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Great Design & Why It Works!

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There is more to great design than just looking nice – it must also be functional and easy to navigate. Finding the balance between creativity and function isn’t always easy,…

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How to: Master Photography for School Concerts & Theatre

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Taking great school production or concert photography requires some special skills. As the photographer, you only have control over the equipment and your technique – the lighting and scene are…

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How to Perfect Your Yearbook Sports Photography

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Photos of sports games and athletic events are commonplace in a yearbook. They help to tell a story and bring colour to pages, and when done well, add visual movement…

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10 Design Rules for the Perfect Yearbook

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With so many moving parts involved in designing and producing a yearbook, it is very easy to get stuck with overcomplicated design, competing styles, and mistakes when it comes time…

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The Top Ten Internet Tools You’ve Never Heard Of

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The internet is full of useful tools that can help simplify almost any task. This article will introduce you to some handy websites that you may not have heard of…

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Mix it Up! How to Create Engaging Yearbook Content

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The best school yearbooks are a captivating blend of photography, graphics and text. They project the school’s vibrancy, culture and achievements in a single attractive publication. A key technique for…

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Tips on Choosing Yearbook Content

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Once your school decides to produce a yearbook, the next step is deciding what content to include. For most schools, it’s not a case of what to put in, but…

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Time Saving Tips for Yearbook Planning

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Creating a yearbook is a pretty big undertaking. A 96-page yearbook can have 400 to 600 photos and over 30,000 words! So, what can you do to make the project…

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Basic Design Principles for Yearbooks

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Have you heard of the glitch effect? It’s a modern design trend that makes photographs looked like they’ve glitched; perhaps a distortion or a cluster of visible pixels. Then there’s…

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Photo Editing for Your School Yearbook

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The iPhone made photography universal, instant and spontaneous – glossy magazines like Elle now have whole cover photo shoots done on a mobile phone – but the one thing that…