User Manual
Indexing and Tagging
Building an Index Think of your index section as a “snapshot” of who is in the book and where. Anytime something changes, like a person is added or a person is tagged in a photo, then the “snapshot” has to be “retaken” or “rebuilt”. 1. Import ...
Page Manager Guide
What is Page Manager? Page Manager gives you a bird's eye view of all the pages in your yearbook. In addition, Page Manager allows you to move sections, add pages, delete pages, and move pages. It also warns you what will happen to subsequent pages ...
How to Crop and Resize Photos
Crop, Resize, and Rotate Once a photo has been added to a page, you can begin to make adjustments to that photo including cropping and resizing. Below is a selected photo on a page. The blue squares are called “handles”. Each handle has a function: ...
Portrait Layouts
How to Apply a Portrait Layout 1. Open the portrait section you want to design. 2. Click on the page you want to apply the layout to 3. From the left sidebar, find and click the “Layouts” tab. 4. Use the drop down menu at the top of the “Layouts” ...
Manage Portraits and People
1) From your project’s dashboard, find the “People” module located at the bottom right. 2) Click “Manage”. Here you’ll find a list of all the “people” or “portraits” in your project. To add people to this list see Add Portraits and Import PSPA. ...
Add Portraits and Import PSPA
1. From your project’s dashboard, find and click the “People” link from the left menu. 2. To import from a PSPA CD, click “Use PSPA” from the center of the screen or click "Import PSPA" from the "Add/Import" menu at the top right. 3. Next, you’ll be ...
Adding a Portrait Section
Creating a New Portrait Section 1. From your project’s dashboard, find the “Sections” module located on the left side 2. Click “New Section”. 3. Click the “Portrait” section type 4. Click “Next”. 5. If you have not imported or added any ...
Portraits Guide
Here is a list of helpful articles to guide you through the portrait process: How to add a portrait section How to add portraits and import a PSPA file How to manage portraits and people How to design and edit the layout of a portrait section How to ...
Transferring Account Ownership
There are several reasons to transfer project and store ownership to another account. We understand the role of an adviser can move from one person to the next year after year. Creator Studio helps to make transferring projects as easy as possible. ...
How to move a teacher's portrait to the top of your portrait page
As you may have noticed, the portraits added in a portrait section are sorted alphabetically. This can be a bit confusing when you see a teacher's portrait image in the middle of the page, but there is a very quick solution for moving this image so ...
How to edit a Freeform Section/Page
To begin editing a section, click on the name of the freeform section you’d like to edit If you are creating a yearbook in ladder format, you will need to click "Manage Ladder" to see a list of all your pages. Now you can click on the section you ...
How to add Web Content (QR codes)
This feature is useful if you would like to link a particular event in the yearbook to relevant web content. For instance, you can include a QR code on the Drama Club page which links to a YouTube video of the school’s Drama Club performance. Anyone ...
Art
Art is embellishments you can add to decorate a page. To access the library of art, click on the "ART" tab on the left hand toolbar. To add art to your page, simply drag and drop. Just like backgrounds, you can either search for art by keyword or ...
How to add background images and art to the "Artwork Added by Team" collection
Artwork Added by Team allows you to import your own collection of art or background images. Artwork Added by Team can be found under the "Photos" section of the left panels navigation menu To import your own background images, click on “Backgrounds” ...
How to upload photos
To upload photos, click on the "Photos" panel found on the left. For section-based books: Click the section you want to upload images into and click the "Add Photos" button. For ladder-based books: Add a new folder or select an existing one and ...
Section Manager
The section manager allows you to see all of the sections you’ve created for your yearbook. You can create new sections, edit pages, rename a section, mark as ready for review, lock/unlock and delete a section from this area. Clicking on a section ...
How to Assign, Edit and Delete Team Members
How to Add New Team Members The yearbook adviser and senior editor(s) are able to add members to their team. This allows multiple people to have access to work on the yearbook. 1. To add a team member, click the "New Team Member" button found in ...
Managing Images
When you first enter the "Photos" work space, you will need to click on a folder to start managing it's images. In this example, we’ll open the section titled “test” by clicking on it. Here is an explanation of each element in this work space: ...
Spine Text
Yearbook advisers may choose to add text to a yearbook’s spine. Examples of common spine text include the title of the yearbook, a slogan, or the school name. To add spine text, open your cover and click the "Spine Text" tab in the left column to ...
Creating a Freeform Section
To begin, click on the "New Section" link at the top of the Sections area of your project's dashboard. A window will appear, where you can select either freeform, portrait, or ad. Select freeform and click on "Next". Enter the section name and ...
Photo Tools
Overview The Photo Tools panel offers common image editing capabilities such as brightness, contrast, saturation, filters, and opacity controls. You can also crop and reposition a photo within the image well, add stroke, shadows, shapes and corners. ...
Free Form Layouts
Add a layout 1. Access the page layouts by clicking on the tab on the left 2. Browse the layouts by category and filter based on number of photos per page 3. Drag the layout you want to use onto your page. If you drag a "spread" layout on to a single ...
Backgrounds
Click here for a quick video on how to find Backgrounds. Adding a Background 1. Click on the Backgrounds tab to access the Backgrounds menu 2. You can select one of the suggested backgrounds or choose a solid background color. To use a suggested ...
The Media Tray
The Media Tray is the horizontal tray located below the page(s) being worked on. It displays either imported photos or the pages of the section you are working on. To toggle between photos and pages, simply click on the Photos/Pages tabs located in ...
How to add, remove, or edit a caption
Adding a Caption Box Click on the "Elements" tab located in the left navigation bar. Look for the "Text" icon and drag and drop to the desired location on your page. Click inside the caption box to add or edit text. Editing a Caption Box The caption ...
Connection Troubleshooting
The ability to use our Creator Studio software successfully relies on unconditional access to multiple different URLs through an internet connection. If a connection cannot be established to one or more of these URLs, the following may happen:
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Shipping
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Formatting your PSPA CD
What is a PSPA CD? The school picture industry offers a variety of products and services to students and schools. These are often used in conjunction with yearbooks and other products. Since individual students and schools employ different ...
Creating a PSPA Portrait CD
It is highly recommended that schools select a photographer who is familiar with and uses the PSPA format for your portraits. Doing so should provide you access to a formatted portrait CD (also called a PSPA disc) that will allow you to easily flow ...
Importing non JPG images from a PSPA CD
The PSPA importer is only compatible with .JPEG image files, and will not work with any other image format such as .TIFF. If you need to import a PSPA CD that contains images in any file format except .JPEG, it would be necessary to convert them ...
Request photos from outside contributors
There are several ways to crowd source photos for your yearbook project. 1. The easiest option is to open a storefront. Doing so not only allows you to sell your book online, but it also gives you the ability to accept photo contributions. The ...
Designing your Yearbook Cover
1. Be aware of the wrap zone and crop zone . If you will be designing your own cover and importing it into our software, make sure you stretch the image so it extends beyond the dotted line (examples shown below). If any important content is lost in ...
Alt Symbols
Not sure how to make a smart quote, em dash or an umlaut? Most fonts have sets of symbols that can be made with specific key strokes. Note: Not all fonts contain special characters. The most common fonts (i.e. Arial, Times, etc.) are more likely to ...