If you add multiple elements, you can choose how those elements are layered. Other tools let you add frames, text, photo metadata, and other elements to your poster. Posterino automatically adjust the poster layout to fit your new settings. You can also manually tweak any photo well, adjusting its size and rotation, or change the size of all wells at once. You can apply filters-desaturate, sharpen, sepia, and vintage among them-to the entire poster or to individual photos. You can adjust the paper size, orientation, and DPI the background color and texture (or even apply a background image) and the frame, if any, around each photo. Choose your template, and Posterino prompts you to choose the size of the resulting poster (13 standard sizes are available, from 4 by 6 inches up to 20 by 30 inches, though you can add custom paper sizes using the program’s Preferences window), the orientation (portait or landscape), and the resolution, in dots per inch, of the resulting poster file.Īt any time, you can toggle the Preview/Layout switch to modify the layout and attributes of the poster. For example, the collage templates include “365,” a layout designed to chronicle a year with one photo per day. When you launch Posterino, the program presents you with nearly two dozen templates: 13 photo-collage posters, five “photo frames” (posters with just a few photos, tastefully laid out on a nice background), four e-cards (smaller layouts suitable for sending via e-mail), and a blank layout for your own design.
Instead, you want a collage of your favorite photos, artfully arranged, and Posterino 2 is perhaps the best tool for doing just that. But unless you’re making billboards or signs, chances are you don’t want a huge, poster-sized version of a single photo. Apple’s iPhoto and Aperture programs let you turn your high-resolution photos into posters, and other photo services offer similar poster-printing options.