Creating your custom cover in Pictavo™ is easy. Templates are provided and cover artwork is available to use. Just drag and drop the background of your choice, place any added text and images you’d like, save and submit! Once the Custom Cover option...
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Pictavo – Tools for the Yearbook Adviser
With Yearbook Life’s online software Yearbook advisers have may privileges. Some are as follows: USER/GROUP PERMISSIONS • Create Individual Users or Groups and assign specific access privileges. BOOK SETTINGS • View and edit Overall Book Settings, such as: • View and edit Cover Settings, such as: - Page Count -...
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The Pictavo Community – Online Yearbook Sales and Photo Uploads
Easily set up your own school’s store that allows community members to upload photos and purchase products online! UPLOAD SETTINGS • Determine if you’d like community members to be notified once their image(s) have been used. • Set the maximum number of images you want community members to upload....
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Developing a Yearbook Monthly Planning Calendar – 2nd Half of Year
JANUARY – SPRING DELIVERY • Report and photograph activities and events as they happen • Meet deadlines and check materials according to the production schedule • Double-check the progress of the index and make sure that material is accurate; polish and refine the index concept FEBRUARY – SPRING DELIVERY •...
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How to Develop a Monthly Yearbook Planning Calendar – 1st Half of School Year
The best way to plan for the year is by reviewing what needs to be done globally as an adviser and yearbook staff. On the next few pages, you will find a generalized list of activities involving both production and business aspects of the yearbook. Be aware that there are...
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More Tips On Developing a Yearbook Grading System
The concept behind this form is to make sure that everyone is keeping track of what is being photographed and when. As staffers begin to decide what is on every page of the yearbook, photos will ultimately need to be taken. This form will allow the staffer to request or...
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Ideas for Developing a Yearbook Grading System
If you have a yearbook class, it will be important to assign grades to your students based upon their performance and participation in class, as well as how well they interact with others and complete tasks on time. It is also important to review your state’s requirements for what content...
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Tips for Determining Yearbook Ad Sizes, Guidelines and Rates
The first element to understand before making any decisions related to ad sizes, guidelines and rates is that you must sell your yearbook page for at least two to three times your cost for the page. While this may sound basic, many staffs fail to follow this advice. You can...
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Tips for Developing a Yearbook Ad Program
If you wish to raise additional revenue for your yearbook, you may wish to consider offering advertisement space to businesses and recognition space to clubs and families. It is amazing the amount of revenue you can raise from one page in your yearbook. Many schools offer space to families, club...
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More Yearbook Marketing Tips
When developing a sales campaign, we recommend a goal of launching up to 3 sales campaigns for the year. Each campaign should have a pre planning stage, a sales time frame, and a closing stage. Please plan out your sales accordingly and have all the material needed. Here is a...
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