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Instagram posters for newsrooms

The news won’t wait for the designer. Now it doesn’t have to.

FastGen is an Arabic-first poster maker for newsrooms. The designer builds the template once. Editors swap in the photo and headline, then export for Instagram in minutes.

Runs in your browser. Nothing to install.

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The FastGen editor: a news poster headlined “6G connectivity trials begin”, beside the settings for its headline — text, box, position and margins.

11:40 p.m.

At 11:40 p.m., the story breaks.

The photo is in. The headline is written. The designer has gone home.

So someone opens last night’s file, types over the old headline and hunts for the right font. The logo drifts. The strap moves. By the time the poster goes out, it no longer looks like your newsroom.

Fast usually costs you your look. It doesn’t have to.

What you get

Four features, each stated as the outcome it gives the desk.

Locked templates, so every poster keeps your look.

Your logo, type and colors stay where the designer put them, whoever is on shift.

OpenType and right-to-left, built in, so Arabic headlines read right.

Arabic, English and mixed headlines work from the first word, in your own licensed fonts, with OpenType features in the editor.

Photo tools, so the picture is ready before it goes out.

Paint a brush over anything that should not be in the photo, then remove it with AI, blur it or pixelate it. AI Extend fills the empty space around a photo: your original goes back on top, pixel for pixel, and you review every result.

One plan for the whole desk, so everyone can make posters.

Bring your editors and admins into one organization. Plans are flat per organization, not per seat.

The designer builds it once. The editor tells the story.

  1. Editor permissions for a template: Background and Main Content visible to editors, Logo, Margin Text, Supportive Info and Post size hidden

    The designer sets the rules.

    Layout, type, logo and colors, then what an editor can change and what stays locked.

  2. The editor as an editor sees that template: the headline’s field beside the poster

    The editor swaps in the story.

    Photo, headline, done. In minutes, and whatever the designer locked stays put.

  3. The Export menu open beside the poster: JPEG or PNG, each from 1x to 4x

    Then get the news out.

    Export for Instagram as JPEG or PNG.

FastGen doesn’t replace your designer. It is how their work reaches every poster.

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See it in action

Four news posters, each from its own template.

  • An Arabic poster: two TV presenters facing each other, split by a thin orange line, over the headline on oil prices and basic goods

    An interview

  • An Arabic poster: two quotes on digital currencies side by side, a portrait above each and the speaker’s name below, split by a lightning-bolt line

    Two quotes

  • An English poster: a refinery behind the headline “Middle East oil crisis deepens”, with a yellow Geopolitics News label

    A headline

  • An English poster: a tower at sunrise above a Breaking News band and the headline “6G connectivity trials begin”

    Breaking news

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Every size your feeds need

Square and portrait posts, Stories and YouTube covers. Choose a size and the poster is redrawn at it, then exported at full resolution.

  • The breaking-news poster in the square size

    Square 1:1

    1080 × 1080 px

  • The same poster in the 4:5 portrait size

    Portrait 4:5

    1080 × 1350 px

  • The same poster in the 3:4 portrait size

    Portrait 3:4

    1080 × 1440 px

  • The same poster in the Story size

    Story 9:16

    1080 × 1920 px

  • The same poster in the YouTube cover size

    YouTube cover 16:9

    1920 × 1080 px

Type and photo tools, built in

Set Arabic type the way its font was drawn, and get the photo ready, all on the poster itself.

The headline’s OpenType features in the editor, with discretionary ligatures and stylistic alternates turned on, beside the poster’s Arabic headline drawn with them

OpenType features

Upload your own licensed fonts and turn on what they offer: ligatures, stylistic alternates and stylistic sets. Each one is previewed in your own headline before you pick it.

The brush open on the poster: part of the tower pixelated, and red marks over the sun ready for AI Remove

Blur, Pixelate & Remove

Paint over a face or a number plate to blur or pixelate it. The photo itself is never changed, so the eraser takes it off again. Or mark what shouldn’t be there and remove it with AI.

Extend with AI in the Background tab, beside a poster whose photo leaves empty space above and at the sides

Extend with AI

When a photo doesn’t fill the poster, the AI paints the empty space around it. Your photo goes back on top, pixel for pixel, so nothing in it is made up. It works for the background and for the images in Main Content.

The Adjustments sliders, with contrast, saturation, temperature, highlights and shadows moved, beside the poster’s warmer photo

Colors and lighting

Exposure, contrast, saturation, temperature, tint, highlights and shadows, each on its own slider, with the poster changing as you move it. Reset all puts the photo back as it was.

Who it is for

FastGen suits any newsroom that puts posters on Instagram. Inside each, three roles:

  • Daily news desks
  • Digital-first outlets
  • Regional publishers

Designers and creative directors

Build the template once and decide, control by control, what editors can change.

Editors

Open a template, swap in the photo and headline, and export. No design skills needed.

Admins

Look after the team, the fonts and the brand colors.

Plans

Prices are flat per organization, not per seat.

Basic

$12 / month
$120 / year

$10 a month, billed yearly · save 17%


  • 100 posters a month
  • 32 AI edits a month
  • 3 typefaces
  • Up to 3 people
  • Up to 32 templates

Ultra

$69 / month
$690 / year

$57.50 a month, billed yearly · save 17%


  • 2,000 posters a month
  • 200 AI edits a month
  • 10 typefaces
  • Up to 12 people
  • Up to 132 templates

Included in every plan

  • Locked templates and roles
  • Right-to-left Arabic editor with OpenType features
  • JPEG and PNG export
  • Two-step sign-in and passkeys

Custom: let’s talk.

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Questions

Does FastGen replace our designer?

No. The designer builds the template and decides what editors can change. FastGen is how their work reaches every poster.

What do we need to get started?

A browser and an account. Sign in and you are in the editor. Nothing to install.

Which browsers and devices work?

Any up-to-date Chrome, Edge, Safari or Firefox, on a computer, a tablet or a phone. Designers build templates on a computer or a tablet. On a phone, editors swap the photo and the headline and export. A poster comes out the same from every browser.

Can we use our own fonts?

Yes. Upload your licensed fonts. How many depends on your plan.

Do we need licenses for the fonts we upload?

Yes. Upload only fonts you are licensed to use.

Who can see our photos and templates?

Only your organization. We never use them to train AI.

How many editors can we add?

Each plan says how many people it includes, admins and editors together. Plans are priced per organization, not per seat.

Does the AI change my photo?

Only where you tell it to. AI Extend fills the empty space around a photo, and your original goes back on top untouched. Remove with AI works only inside the area you paint with the brush.

Can we cancel or get a refund?

Yes, at any time: contact us. A monthly plan stays active until the end of the month you paid for, and then stops. Cancel a yearly plan within 14 days of a yearly payment, the first or a renewal, and you get that payment back in full. After those 14 days, it stays active until the end of the year you paid for. Nothing you made is deleted when a plan ends. The details are in our Terms.

At 11:40 p.m., the poster still looks like yours.

Breaking news, on brand.

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