Templates are a very effective tool that you can use to make your book look professionally designed. We spent part of our development season working on templates, so now they look more professional, and are easier to use than ever. Coupled with our cropping tool, you can now crop each image to fit perfectly into your template on its way in. Alternately, use the auto flow template wizard to flow templates to multiple pages, and automatically populate them with your favorite candid images.
We are pleased to announce that our first update to Books Desktop has been published today, May 1st, 2014. This is for both Mac OS and Windows – if you are looking for the Mac OS update click here.
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Download “Books Update for Windows” Update_Books_1401_Windows.zip – Downloaded 1108 times – 19 MB
Installation Instructions:Please contact us if you have any questions or concerns with this update.
Release Notes, Books Desktop v14.01:
-Corrected ‘High Res Watermarked’ PDF error.
We are pleased to announce that our first update to Yearbooks Desktop has been published today, September 24, 2013. This is for both Mac OS and Windows – if you are looking for the Windows OS update click here.
Click the button below to begin your download.
Installation Instructions:Please contact us if you have any questions or concerns with this update.
Release Notes, Yearbooks Desktop v14.02:
-Corrected a minor registration issue, should not affect any existing licences.
-Minor cosmetic corrections to Cover Sheet form.
We are pleased to announce that our first update to Yearbooks Desktop has been published today, September 24, 2013. The update is for both Mac OS and Windows – if you are looking for the Windows OS update click here.
Click the button below to begin your download.
Installation Instructions:If you were not prompted to overwrite a file in Step 4, you may have moved the file to the wrong folder. If you are having difficulties, please feel free to contact us for further assistance.
Release Notes, Yearbooks Desktop v14.02:
-Corrected a minor registration issue, should not affect any existing licences.
-Minor cosmetic corrections to Cover Sheet form.
If you are brand new to our software and are looking for some instruction on how to get started, or an overview of the major features of the program, you should definitely visit our YouTube channel. We’ve created tutorial videos of how to Import Students from your PSPA File, Generate PDF files, Auto-Flow your Panels, and over a dozen more helpful videos for Yearbooks Desktop.
Each year we review our video archives to share new best practices, highlight new features and promote our software around the net. This year we have decided to create some new videos, and the production will start immediately! Dave and Simon are setting up the recording studio space and will be adding new videos to our channel very soon. We don’t have a voice actor this year, so it’s likely we’ll hear one of their voices on the audio track. This year we are recording the videos with CamStudio and editing them with Sony Vegas Pro and Photoshop (our previous videos were mostly created with CamTasia).
Do you have any suggestions or topics you’d like discussed or demonstrated in a video ? Leave us a comment below. Here is our current Yearbooks Desktop YouTube playlist, which you can also get to by clicking the ‘Videos’ button on the Registration Screen.
Here’s some commentary from vlogger Richard Fowler, of The Richard Fowler Show, on a school in Moorhead, MN that has discovered a quite unfortunate spelling mistake on the front cover of their 2013 Yearbook. They have spelled the school name wrong. The cost to reprint the book is over $19,000 dollars, which means that the 2013 edition of the Yearbook will remain the way it is, misspellings and all.
The front cover of Moorhead HS’s 2013 Yearbook.
This is a perfect example of why the proofreading stage must not be rushed, and your yearbook design project should always be proofread by at least one other person. Often times you can make a simple mistake, like this school, and not notice the error until it is too late. A printing error, especially on the cover, can run into the thousands of dollars to correct and as such, most schools would choose to not reprint the book. We have written a large number of articles for our Yearbooks Desktop help guide to help you through the proofing stage, which you can browse here. Unfortunately, no software or article is going to be able to detect when you spell a name incorrectly, so our best practice is once again to take as much time as you can in the proofing stage.
As Mr. Fowler says, “Always proofread. When you’re done proofreading, PROOFREAD AGAIN!”
The new edition of Yearbooks Desktop (v14.00 – Download Here!) has an all-new media library pre-loaded into the software. We have gone to great lengths to find fresh and exciting new images for you to add to your Yearbook designs, including over 150 new backgrounds and clip-art images. Each month we will be adding brand new images to our collection, available through our brand new 2013 website.
If you prefer to use some of our classic backgrounds and clip-art, don’t worry – our old media library will be available online shortly, along with a tutorial video on how to download and import them into Yearbooks Desktop with just a few clicks.
Here is a preview of the bright and beautiful new background images that we have collected over the summer. To add these images to your Yearbook pages, follow these instructions provided in our user guide on our support portal.
Which ones are your favorites? Feel free to leave a comment below.
There are lots of great places to get Valentines Day clipart on the web, and you can import these directly into Yearbooks Desktop for use in your school’s yearbook.
All the valentine clip art images are free but make sure you check out the copyright information for each image. Some images are limited to personal use only.
© Valentine-Clipart.com
There are over 100 free valentine clip art images here.
Just scroll through and click on the image you’d like to download to see more details.
© Patische Family Portal
There are some great free valentine clip art images at this website!
Be sure to check out the valentine love stamp clip art as well.
© Vintage Holiday Crafts
You’ll love the free vintage valentine clip art over here.
These are truly some unique images that might be just what you’re looking for.
© Kids’ Turn Central
Use the links at the bottom of the page to view the valentine teddy bears, hippos, devils, hearts, candy hearts, or valentine moose.
I just love some of the unique valentine clip art they have here!
© Ace Clipart
Free valentine clip art of bears, hearts, flowers, and more await you at Ace Clipart
These free valentine clip art images will bring some new life to whatever project you are working on this year.
© Lady Anne
There are lots of heart clip art over here by Lady Anne.
Right-click on top of one of the images you like to save it to your computer.
© School Clip Art
There are only a few valentine clip art images here but they are so cute I had to include them on the list.
Follow the directions at the top of the page to save the valentine clip art to your computer.
