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Posted by: admin In: Help and Tips, Videos, Yearbooks Desktop 22 Oct 2014 Comments: 0 Tags: 2015, candid, candids, desktop, help, photography, support, template, templates, year book, yearbook, yearbook photos, yearbooks, yearbooks desktop, youtube

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.

 

Video: The Crop Tool – Yearbooks Desktop

Posted by: admin In: Help and Tips, Tutorials, Videos 09 Oct 2013 Comments: 4 Tags: candid, crop, crop tool, help, text, toolbar, tutorial, video, youtube

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.

 

Video: Floating Toolbar Overview – Yearbooks Desktop

Posted by: admin In: Help and Tips, Tech Support, Tutorials, Uncategorized, Videos 03 Oct 2013 Comments: 0 Tags: candid, floating toolbar, text, toolbar, tutorial, video, youtube

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.

 

Yearbooks Desktop Help Videos – New Content Coming Soon

Posted by: admin In: Help and Tips, Tech Support, Tutorials, Videos 24 Sep 2013 Comments: 0 Tags: help, import, playlist, PSPA, tutorial, video, year book, yearbook, youtube

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.

 

Contact the Yearbooks Desktop Support Teams

Posted by: admin In: Sales, Tech Support, Yearbooks Desktop 17 Sep 2013 Comments: 0 Tags: facebook, phone, sales, support, tech support, ticket, twitter, youtube

Yearbooks Desktop is developed and supported by Northwestern Support Professionals Inc., of Nanaimo, BC, Canada.   We are a small independent software publishing studio and are 100% proudly Canadian owned and operated.   Please visit our corporate website at NWSP.ca.

Sales & Product Inquiries and to Request a Demo
Our sales team is available at your convenience to provide you and your team with a 30-minute online demo.  Click here to send us a meeting request, the online form is on the right side of the Download page.

You may also send an email to support@yearbooksdesktop.com to reach our sales department, or call us directly at 1-877-661-9990.

Technical Support and Software Development Inquiries
Click here to send us a support ticket request.   You may also send an email to support@yearbooksdesktop.com, or call us directly at 1-877-661-9990.

Technical Support is available between the hours of 8:00 AM PST and 3:30 PM PST, Monday to Friday (excluding Canadian holidays).

Yearbooks Product Manual and Tutorials
Our documentation for Tallys can be found online at support.yearbooksdesktop.com and is updated frequently throughout the year.

Online Training Videos
We have gone to great lengths to create many online training videos to help you through common problems and to demonstrate some of the more powerful features.  Check out our YouTube channel by clicking here.

Knowledge Base and Support Forums
Solutions to many common problems can be quickly found in our knowledge base and forums.  Please visit support.yearbooksdesktop.com and register a free account.

Please contact us if you have any questions.

Please contact us if you have any questions.

Contact us by Email or Phone
You may send an email to support@yearbooksdesktop.com to reach our sales department, or call us directly at 1-877-661-9990.

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Contact us by Mail or in Person
We are located at 549 Haliburton Street, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada, V9R 4W4.

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