Accounts and cloud sync

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Hey everyone. I have been heads down on this for a while and today all three tools flipped to 2.0. A few of you may know the project from its old Cloudflare Pages URL that was a string of random characters, so the first thing worth saying is that it now lives at

>https://postertools.org/

That alone felt like a milestone. The rest of this post is about everything else that changed.

Before getting into the tools individually, one thing worth calling out up front: all three have been reskinned and brought in line visually. Same theme with an individual colour scheme, same layout language, same header structure. They feel like a suite now rather than three separate projects that happen to share a domain. Every tool also has a guided tour accessible from the header, which is the fastest way to get oriented if you are new or returning after a while.

Poster Lab (Previously Poster Overlay)

Poster Lab was essentially rebuilt from the ground up for 2.0. The core change is the Poster Set workflow. Search for a TV show and the tool builds the entire run automatically, one editable card per season plus a show card, with live thumbnails for the whole set. The same workflow handles film collections, with a base collection card plus individually editable cards for each movie. Every card in a set remembers its own state independently, so adjusting one season does not touch the others.

New tools added alongside that structure:

• Built-in poster browsing with TMDB search directly inside the picker, title-aware for shows, seasons, and collections
• Logo tools rebuilt with clearlogo search, drag-on-canvas positioning, X and Y controls, scale, drop shadow, colour tinting, and per-poster persistence
• Season and Collection Labels as dedicated tools with font, size, spacing, colour, vertical positioning, and named pre-sets including a "Pejamas" pre-set for quick matching my existing templates
• Network Logo with pre-set positioning and custom mode with X/Y refinement sliders
• Poster fit in four modes: Stretch, Contain, Cover, and Manual, with per-card scale and offset memory
• Quick Edit Bar above the canvas for fast access to the most common controls without touching the sidebar
• Config management rebuilt with named saves, searchable load, inline rename and delete, and full import and export with merge or replace
• Single poster and full suite downloads as JPEG with context-aware filenames
• Mobile editing expanded into a full tabbed workflow covering Search, Image, Overlays, Logo, Season, and Config, all synced with desktop

Canvas tooling also got a solid pass with bottom gradient controls, cinematic guidelines, upgraded colour pickers, and cleaner image property grouping.

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Card Lab

Card Lab had already been through a lot of iterative updates across 1.x but 2.0 pulls it together properly. The headline changes are around styling control and canvas usability.

Label styling is now fully independent per level. Season and episode labels each have their own number format, label text, alignment, and word-based rendering settings, so you are not locked into a single style for both. Full-word and abbreviated formats are both supported alongside the existing numeric styles.

The thumbnail composition tools got a proper overhaul:

• Zoom and pan now work via sliders, scroll wheel, drag, swipe, and pinch on touch
• Reset Zoom and Reset Position controls for fast iteration without losing your layout
• Crop state saves per episode so framing choices carry when switching between grid and single-card view
• Grid thumbnails now match the individual card framing, which makes it much easier to trust what will export

Other things that have been in the tool for a while but are worth mentioning in context of the overall 2.0 release:

• Manual episode number override with auto-renumbering of subsequent episodes
• Multi-episode support for ranges like 1 and 2
• Roman numeral support for season and episode numbers
• Resolution badges on grid thumbnails
• Drag-and-drop reordering of episodes in the grid
• Per-season selective download with a checkbox modal
• Config export and import for moving between browsers
• Parallel background caching so season switching is near instant for large shows

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Showcase Lab (Previously Poster Showcase)

Showcase Lab probably has the most visible day-to-day improvements for anyone who uses it regularly. The manual set ID hunting is largely gone (will be even better when the Mediux API is fully up and running).

• Show title search: type a name, pick from TMDB results, and all available Mediux sets load automatically
• TMDB backdrop search and clearlogo search both work inside the tool without downloading anything first
• Quick Edit Bar with grid columns, section toggles, blur, logo scale, hero opacity, hero layout, and visual pre-set in one floating bar above the canvas
• Three visual pre-sets: Classic, Sharp, and Soft
• Side hero layout as an alternative to the centred default
• Per-section column counts for posters, album art, and titlecards independently
• Section visibility matrix: the title, divider, and info row can each be toggled per artwork type
• Drag to reorder artwork within sections, and individual image deletion without clearing the whole section
• Background blur applied as a live CSS filter so the level can be adjusted without re-uploading
• Save Config rebuilt as a grouped checkbox panel covering Credits, Appearance, Grid, and Section Visibility, and saved preferences survive the reset button
• Featured Poster mode: toggle the first poster into a larger featured layout, with the remaining items filling the grid alongside it

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That is everything. It took longer than I expected, went in directions I did not plan, and is genuinely better for both of those things. If you have used any version of these tools before I think 2.0 will feel like a different product, and if you are new the tours are the best place to start.