It has almost become a yearly tradition: Adobe updates and releases a new version of InDesign or Photoshop, with the latest changes taking the form of the Creative Suite 2. As the number would indicate, this is the second time Adobe has packaged its most popular software titles, including InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, GoLive and Acrobat. Of these applications, InDesign and Photoshop are the most widely used by yearbook advisers and students. Here are the features that are most likely to be useful to you in a yearbook capacity.
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It is a cruel irony: the one section of the yearbook that gets the most use is also the one that is the most tedious to produce. But the work that goes into it will be easier to bear if you think of the index as a necessary tool for both your readers and you. If you want to produce a reader-friendly book, a complete and correct index is one of the best services you can offer.
Adobe released its first version of InDesign in 1999. Since then, hundreds of Walsworth customers have jumped in and started using this relatively young software program to create their yearbooks. As InDesign matured, so has Walsworth’s support. And our numerous plug-ins, training materials and informational pieces have helped our customers make the switch as easy as possible.
It happens to staff members in almost every school. You create a great page using either PageMaker or InDesign, and you are sure you have submitted everything Walsworth needs to print that page in your book. Then you get an email. A digital image is missing, Or there is a conflict with the color on your page. Maybe your proofs come back, and that beautiful headline package you created has defaulted to Courier because you forgot to submit a font.
Like the old saying “you can’t be too rich,” there is no such thing as being too organized. We all talk about it. But how many of us really take the steps to become organized?
Before you pick up the phone to call your Walsworth yearbook representative and schedule your first visit of the year, stop. There are a few things you can do ahead of time to help make that first visit go smoothly, and make sure your time is used well.
The thought of taking your yearbook photography into the digital age is probably tempting on several different levels. And somewhere on the list, maybe you are thinking that this is finally your chance to get rid of the shoe boxes or file folders full of negatives and unused prints that have been cluttering up the yearbook room.
With cameras, backdrops and a few hundred feet of cable, Walsworth’s paper storage warehouse was turned into a live television set Nov. 5 for an electronic field trip sponsored by the Indiana Academy at Ball State University, Muncie, Ind.
