Adobe Photoshop software is a great tool for working with yearbook photographs and digital images. Like most software, it performs many functions that either cannot all be learned or do not apply to yearbook. Tutorials are great for learning more; there are some at Adobe.com, and more will be appearing in Idea File and on our website, walsworthyearbooks.com. So be prepared to hone your Photoshop skills.
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This effect can be done with many types of elements. The staff of the 2006 Epic of Lee’s Summit West High School in Lee’s Summit, Mo., used it to help illustrate their theme, “Not So Obvious.” See more about this yearbook in the Caught Our Eye feature in this issue.
Using Photoshop, you can design new and exciting backgrounds that will be unique to your yearbook because your designers created them.
As part of the theme graphics for the 2007 Legend yearbook at Boone High School in Orlando, Fla., editor-in-chief Sarah Ballard created what she called a “mess.” These brush strokes are actually easily created in Adobe Illustrator, and go with the freestyle look of the Legend theme, “Established.”
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.
n this new feature, we will take an item from a yearbook highlighted in Caught Our Eye and explain how to create it. It could be an image, a graphic or an interesting treatment, whatever we find that we think you will want to know about.
Step-by-step instructions on how to make a retro starburst in InDesign.
The collages of yearbooks past were created with photos, scissors and rubber cement and have, like the pun, acquired a low reputation.
