Sometimes when people ask her about her job, Kim Green, yearbook adviser at Columbus North High School, tells them she is the official copy maker for her media students. But Green makes more than copies, as evidenced by her recent honor as 2011 JEA Yearbook Adviser of the Year.
Talk to yearbook advisers and there seems to be little debate – February and March can be really stressful months for the staff. So the question becomes: what can the yearbook staff do to keep from pulling their hair out?
The fundamentals of journalism involve telling the story of communities, and no one does this better than the school yearbook.
QR Codes are a great way to increase information in your yearbook. Get started on using them now with these simple instructions.
In their quest to keep their yearbook relevant, this award-winning, veteran adviser’s staff has abandoned strongly held theme development principles to make an emotional connection with their readers.
Sometimes great things happen when you step aside and let your staff take off and run with something that initially sounds silly.
Like Photoshop, InDesign has many Layer blending modes to quickly create a special effect.
Changing a layer from the Normal blending mode setting to a different blending mode can have a dramatic effect on the appearance of an image. You have seen this effect in InDesign on the previous page, now play with them in Photoshop.
Since only juniors and seniors can enroll in yearbook at my school, each year I have to train a new group of five talented individuals to ride this new bike around school, so to speak. So what kind of training wheels do I need to provide for these newbie leaders?
From movies to children’s toys, the use of 3-D images is everywhere. In just a few simple steps in Photoshop, you can create a 3-D image that will grab the attention of your viewer beyond your original image.
