Yearbook page ideas – Celebrate school romance and couples…

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Yearbook page ideas - Celebrate school romance and couplesDedicate a page or two to school romance in your yearbook. Celebrate old flames (or even the couples that never were) by putting together a yearbook page or spread with couples’ names and photos. Maybe choose some yearbook awards for couples such as ‘cutest couple’, ‘longest relationship’, ‘most unlikely couple’.

Has Cupid been unkind and left you single? Why not use a yearbook page to confess biggest crushes or the romances that should have been. These will only be revealed when the yearbook is given out – who had a secret crush on you?

Relationships are a big part of school life so record them in your yearbook for others to look back on in twenty years time. If your school organises regular reunions, see which of those couples are still together (or have got together since school), and revisit those cute yearbook snaps when they first got together. Wouldn’t it be great to present your yearbook to couples on their wedding day in the future? Or perhaps they’ll become the next hottest celebrity couple and your yearbook will prove you went to school with them!

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How to crop and resize photos in Yearbook Creator and Yearbook Designer Live! software

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How to crop and resize yearbook photos and pictures in Yearbook Creator and Yearbook Designer Live softwareYearbook Creator

  1. To keep the original proportions of your image, drag and drop your photo from the ‘Pictures’ panel straight onto your yearbook page.
  2. To enlarge or reduce the size of your image hold the Shift key when dragging the corners of your images, this will keep your image in it’s original proportions. Alternatively, check that ‘Constrain Proportions’ is ticked in the Inspector panel (under the menu represented by a small ruler icon).
  3. Double-click the image on your page to open the ‘Crop Picture…’ window, here you can crop your image.

When using pre-designed Page Styles, using the ‘Fit picture to box’ option can save time, but depending on the format of your image i.e. portrait or landscape, can determine how well your image fits inside a pre-placed picture box.

To choose different fitting options, right-click on the image and select ‘Fit’. Remember you can double-click on the image to alter the crop area.

Yearbook Designer Live!

  1. Drag and drop your image either straight onto your yearbook page, or drop it into a ‘Drag & drop’ image box on a pre-designed layout (these can be found in the ‘Layouts’ tab). The online software automatically fits your image to the box.
  2. You can change the size and proportions of the box by dragging either corner (where the yellow square handles are located). The image will automatically refit to this box size and shape.
  3. To move your image around inside the image box, simply click once on the image to load the ‘Edit Options’ window. Use the ‘Move’ arrows to move your image up, down, left or right. To zoom in, use the Zoom slider.

If you would like to see the whole of the image, make your picture proportions as close to the original image as you can, for example, if you drag on a landscape photo – drag the yellow square handles to make the picture box landscape until you see the whole of your image.

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Social bookmarking – ways to gather yearbook ideas and inspiration online…

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Bookmark yearbook inspiration and ideasSocial bookmarking tools are readily available to help gather ideas and keep sites of interest recorded to look back at later. These are great tools for yearbook inspiration as you’re not relying on using the same computer to access bookmarks – you can login to the chosen bookmarking site and access all the websites you saved.

Established social bookmarking sites such as Stumble Upon, Digg, Redditt and Delicious allow you to save website addresses and share these with others. The latest buzz bookmarking site is Pinterest, In a nutshell, this is a virtual pin board where you can create different pin boards (or mood boards) and pin images from websites using a handy button in your browser. As soon as you find inspirational ideas for your yearbook, simply ‘pin it’. You can also search other people’s pin boards for inspirational ideas and ‘re-pin’ things to your own board.

Social bookmarking is great for:

Yearbook Inspiration - any visuals that inspire and excite you. These don’t have to be yearbook related – for example, if you’ve decided to go with a vintage theme and want to find visuals to inspire you when designing your own yearbook, or creating a design brief to have your yearbook professionally designed – look at fashion, homewares, old movie posters, vintage photographs, etc. and bookmark them as inspiration to come back to later.

