Supplying yearbook photos to SPC Yearbooks

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Supplying yearbook photos to SPC YearbooksAlthough there’s quite a bit to organise when creating a yearbook, this article will hopefully offer helpful advice and guidance on supplying photos to include in your yearbook profile, montage and trips pages. If anything is still unclear however, please don’t hesitate to give us a call.

Send the best quality pictures you can and ideally rename digital images with the full name of the student. Place each class’s photos in a separate folder.

Supplying photos from a professional photographer

• If you are using your official school photos in your yearbook, then please ask your photographer to supply images on a CD at a minimum of 300dpi at a size of 50x40mm (dpi means dots per inch – a measure of resolution).

• Note that many photographers only supply the school with low resolution images for use on the school’s admin systems. You may need to contact them in order to get the images at a printable resolution and pay a small fee for them to send you a new CD.

• Please call us on 01480 410435 if you need any help or advice.

Supplying photos from your digital camera

If you are going to take yearbook photos yourself, make sure that you use at least the ‘normal’ or ‘high’ image quality setting, or your camera’s equivalent.

• It is a good idea to stand everyone in front of the same colour background for consistency.

• Make sure that you are the same distance away when taking all the photographs so that the students appear at the same size.

Missing Photos of Students/Staff

If students are absent or do not supply a yearbook photo you can either leave a blank box, use a silhouette or other image of your choice. Alternatively you could have a list at the end of each class.

Reusing an Existing Yearbook Design

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Reusing an Existing Yearbook DesignIf your school has produced a yearbook in the past with SPC Yearbooks and you liked the look of the design, you can use these again for your new project – just speak to one of our Yearbook Account Managers by calling 01480 410435 or email yb@spc-yearbooks.co.uk.

If your school previously used our Complete Design or Pre-designed Template service to produce a yearbook then that design was unique to your school. If you wish to reuse the design, we may be able to give you a discount if it saves design hours for us.

Reusing an Existing Yearbook Design – Yearbook Creator
If your school produced a yearbook using the SPC Yearbook Creator software and you would like to use the design again but on a different computer, please follow the
instructions below. You will need access to the computer used to create the previous version.

  • Open the “SPC Page Creator Projects” folder on the computer holding last year’s project. On a PC, this can be found in “My Documents”, and on a Mac in “Users > Documents”.
  • The folder contains many files. The one you need is the PRJ file and should bear a name resembling the project name. Copy this file (e.g. to a pen drive or network) in order to move it to the new computer.
  • Ensure that the Yearbook Creator Software is installed on the computer you intend to use for the new project. 
  • Insert the PRJ File into the “SPC Yearbook Creator Projects” folder on the new computer. Once this has been done you will have the previous yearbook project ready to edit. Its now just a matter of you removing what you don’t want in the project and adding what you do.

Click here to download our How To guide on ‘Reusing an Existing Yearbook Design’.

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Help! Our school wants leavers hoodies, but where do we start?

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School hoodie information from SPC YearbooksWhat leavers hoodie designs are available?

SPC Yearbooks offer 16 artwork choices for the back of your hoodie – 8 classic and 8 modern, all of which cleverly incorporate your whole years’ names into the design. You have the option to personalise your individual hoodies with each student’s name (or nickname) on the back or front. The school logo and school name can be screen printed or embroidered onto the front of each hoodie too.

Take a look at more hoodie designs here.

What does the school need to provide?

We need a class list of names to go into the artwork, we also need to know which design your would like for the hoodie reverse and how many hoodies in total you wish to order.

Details of hoodie style, sizes and colours you require, also what (if any), personalisation needs to go on each person’s hoodie can be filled in on our hoodie order form.

Have you looked at the hoodie designs yet? Download the hoodies flyer here.

Are there any special discounts?

Yes, you can get a massive 20% off your leavers hoodies if you also order a yearbook with SPC Yearbooks.

How do I order our school hoodies?

Call an advisor on 01480 410432, visit our website or email us at yb@spc-yearbooks.co.uk to find out more.

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Yearbook Theme Ideas – Classic Yearbook Page Designs

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Yearbook theme ideas - classic yearbook page designsIf your yearbook requires a classic, unfussy design which relates to your school logo or colours, read on for SPC’s top 3 yearbook theme design ideas…

1. Study your school logo for inspiration – what colours are used? What shapes? Could you use the logo as a background for your page numbers (folios) or as part of your page title artwork?

2. Pick a single colour (this could be one of your school’s colours, or another colour of your choice), and use a solid band of this colour at the top and/or bottom of your yearbook page to create a letterbox area for your content. Keep this design exactly the same size and in the same position on every yearbook page for a structured, uniform look. The colour itself could change per tutor group/class or per section of your yearbook, and it’s a great place to house your page title.

3. You can rarely go wrong with a clean white background in your yearbook, but if you are using a single colour (or even two colours) on your yearbook pages, try a background which is a lighter shade of one of those colours – for example, if using a navy blue title bar – use a very light navy blue background. Alternatively use a texture which is light in colour, for example, canvas or handmade paper. This will retain a clean look but adds interest to your yearbook pages.

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Yearbook Theme Ideas – Vintage Chic and Patriotic

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Yearbook design Theme Ideas Vintage Chic and PatrioticIn spirit of the upcoming Jubilee celebrations and the popularity of vintage style and influence, here are yearbook theme ideas and design tips based around vintage chic and patriotic artwork for your yearbook. If you missed out on our previous yearbook theme ideas click here to see more.

Patriotic theme – using flags

Incorporate flags into your yearbook design – this could be bunting across the top of each yearbook page or across the middle to break the page up into sections.

Use flag artwork for your background – for a touchable, textured appearance use a canvas or fabric printed flag, or manipulate your flag using photo-editing software to achieve a texture effect (in Photoshop use Filters).

Add flags as decorative items to your yearbook pages. If you are an international school, why not include each students’ flag as part of their profile page or section?

Original vintage vs modern vintage yearbook themes

Yearbooks from the 1920s to the 1960s are fascinating to browse – the clothes, haircuts and general design and style of the yearbooks. If you’re looking for clean and simple vintage design inspiration, these are great to look at. Colour pages were a rare novelty back in those days, so how lucky are we to have full colour yearbooks these days? This blogger’s husband is an avid collector of old yearbooks and has a few photos of original yearbooks from the past: http://diydelray.com/2011/11/29/looking-at-the-past-through-vintage-yearbooks/

If you would prefer to use more modern vintage artwork in your yearbook, choose pastel colour backgrounds (blue, green, grey, purple, orange, pink, brown, etc.) and vintage influence patterns such as polka dots, candy stripes, stars, checks, etc.

Why not crown those victorious on your awards page? Design your own crown to incorporate into the yearbook page. Elaborate, decorative photo frames fit perfectly with any vintage yearbook theme – use frames in your montage pages and/or for each student photo on your profile pages.

Don’t forget you can add your own clipart, scrapbook items and frames to our design your own yearbook software, save images as .png so that they have a transparent background before uploading them to either Yearbook Creator or Yearbook Designer Live.

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