Taking Amazing Yearbook Photos With Your Smartphone

Photos are the focal point of a yearbook, and informal photos most of all. Fun, spur-of-the-moment informal photos are the best way to capture those memories and moments that you’ll want to keep forever. 

More and more, yearbooks rely less on professional photographers and more on smartphone photos taken by students, staff and parents. So how do you get your smartphone photos to look amazing enough to earn a top spot in your yearbook? 

Yearbook Inspiration – Best of 2021

Looking for some real-life yearbook inspiration? We’ve had an amazing year at SPC Yearbooks, and we’d love to share some of the year’s best leavers’ yearbooks with you.

These are some fantastic examples of what you can achieve with our Yearbook Hub software. With hundreds of ready-made covers, page backgrounds and clip art images, there’s no limit to what you can create!

10 Amazing Yearbook Layout Examples

Designing yearbook page layouts is trickier than it looks. Combining balance, symmetry and creativity to create eye-catching yearbook pages can be a real challenge.

It can be helpful to have examples to use as a starting point when setting out your yearbook pages. And it’s good to use lots of layout styles in your yearbook to keep readers engaged. With that in mind, here are ten top-notch yearbook layout examples to help you get started!

Yearbook Page Backgrounds – Get Inspired!

Nothing brings your yearbook pages to life like amazing page backgrounds. Page backgrounds will set the tone of your yearbook. Solid colours can give your yearbook a clean or modern feel. Page backgrounds with patterns or textures (like wood or aged parchment, for example) can make your yearbook feel more rustic, homely or ‘retro’. 

How To Design Stunning Yearbook Page Layouts

Page layouts are an essential part of a great yearbook. Putting content on a page seems simple, doesn’t it? But it can be tricky to get your pages looking both clear and creative. 

Choosing Yearbook Fonts and How to Avoid Font Abuse

Simply put, fonts affect the appearance and style of writing.

You should think carefully about your font choices, as it can affect how easy your yearbook is to read, and even the mood of your yearbook.

How to Choose Striking Colour Themes

Are you stuck in a colourful rut? Don’t know your chartreuse from your cerulean? Just what is puce, anyway? (Hint: these are all colours.)

Don’t despair. Choosing colours is easy if you follow a few simple rules – and you can even apply these to your everyday wardrobe choices.

Yearbook Ideas: Caption your yearbook photos

How often do you post to Instagram without a caption? In my case almost never. Captions are the third most read part of a publication, after the heading and sub-heading, so they definitely don’t go unnoticed. Yearbook photos tell a visual story and captions are great at extending that story.

Yearbook Design Idea: Playing with Patterns

Thinking of sticking with plain block colour background in your yearbook? Try taking your leavers’ book design one step further by using patterned backgrounds. Patterns don’t have to be bold and ‘in yer face’ – subtle stripes and profound polkadots are more our bag. We’ve put together a few examples showing you how to use patterned backgrounds in our online editor, Yearbook Hub.

Yearbook Page Idea: We Love Yearbook Colouring

If you’ve walked into your local newsagents in the past twelve months, you’re bound to have seen a growing collection of colouring books for grown-ups. Art therapy has rapidly increased in popularity, so much so, we think a colouring page would make a fantastic addition to your yearbook!