Poster Tools: Big new additions since 2.0
Accounts and cloud sync
The biggest structural addition since 2.0. There is now a free account system shared across the site. Sign in and your badge presets, named configs, custom fonts, and lab preferences follow you across devices automatically. Server connection details live in your account too, so setting up on a second machine is just sign in and go and fully secured through clerk, no more browser based api key or credential saving.
The Pro tier unlocks the server integrations and additional font/separator uploads (30 day free trial). The core design tools stay free.
Badges
Poster Lab now has a proper badge system with three independent slots:
- 4K
- HDR / Dolby Vision
- Audio codec
All three render together on the canvas. There are 38+ styles across the categories and the whole panel collapses in the sidebar until you need it. Size is a continuous slider rather than small/medium/large presets. Named presets let you save combinations like "4K + DV + Atmos" and switch between them in one click from both the sidebar and the Quick Edit Bar.
Dark Matte and Criterion overlays
Two new overlays added to Poster Lab.
Dark Matte this one is a big favorite around here, now anyone can make them with ease!
Criterion Spine is a full recreation of the Criterion Collection format with four independent colour pickers for the logo, spine box, year box, and font. It pulls the release year from metadata automatically.
Emby, Jellyfin, and Plex
Both labs now connect directly to your media server. The Emby and Jellyfin integration gives you a browsable library dashboard with genre, quality, and filter controls, grid and list view, and bulk selection. You can load existing artwork from the server onto the canvas and push replacements back without touching the server interface.
Poster Lab also has a Quality Rules system that auto-applies badge presets based on media flags. Just set the preference in the emby dashboard and when you open a 4K Dolby Vision title from Emby the right badges are already configured, wont pull badges in unless you enable this preset option.
Emby and Jellyfin both use the same connection settings in account but you can toggle the theme to your preference based on what server you have. Note: Server must be behind a reverse proxy/tailscale funnel etc to be accessed.
Plex support landed recently with the same browsing, loading, and push capability. The connection flow is:
- Hit Connect with Plex
- Sign in through the Plex page in a popup
- Pick your server from the list
No token hunting, no URL copying.
Card Lab additions
A few things worth calling out specifically for Card Lab:
- Custom separator images. Upload a PNG or SVG to replace the default line between metadata and title, with size and vertical nudge controls
- Auto-loading configs. Named configs now apply automatically when you open a show they were saved for
- Pipe line breaks. Typing | in an episode title forces a line break at that point, useful for longer titles where automatic wrapping does not land where you want
- Push summary. After sending cards to Emby or Jellyfin the summary now lists each episode individually with its result rather than a generic count
Network logo placement
The network logo controls now have a nine-point anchor grid. Pick any corner, edge, or centre position and offset from there with sliders. Placements save as named presets that sync alongside your badge presets and season label presets.
Suggestion Page
Lastly but not least, the site now has a Feature request page to be able to easy suggest new features, changes, vote for existing requests etc with updates on progress.
As usual the site can be found here: postertools.org
