Hints + Tips for Creating, Marketing & Selling Your Yearbook
Tips for Yearbook Deadline Management
We never plan to fail, but many of us fail to plan. You need to make sure to tackle each internal milestone head-on. Address page submission, school portraits, and school holidays. Here are a few questions to consider as you plan for your deadlines. OVERALL QUESTIONS...
Hard Cover Yearbook Available Options
Standard hard cover binding is typically the least expensive of the hard cover binding options, and works well for books with smaller page counts (as low as 24 pages, up to 220 pages). The signatures of the yearbook are gathered together into a book block and then...
YEARBOOK PRINTING BASICS
Yearbook pages fall in numerical sequence when you look at the finished book. They are NOT printed in that sequence. Thankfully, you do need to worry about the mechanics of preparing and submitting pages according to how your publisher prints the pages (unless your...
Digital Photography Hints and Tips for Great Yearbook Photos
DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY: As you know by now, digital cameras are everywhere—including in cell phones and smart phones—but are all cameras alike? If you would like to use digital photos in your yearbook, you should consider following these guidelines. Work with your...
Yearbook Coverage Ideas
In order to help you come up with page content ideas, we have developed this chart to assist you in story and coverage ideas. Page content is divided into most common sections in a high school yearbook listed below. STUDENT LIFE: Activities that usually involve...
Student Portraits and the SPOA Guidelines
Student and staff portraits play a huge role in your yearbook. In most circumstances, portraits make up 25% to 30% of the yearbook. Planning for the school portrait photo day is critical because you will want to be sure to include every student and have each portrait...
Determining Your Yearbook Coverage
Determining what is on every page of your yearbook can be a challenge when you first begin the process. What you can include in your yearbook is determined by when you want your yearbook to arrive. If you want to receive your yearbook before graduation (Spring...
Four Reason Why Online Yearbooks are a Bad Idea
1. Keep in mind a virtual yearbook is saved on an outside vendors server. Only 10% of web businesses last more than one year. What happens when the server disappears along with the vendor? That's right, your yearbook disappears. All that money and time down the...
Yearbook Endsheets
Endsheets are the thick paper that is attached to both the inside of the cover and the printed pages of the yearbook. You will notice that this hard paper is usually left blank in a choice of color or white for autographs from the student body, or it is designed in...
Two New Pictavo Demo Videos are Available!
The new Pictavo Tutorial Video and Community Webinar is now online. View the videos online 24/7 by visiting our HELP CENTER! The 2012-2013 Welcome to Pictavo” video is 33 minutes in length and is great for demonstrating the power of Pictavo. It is designed for new...
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