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Keeping up with the times – QR Codes in Yearbooks!

Posted by: admin In: Help and Tips 02 Nov 2012 Comments: 0 Tags: 2013, candids, desktop, import, page editor, photography, QR, QR Code, video, year book, yearbook

Our team was inspired this morning, after reading a story about a Texas high school bringing their yearbooks a leap forward using modern technology.

The changes sparked by new Apple mobile devices on campuses can already be seen in a long-cherished print product, the McAllen High School Yearbook. The first page of the 2012 edition sports a QR code — a kind of barcode that can be scanned with a cellphone, often to pick up website URLs.

Each QR code in the yearbook takes readers to a video of a different club or sports team, all shot with iPads distributed last year.

Check out the full story here!

So, interested in using this innovative idea for your own yearbook?  We thought so, so we put together a short tech note outlining the whole process, from shooting the video to adding the QR code to your yearbook.

Happy Halloween!! Got your Halloween clipart?

Posted by: admin In: Help and Tips 31 Oct 2012 Comments: 0 Tags: 2013, clipart, desktop, fall, Halloween, harvest, import, page editor, photography, year book, yearbook

We want to wish all of you a great Halloween, and send a quick reminder to be extra careful when driving tonight!  The kids tonight are going to be focused on candy, and not road safety.  We all know how unpredictable they can become when they have sugar on their minds, so watch out!

Looking to spruce up your yearbook pages with some Halloween clipart?  Yearbooks Desktop allows you to import any clipart you find on the web.  Just download it, import it to your images section, and away you go!   Having trouble finding clipart?  Here are some suggestions:

Openclipart.org has a great selection of clipart.  Here is a sampling of their Halloween clipart selection!

CLKER.com – A clipart repository where all the images have been released by their author into the public domain. Similar to openclipart.org, CLKER offers a few extra choices to round things out. (Halloween clipart on CLKER)

Clipart.com claims to be the largest collection of royalty-free clipart offered by subscription on the Web.  They have a Halloween clipart section as well!

Have you found another great source for Halloween clipart?  We invite you to share it in the comments!

Start with Importing Students

Posted by: admin In: Help and Tips 09 Oct 2012 Comments: 0 Tags: 2013, desktop, help, import, photography, PSPA, student, students, support, year book, yearbook

One of the first steps we face when creating a digital Yearbook is to import the student information into the program.  Once the data is loaded in, creating and organizing your pages is fairly easy, so we’ve posted some tips to assist you with your import.

Usually, photographers will provide you with a PSPA Photo CD, which is a CD that contains all of your student’;s pictures, and an index file that has been set up based on the industry standard.  This is a very common format in the industry, so don’t be afraid to ask your photgrapher for PSPA output.

Once you have your PSPA CD, importing it into Yearbooks Desktop is fairly straight forward, as is outlined in these step by step instructions on our support site.  Once your data has been imported, the program makes it very easy to correct spelling errors, adjust classes, and add or remove individual students.

But what happens if your photographer can not provide you with a PSPA CD?  Don’t worry, Yearbooks Desktop can import non-industry standard CD’s as well.  Just follow this handy guide from our support site, and you’ll have your non-PSPA data loaded in no time.

Remember, our team has been importing data into Yearbooks Desktop for years, so if you run in to a snag anywhere along the way, contact our friendly support team.

October is Fall Harvest Month

Posted by: admin In: Help and Tips 01 Oct 2012 Comments: 0 Tags: 2013, candids, desktop, fall, harvest, photography, support, year book, yearbook

Autumn was also known as the harvest season in the earlier days. It is so because this season provides the ideal conditions for harvesting crops, fruits and vegetables. Wheat ripens during this season. In fact in most of North America, the famous harvest celebrations takes place during autumn.  Surprisingly, this overabundance of beauty can lead to unique challenges when it comes to snapping photos.  Here is an article that discusses some of these challenges, and suggests methods to overcome them.  Have a read through, to ensure that your photos look their best.

New help articles have been added to our support site!

Posted by: admin In: Help and Tips 27 Sep 2012 Comments: 0 Tags: 2013, desktop, help, private label, support, year book, yearbook

Instructions on how to move your pages around, as well as tips for working with two page spreads have been added to our support site!  The friendly support team at Northwestern Support Professionals is standing by to assist you with any questionDrag and Drop to move pagess you have about our software, and help you overcome and problems you encounter.  That’s why we invest so much time creating support forums, help documents, and tutorial videos to help you along your way.

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