Yearbook Tools - SPC Yearbooks‘ can provide you with lots of help, advice and tools needed for various stages of your yearbook project, including collecting content and photos, but if you come across other tools to help you, such as photo tutorials, why not bookmark them?

Happy bookmarking!

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Yearbook Page Ideas – Birthdays

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Yearbook page ideas birthdaysDuring your time at school, college or university you may have started a birthday book or noted all of your friend’s birthdays on a calendar – have you thought about making a permanent record of birthdays in your yearbook?

Including birthdays in your yearbook is a great way of remembering them whether you stay in touch with your friends forever or get back in touch in the future. Here are a few ideas on how to include birthdays in your yearbook:

Birthdays page

Use a dedicated yearbook page just for people’s birthdays, ask people to supply their birth date and make sure they are happy with this information being published. You could list the birthdays in a formal, alphabetical order or list birthday girls and guys under the month they were born.

Alternatively you could use horoscopes instead of the months with each horoscope’s description. For example, Scorpio – are very determined, reserved, loyal, and secretive…(source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorpio_(astrology)).

One of our 2011 yearbook customers included each month’s birth stone on their birthday pages. You could also note in which Chinese New Year they were born. For example, Year of the Ox, Year of the Tiger, etc. – you can find details of each Chinese New Year animal by clicking here.

Birthday profiles

Another idea is to add each person’s birthday onto their yearbook profile page or student comment. This would work particularly well if you are using a question and answer format for your yearbook profile pages, for example:

Name:
Date of Birth:

If you’re designing your own yearbook, decorate your birthday pages with presents, streamers, balloons, cakes, candles, badges, and anything else birthday-related you can think of!

We would love to see and hear about your yearbook page ideas, post them on our Facebook page or email yb@spc-yearbooks.co.uk.
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Help! How do I add pages in Yearbook Creator and Yearbook Designer Live?

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How to add pages into your create your own yearbook using Yearbook Creator and Yearbook Designer LiveIf you are using either of our create-your-own solutions to build your yearbook, do you need to know how to add more pages to your yearbook? Here’s a step by step guide to adding and deleting pages in Yearbook Creator and Yearbook Designer Live:

Yearbook Creator – SPC’s powerful desktop software

  • Open your project
  • If you wish to add a page between other pages you’re working on, go to Page > Insert. This will add a spread before the spread you have selected. Pages are added and deleted as spreads in Yearbook Creator, and not as single pages.
  • If you want to add more pages at the end of your yearbook, go to Page > Add and this will add a spread at the end of your project.

It’s also possible to duplicate a spread in Yearbook Creator – this is handy if you want to use exactly the same artwork and layout over multiple pages.

  • To duplicate a spread, select the spread you wish to duplicate and go to Page > Duplicate.

If you wish to delete pages in Yearbook Creator…

  • Select the spread you wish to remove and go to Page > Delete.

Yearbook Designer Live – SPC’s online collaborative yearbook app

  • Open your project in the editor
  • In the ‘Pages’ panel (to the right of the editor), click the page icon with a green ‘+’ (beneath the ‘Pages’ panel), this will add a single page to the end of your yearbook. It’s best to add two pages at a time to ensure there’s an even number of pages in your book.

To move your new pages within your yearbook…

  • Click and hold the page you wish to move until a ghost-like, enlarged version of the page appears. Drag this to where you would like to move it, and drop. To download a more detailed guide on how to rearrange pages, click here. Be careful when moving and deleting pages as these actions cannot be undone.

If you wish to delete pages at the end of your book in Yearbook Designer Live…

  • Click the page icon with a red ‘x’ (this is located beneath the ‘Pages’ panel on the right of the editor), this will delete a single page from the end of your book. It’s best to delete 2 pages at a time to ensure your yearbook has an even number of pages.

If you would like to delete a page from within your project…

  • Drag and drop it to the end of the project and delete using the delete button (as above).

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