player 
A Sketch Plugin for creating placeholder images from online services.
Installation
- Download the latest version (3.0.0)
- Unzip the file
- Double-click Day Player.sketchplugin to install
What Does It Do?
It allows you to insert customized placeholder images into any Sketch document from a number of different placeholder image services:
How to use it
- Open a new or existing Sketch document
- Plugins > Day Player > Service...
- Update the options to your liking, OK/Enter
- The image is created on the canvas
Appending images to an Artboard or Group
- Open a new or existing Sketch document
- Select the Artboard or Group
- Plugins > Day Player > Service...
- Update the options to your liking, OK/Enter
- The image is created within the Artboard or Group
- Image will be placed in the top left corner of the Artboard or Group
Artboard:
Group:
Creating images with dimensions and position of existing Layers
- Open a new or existing Sketch document
- Select the desired Layer
- Plugins > Day Player > Service...
- Update the options to your liking, OK/Enter
- The image is created in the parent group of the selected layer
- Image will inherit the x, y, width, and height of the selected layer
Advanced Service Options
All services offer width, height, and black & white / color options. Unsplash.it and Placehold.it offer further options to customize the placeholder images.
Unsplash.it:
Placehold.it:
Contributing to this project
As with most open source projects, pull requests for bug fixes, and new functionality are always welcome.
Prerequisites
- Node
5.x.x+
Fork this repo and clone a local copy of your fork.
Install dependencies:
npm install
Create necessary application bundle from source by running:
make install
Watch the src and resources directories and recompile when changes are made by running:
make watch
make install and make watch will copy the application bundle to the default Sketch plugins location ~/Library/Application Support/com.bohemiancoding.sketch3/Plugins/ as Day Player.sketchplugin.
See the Makefile for further details on the build process.