Download Halloween Clipart and Nature Themed Backgrounds
Posted by: In: Backgrounds, Downloads, Yearbook Samples, Yearbooks Desktop 18 Oct 2013 Comments: 0 Tags: , , , , , , , ,

One of the great new features in this year’s edition of Yearbooks is the ability to download new packages of content from this website.  Every month we will be releasing new graphics that can be quickly imported into Yearbooks to add new clip-art, backgrounds, templates and cover images.   All of these images are provided for free to registered users, and are completely optional.  You can pick and choose the packages you wish to download and import, whether it is one package or all of them.   We are also producing a tutorial video in which Dave will demonstrate how to download, import and use these images in your Yearbook.

Our first download package features new Clip-art images with a Halloween theme!   Here is a brief sample of what is included in this package.   You can download the package below.

Halloween Clip-art Package #1

Halloween Clip-art Package #1

Download “Halloween Clipart Package #1” PKG_Halloween.ybk – Downloaded 737 times – 693 KB

Our second package contains some of the classic backgrounds that have been featured in Yearbooks over the past ten years, specifically those with a Nature Theme.  Again here is a sample of the contents, you can download the packages below.

Nature Backgrounds Package #1

Nature Backgrounds Package #1

 

Download “Nature Themed Backgrounds Package #1” PKG_Nature.ybk – Downloaded 1142 times – 23 MB

 

Watch this site for additional content for your Yearbook!  Leave us a comment if you have any questions or suggestions on new graphics for Yearbooks.

 

 

See Jack Black’s Yearbook Photo – Yearbooks Desktop
Posted by: In: Celebrities, Yearbook Photos 17 Oct 2013 Comments: 0 Tags: , , , , ,

Life is especially sweet for Thomas Jacob “Jack” Black.   The son of two rocket scientists, with four elder siblings he found himself in the classic battle for attention that most youngest-born children have to face.  As a child, his first appearance in the public eye was in 1982 for a commercial for the Activision game, Pitfall (video).  It was clear from an early age that Black possessed something of a flair for acting and by the time he reached his teens, his parents urged him to switch to the Poseidon School, an exclusive privately run school that specialized in students who had trouble ‘fitting in’ with traditional educational systems.

He soon earned a place studying theater arts at UCLA, but dropped out in his second year to pursue his acting career, specifically a supporting role in the Tim Robbins film “Bob Roberts“.  His breakout role was as the wild employee in John Cusack’s record store in 2000’s High Fidelity, quickly afterwards he was landing larger and larger roles in films such as Shallow Hal, School of Rock and King Kong.

Lately, Jack Black has been headlining and touring with his band Tenacious D, who have had their own show on HBO, their own major movie release, and most recently their third major album “Rize of the Fenix” was certified Gold in 2013.

Here’s Jack Black’s yearbook photo from his days at the Poseidon School.

Jack Black Photo

Jack Black’s High School Yearbook Photo

 

Check out the rest of our Celebrity Yearbook Photos.

Video: The Crop Tool – Yearbooks Desktop
Posted by: In: Help and Tips, Tutorials, Videos 09 Oct 2013 Comments: 4 Tags: , , , , , , , ,

We published our first new video for Yearbooks last week, and the topic was the Floating Toolbar.   This is the second video from that recording session, and another recording session will be scheduled shortly.  If you have any ideas for video topics, please leave a comment and we will consider making it into a help video!

The Crop Tool is one of the most useful and versatile tools in Yearbooks.   The tool can be most easily accessed by simply double-clicking on any candid image.  The first thing you will see when the Crop Tool opens up is a full-resolution display of the image you are cropping.  Sometimes this can be a very large image (as Dave shows us in the video) so you may need to zoom out a bit (or a lot, depending on the image of course).   The “Rotate 90” button is a quick way to correct images that were imported and appear sideways – this can happen when you are importing photos from multiple sources like smart-phones or digital cameras, not all of them will save the image orientation correctly.

