Card Lab from Poster-Tools is a powerful web-based title card creation tool designed specifically for media collectors and Plex/Emby/Jellyfin users. Create beautiful, consistent title cards with intuitive controls and professional styling options.

Key Features

🔍 TMDB Integration

• Search for any TV show and automatically load all episode information

• Browse and select from all available season thumbnails

• Batch download entire seasons with consistent styling

🎨 Powerful Text Styling

• Customize fonts, sizes, colors, shadows, and outlines

• Independent control over title and episode information text

• Multiple text wrapping options with adjustable line spacing

• Rich gradient effects with blend mode controls

📐 Professional Positioning

• 6 preset text positions (Left Middle, Center Middle, Right Middle, etc.)

• Fine-tune text placement with horizontal offset controls

• Apply custom positioning settings to individual episodes

🖼️ Image Options

• Upload custom thumbnails or use TMDB episode stills

• Full-size or standard background image options

• Apply gradient overlays with adjustable opacity

💾 Save & Load Configurations

• Save your custom designs for specific shows

• Quickly apply your favorite styles to new content

• Maintain consistent branding across your media collection

📦 Batch Processing

• Create and download entire seasons of title cards at once

• Preview all cards in a grid layout before exporting

• Each card can have custom settings or use global defaults

Card Lab provides an elegant, user-friendly interface with real-time preview of your changes. Whether you're creating title cards for a single show or your entire collection, Card Lab gives you professional results with no design experience required.

Visit Poster-Tools and check out Card Lab along with Poster Showcase and Poster Overlay for a complete media presentation toolkit!

Note: Yes I'm aware Title Card Maker (TCM) exists, but the idea behind this project was to make something that requires no install what so ever, no 3rd party apps. Its just viewing a webpage and creating title cards at ease. It still needs some polish and I'm more than happy to add features or additional options.

For the past few weeks/months, I have been working on an automated solution to create title cards that I call TitleCardMaker. I have currently used it to make just over 50,000 individual cards, and I think it's finally in a good development spot that I figured I should share it here on the subreddit.

I've put in a lot of effort to document the program's use and design on the GitHub Wiki, but the headlining features are:

• Create cards automatically, and without using any paid software

• Optionally detect/query episode titles from Sonarr, or specify them manually

• Optionally download background/source images from TMDb

• Can automatically load the cards into Plex

• Supports customizable episode file naming schemes

• Should work on any OS - I have tested MacOS, UnraidOS, and Windows 10 so far

• Supports any arbitrary "style" of card, which can be specified down to a per-series-basis

  • I've implemented three styles of cards, based off the following cards:

    • /u/UniversalPolymath's "standard" card format - example

    • /u/Recker_Man's "anime" card format - example

    • /u/Olivier_286's "star wars" card fomat - example

• Automatically detects multi-part episodes, such as Finale (Part 1) and Finale (Part 2), and creates combined cards

• Per-show configuration of card font/color/size/position, season titles, card type, episode text, etc..

If this sounds interesting, check out the project on GitHub, and let me know if you have any questions or problems!

2025 edit: Since the original posting, I have created a web UI version of the software - I've got details here for those who are not interested in using a command line tool.