Auto-Crop

Posterino 5 allows you to automatically crop a set of images to their subject. To the face, the upper body, or to the main part of the image. All this, with the click of a button. Or - using the new set of auto-crop enabled templates - with no click at all. Just drop your images onto a template and the crop is done.

• If Auto-Crop is enabled for an image, the placeholder icon is no longer just a small camera icon but a symbol hinting to the kind of crop that is applied.
• The Auto-Crop behavior can be controlled via a corresponding inspector panel. Settings exist for the document as a whole and for each individual image.
• A "crop warning" sign appears on an image in case an auto-crop subject, like the face, could not be found on the image.
• Auto-Crop enabled templates get a little "crop" icon below the title to make them easy to spot.

To learn more, go to How to apply Auto-Crop in the online help.

Subject Masking (macOS 14+ only)

On top of the auto-crop feature you can add subject-masking to rid an image of its background. In the most simple case, this makes the background transparent.

• The image inspector panel now features a „Mask Subject“ property to control the masking behavior.
• The image placeholder - the small camera icon - is now longer opaque. This allows the layer behind the image to be visible if parts of the image are transparent. This way images can now have visible backgrounds.
• Subject masking builds on a feature of macOS 14 and later. On previous versions of macOS, subject masking it not available.

Color Palettes

With the image background out of the way, there is room for something new. Something colorful. Posterino 5 comes with a set of color palettes to choose from.

• The color picker has been updated, so you can now page through a set of color palettes.
• There is now a new inspector group called „Document“ holding global document wide settings. Global color schemes can be added here.

Template Power

The new features taken together - the auto-crop, the subject-masking and the color palettes - give Posterino templates a new level of power. Grab a bunch of images, one of the new templates and experience a new stage of Posterino automation and flexibility.

For example, to create a collage yearbook, you just need to drop a set of portrait images onto the right template and you are done. Done with crop, masking, background, placement and all. And in case your image file names correspond to the names of the students, you don't even have to touch the captions.

• Posterino now indicates "new" templates relative to the previous version of Posterino installed on your Mac.
• New templates are marked with a green "New" badge in the template picker and appear under a dedicated "New" category.
• Since the Subject Masking feature is not available on all version of macOS, please note that templates using this feature are not available on versions of macOS 13 or earlier.

Face-Mosaic

Finally, as the sugar on top, some fun.

Based on the beloved Mosaic-Crop action of Posterino, using the new features outlined above and a bit of algorithmic magic, you can create something really special in Posterino: A Face-Mosaic.

How does this work? Basically you take a set of portrait images - from one or from different persons - and you chose a layout for your document. Then you apply the Face-Crop action which will align the faces from the individual images to build one face stretching over all the images of your document. The Face-Crop action can be controlled using a corresponding inspector panel.

To learn more, go to How do I create a Face-Mosaic? in the online help.

Known Issues

• The support for some international languages for the new features described above is not complete yet. It is under way and should arrive within the next two weeks.