Create Perfectly Sized Cover Images for Dev.to

As a heads up, I'm making this post as a plug for my Image Titler tool that I've been developing in my spare time for a little over a year now:

TheRenegadeCoder / image-titler

An image title generator using The Renegade Coder style

Image Titler

The Image Titler is a tool which provides options for generating thumbnails for various social media platforms Currently, the tool has a predefined style which looks roughly like the following image:

To see more examples, check out our list of samples.

How to Run

The following code snippet demonstrates a few ways you might use the script:

pip install image-titler # Installs the script
image-titler # Runs as default
image-titler --title "Hello, World!"  # Adds a custom title
image-titler --output_path "path/to/output"  # Sets the output path
image-titler --path "path/to/image"  # Sets the image path
image-titler --tier "free"  # Sets the membership tier which changes the rectangle borders
image-titler --logo_path "path/to/logo"  # Adds a 145x145 logo to the lower left corner of the image
image-titler --batch  # Runs the program in batch mode on a directory
image-titler --font

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Basically, it's a Python tool for generating cover images with titles on them. I originally developed it to speed up the process of creating featured images for my own website, but now I'm trying to get it in front of a larger audience.

To do that, I recently added a feature in v2.3.2 that automatically resizes and crops images for the dev.to platform (1000x420). Here's a demo of the GUI using the image from this article:

If you're interested in using this tool yourself, grab the latest version of Python (3.8+) and run the following commands:

pip install image-titler
image-titler-gui

That'll launch up this tool, so you can begin making your own cover images. When you're done, feel free to let me know what you think!