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.
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.
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.
September is coming to and end, and we are reaching the end of our launch. Yearbooks Desktop is more popular than ever this season, as people are excited about inexpensive alternatives for their yearbook solution.
We’ve been strengthening our support system daily, by adding tutorial videos, and help articles on our support page. Watch for new content every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday!
Are you following us on Twitter yet? Did you know that you can launch support tickets from there, as well as facebook? Whichever channel is most convenient for you, we’ll be there!
Do you recognize the header and footer used on this blog? If not, you should learn about banners! Learn about them in the help manual, or just try them out in the software!
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 question
s 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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