Blog | Tips & Ideas to Help You with Your Yearbook

Hints + Tips for Creating, Marketing & Selling Your Yearbook

Downloadable Sales Flyers

To assist you with your online Pictavo BuyTheYearbook Sales and Photo Uploads, we offer free downloadable take home flyers that can be distributed to your parents providing them with step-by-step instructions on How to Purchase Yearbooks online, How to Design and...

Thank You for Attending Our Workshop

Good Afternoon! Thank you for attending our YearbookLife Workshop. We always enjoy having the opportunity to meet with everyone in person and share and discuss ideas. We know we covered a lot of information in a short amount of time. Please contact us if any of the...

YearbookLife Workshop Topics

On Friday, October 17th 2014, we will be holding our annual "Yearbook Workshop." We recommend new and long time yearbook advisers attend to get valuable tips to help make the yearbook process as stress free as possible. The following topics will be discussed. We look...

Pictavo Page Layout Tips – Part 1

BLEEDS • The yellow border around the page in Pictavo is the bleed area. All color blocks and candids that are intended to extend off the page (or bleed) should completely extend to the outer edge of the yellow area. This will eliminate slivers of white at the edges...

Club and Administration Photography Helpful Hints

PHOTOGRAPHY SHOULD START 8:30am or 9:00am - Photography ends usually before 12:00pm Best days to schedule your photos is on Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday - Monday students forget and Friday they’re ready to go home Be sure there are no field trips, school wide...

Cover Personalization Options and Requirements

Please refer to the Personalization Brochure contained in your kit that outlines the different options available and the requirements of each. Please contact us for pricing for the option you would like to use. There is a 25 name minimum requirement. If that...

New Pictavo Features for 2014-2015

Here is a list of some of the new features in Pictavo for the 2014-2015 school year: SNIPPETS • New collection of design elements • Professionally designed mini-templates featuring items like sidebars, infographics, headlines, scoreboards, polls, quotes and more •...

Pictavo Training Available at YearbookLife

We want you to have a stress free yearbook season and, to that end, we have Pictavo training available to you and your yearbook team at no charge. We hope that you will take advantage of the following options: 1. Personalized Webinar: Would you like to schedule a...

Welcome to the 2014-2015 Yearbook Season

Welcome to YearbookLife - we look forward to working with you this year! Everything is in place for you to begin creating your 2014-2015 yearbook! Within 24 hours, you will receive an email titled "Welcome to Pictavo" from production@pictavo.com. This email contains...

Submitting Your PDF Yearbook Files

Once you have completed the steps to prepare your yearbook pages, submit all of your materials, along with your completed Production Form, for printing. Once we receive your book, we will preflight for potential problems. If you are submitting PDF files, you will have...