Tink is very creative and very sweet. I am doing the yearbook for my kids school this year. I was suppose to just stick pictures in a program provided by the yearbook company. And then… I discovered it was much more than that. I went nuts and have totally stressed over it all.
The principle mentioned how cool it would be to have all 800+ students on the yearbook cover. I ran with it. What an entertaining adventure I never wish to repeat. The picture got taken by an aerial photographer from the top of a building with me screaming directions because I couldn’t work the bullhorn. Entertainment one oh one. No one could hear me.
The picture that looked the best… drove me nuts. Then my sister saved the day. She is a wizard at photo shop type of stuff. She moved the kid that was sticking out on the side, fixed the background, added the school logo and MORE. Geeze, I couldn’t have done half the stuff she did. She is making our book look Fun and Fantastic. Now I can get back to organizing sales, picture taking and eventually the putting of pictures into the program the yearbook company provides. This will also be the LAST time I do any big volunteer projects for schools. NO MORE.
That is so sweet! It’s nice to have people you can count on, and it being family is even better!
Woot! Go Tink!
You should have considered doing a digital yearbook. There are programs out there, like Yearbook Alive (yearbookalive.com), that make compiling a yearbook pretty easy. All you do is name the project and choose a template, upload the photos and videos, then burn it all to a cd or dvd.
My school has done it for a few years now and all the kids love it. They’re more into technology than books anyways and besides it’s much cheaper for us to produce than a traditional printed yearbook.
In any event, good luck! I know what an adventure it can be to produce a good yearbook!