My property manager sent me a 5 star review request on Thursday and followed it up with a 7am text to remind me yesterday then a 6pm phone call that I didn't answer. Are they having a fucking laugh or what? This kind of behavior should be reportable right?
Yes, its me again posting about poster tools again, what can I say, I'm just really passionate about this project.
It’s designed as a central dashboard for keeping track of your movie/show library artwork, especially if you’re using Emby, Jellyfin, or Plex. Instead of jumping between labs and guessing what’s already done, Media Hub gives you a cleaner overview of what still needs custom artwork.
What it does:
The idea is to use Media Hub as the starting point, then move into the labs when something needs work. If you’re curating a big library, it should make the whole flow feel a lot less messy. This is especially noticeable when you are making posters and cards for the same show.
Would love feedback from anyone who tries it, especially around the workflow from Media Hub into Poster Lab/Card Lab and back.
On a side note, for those that aren't aware the purpose of thumb lab, mainly on Emby (jellyfin has both options) the continue watching row uses a landscape image saved as a "thumb" rather than the episode title cards which is the purpose of that tool. Can also be used to make genre images too (images above) as an example.
The home page also got a nice new cinematic feel, as well as many bug fixes across the tools.
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.
Poster Lab now has a proper badge system with three independent slots:
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.
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.
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:
No token hunting, no URL copying.
A few things worth calling out specifically for Card Lab:
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.
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
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
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:
Canvas tooling also got a solid pass with bottom gradient controls, cinematic guidelines, upgraded colour pickers, and cleaner image property grouping.
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:
Other things that have been in the tool for a while but are worth mentioning in context of the overall 2.0 release:
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).
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.