Simply draw a box where you want to crop the image, and click the crop button.  It’s that simple!  If you make a mistake, just return to the page, delete the photo and re-import it, and then you can try again.  You can find more information about the Crop Tool in our online help guide.

We will be adding new videos every week so be sure to subscribe to our YouTube Channel, and thanks for watching.

 

Ronald Reagan’s Yearbook Sold for $2K on Pawn Stars
Posted by: In: Celebrities, Videos, Yearbook Photos 04 Oct 2013 Comments: 0 Tags: , , , ,

There are very few Americans that are as universally respected as Ronald Reagan.  From his humble beginnings in rural Illinois where he attended Dixon High School, he showed an early interest in acting, sports and storytelling.  Reagan was the captain of the Swim Team, a member of the football team, and was elected Student Body President in 1920, a full 60 years before he would be elected as the President of the United States in 1980.

Last year, on History Channel’s popular reality show “Pawn $tars” , a customer brought in a rare Yearbook he claimed was from the former President.    As usual, co-star Corey Harrison, of Gold and Silver Pawn Shop of Las Vegas, had to call in his experts to authenticate the yearbook.   Watch what happens next!

 

This is a great example of why you should always hang on to your Yearbooks, because one day you or one of your classmates may become the President of the United States!

Have you ever had a fellow student or classmate become famous, and do you still have the Yearbook?  Leave us a comment below, and check out our other Celebrity Yearbook posts.

Video: Floating Toolbar Overview – Yearbooks Desktop
Posted by: In: Help and Tips, Tech Support, Tutorials, Uncategorized, Videos 03 Oct 2013 Comments: 0 Tags: , , , , , ,

As mentioned last week, we have completed shooting a new tutorial video on the Floating Toolbar in the new Yearbooks Desktop (download here).   We managed to record two videos during the session, and the first one was edited today.

The floating toolbar is one of the new enhancements granted to us by developing the Canvas page editor.   The toolbar appears on the right side of your screen when you right click on any object and choose “Object Properties”.  From the toolbar you have access to a context sensitive menu – when you click on a text object, the text controls are enabled; likewise when you click on a shape or candid image, the corresponding controls are activated.    We made this change to provide more screen ‘real estate’, and the result is that the draw area of the Page Editor has gained about 20% more workable space.

Here’s the video, we’ll be adding more videos very soon.  Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel to be the first to know about new videos and announcements.

 

See Ozzy Osbourne’s Yearbook Photo – Yearbooks Desktop
Posted by: In: Celebrities, Yearbook Photos 02 Oct 2013 Comments: 0 Tags: , , ,

Rock legend Ozzy Osbourne (John Michael Osbourne) has written many songs and acquired many nicknames, from ‘The Prince of Darkness’ to ‘The Godfather of Heavy Metal’.  He has achieved what very few other people in music have: every single record that Ozzy has released has gone platinum, most without a top 40 single, from his early days in Black Sabbath to his solo career.  In his 50 year career he has performed at over two thousand concerts, starred in three dozen music videos, and created a travelling rock festival (Ozzfest) which he has not personally headlined in a number of years.  In 2012 he reunited with Black Sabbath as a permanent member and has recently released a new album, 13, which was the band’s first #1 on the Billboard charts in their history.

Ozzy, the youngest of six Osbourne children, attended his high school in Birmingham, England in the 50’s and early 60’s.  He was immediately drawn to performing, taking a role in the school production of “The Pirates of Penzance”.   At the age of 15 he left school to find work as a labourer, plumber, toolmaker and even as a slaughterhouse worker.

Here’s Ozzy Osbourne’s ninth grade Yearbook photo from 1960 in Birmingam, England.

Ozzy Osbourne's High School Yearbook Photo

Ozzy Osbourne’s High School Yearbook Photo

Check out the rest of our Celebrity Yearbook Photos.