Plex Cover Art - KP.Media

Make your shelf look the way you want it to, one right-click at a time. Plex Cover Art turns any picture on the web into finished cover art - composed in your browser at 1400x2100, and sent straight to your own Plex server, or saved to your disk for a player that reads its artwork from the folder beside the video. Nothing passes through anyone else, because there is nowhere else. Part of the KP.Media Plex suite, alongside Plex Library Check. Same rule in all of them: your server, your token, your machine - nothing phones home. START IN PLEX. REACH OUT FROM THE LAB. This is the way to use it, and it takes one step less than you would expect. 1. In Plex, right-click the poster of the film you want to change and pick "Set as Plex cover art". 2. The Lab opens already knowing which film you mean, with that item's own poster on the canvas. 3. From the strip at the top, click TMDB, Mediux or IMDb. Those buttons go straight to that film's poster pages - no searching, no typing the title, no chance of landing on the wrong film's artwork. 4. Right-click the poster you like on that site. It comes back into the Lab, on the same film. 5. Dress it, then Apply to Plex. Where a picture comes from and which film it belongs to are two separate facts. Starting in Plex settles the second one first, and every step after it inherits the answer. Work the other way round and the Lab will stop and ask you which film this is - with the name already filled in and the matches listed - and Apply stays shut until you have answered. It is a question you never have to answer if you start in the right place. SAVE A LOOK, THEN GO FAST. A preset holds the look - every control value and where each piece sits - with no artwork inside it, so one saved look serves every title in a run. Ten films took thirty seconds in testing. Designing the look in the first place takes a few minutes; wearing it afterwards costs a pick, a glance and an Apply. THE LOGO PLEX ALREADY HAS Your server usually holds the title's own logo - clean, transparent lettering that came with the match. Press "Logo..." in the strip and it asks for them, then lays them out as thumbnails on a chequerboard so you can judge the kerning and see which cut of the title it is. Take one and it lands on the poster, and joins your library at the same moment. That is the main road. The Lab can also lift a title off a cover when there is no logo to have, and clean up a header that only looks transparent - but where Plex has a logo, the answer is a fetch. WHAT YOU CAN MAKE - A format bar across the poster: [4K] - HDR10 - ATMOS, in your own colours, with boxed words that get their own rounded chips. Double-click a chip, or a word in the line, to box it. - Quick tick boxes for resolution, dynamic range, disc type and audio, filled in for you from the file and its streams. - Season markers for TV: a corner shape, a season bar, bare bold text, or your own banner with the season typed onto it. Six corner silhouettes - triangle, bezel, starburst, calligraphy, circle and star. - Your own PNG laid on top as a header, or a case template wrapped around the artwork - a Blu-ray or DVD frame with a transparent window. - Text effects for bare titles: wavy, arcing up or down, or 3D extrusion. AND AS MANY PIECES AS YOU LIKE. Anything the Lab draws can become an ELEMENT - a picture you move, turn and resize on its own. Stack them, link a set so they travel together, open any one of them back up on the panel that drew it, or flatten a whole arrangement into a single new piece. A badge on a plate with words on top is three pieces to the Lab and one graphic to you. YOU DO NOT NEED PLEX TO USE THE LAB Every poster can be saved straight to your computer - for a media manager that is not Plex, for a print, or for later. With no server address and no token set, you can still right-click a picture, dress it, and download the result. Set the Lab to open in disk mode every time if that is all you ever want. The Plex half is optional; the artwork half is not. BUILT SO THE WRONG POSTER DOES NOT LAND ON THE WRONG FILM - The film's name sits directly above the Apply button, beside the artwork. - A target carried over from a previous pick is announced in full, including how long ago it was set, and needs a second press to confirm. - Choosing a different film never replaces artwork you have already dressed. - Apply refuses to run over the placeholder, and reports honestly: if your server takes the upload but does not change the poster on screen, it says so rather than claiming success. - Applied art is locked so a library scan cannot quietly revert it. - And if you change your mind, Undo puts the old poster back - the one you applied stays in the item's own poster list, so nothing is thrown away. KEEPING YOUR WORK An overlay library with no cap on it, for every header, logo and piece you save - tidied, renamed and cleared from the same panel you pick from, with a thumbnail of whatever you have highlighted before you add it. Presets that carry the look and no artwork, so one of them dresses every title and none of them can go stale. Undo and redo, fifteen steps, covering the pieces as well as the controls. The session comes back when you reopen the window, along with whatever you were carrying. SET UP THE WAY YOU WORK A settings window of its own, on the cog. Eight themes, all dark on purpose, with an accent colour you can override. A text size that scales the controls from 80% to 160% without ever shrinking the cover - on a narrow screen the panel gives up columns rather than taking room from the artwork. Contrast settings that sit on top of any theme. A magnifier that samples the canvas, so what you are inspecting is the pixels that will actually be uploaded. A fine-tune factor from 0.1x to 5.0x for the last hair of a placement. Five languages for the part you navigate by. And a folder of your choosing, inside Downloads, for the covers and th…