Category: Creative
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#Makeitmonday: Articles
By the time you get to the top year group, you’ve probably been on lots of amazing school trips, won competitions and held more than a few events! Besides adding collages, you can document these moments by making beautifully designed article pages to tell your stories and relive those memories…
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#Makeitmonday: Wordles
Word collages are always a nice addition to a yearbook and make lovely cover designs, intro pages and dividers. Previously we have had to direct people away to external sites to create these and often the image output from these sites has less than ideal print quality. To make you…
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Incorporating Fill Shapes
Every year, we’re suprised with the designs our editors come up with and this year is set to be just the same thanks to the new page designer and the freedom it gives to create awesome pages. New for this year is the ability to add fill shapes to your…
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Awards page creator now online!
By now, you probably have your awards voting underway and you might be thinking about how you want to design your pages. On Monday, we launched a shiny new awards page designer for you to play with and I’m excited to tell you more about how it works and how…
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#Makeitmonday: Contents Pages
The first page is important to setting the tone of your yearbook and often a contents page is a great way to introduce a certain style or design idea. You want a book to grab your attention from the onset and often a contents page can be a bit of…
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Page types and how to make them!
Wondering how to make your yearbook a little more interesting? If you’re ready to get stuck in, why not browse some example pages to see how you can use the page designer to create beautiful and stylish designs. From simple tips to meticulous arrangements, our Page types Pinterest board is…
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Custom Colour Palettes
Firstly let me just take a moment to say Happy New Year everybody! Here’s to a wonderful yearbook filled 2015 😀 To kickstart the busy season, we’re launching more new features to help you create beautiful designs unique to your school. Just before Christmas, we launched over 600 new fonts…
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Fantastic Fonts
Customising your yearbook is central to making your book unique and personal to your school or group. To help you get the most out of your designs, we now support over 600 different fonts ! That’s a huge increase from the 31 fonts we supported last year 😀 Horray! To…
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Tutorial video playlist
With the addition of our new page designer, and with lots of features coming all the time, we’ve added some how-to tutorials to help you get started. A playlist of short, easy-to-follow tutorials is now visible within your yearbook on the “Design & Manage” tab, and you can also view…
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An eye for design: Proofing visual elements of your yearbooks
When most people think of proof-reading they place the emphasis on the reading part but it’s just as important to cast an eye over the design of your yearbooks! When proofing your books, look out for the 4 C’s;Â copyright; content; cropping and colour schemes: Copyright– A term that’s been mentioned…
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