Elements of Yearbooks and NOTES:)

Elements of a Yearbook:

different size and style fonts
a color scheme
a theme
pictures
words
numbers(statistics)
captions
title
Back and Front cover




Yearbook Notes:

Cover- Year, Name of School, A couple picture, title of yearbook, volume number, theme(layers/sameness)

Inside Cover(Front Endsheet)- Table of contents, some teaser pictures, "chapter" names, page numbers

Back Endsheets- Blank, thick paper

Title Page- School name, Year, contact, address, population of students, picture of school, website, mascot

Spread (two pages that are connected to each other that work together)- a picture that goes across both pages, a quote that goes with the theme, caption and quote from the person in the picture


Divider Page:the first section title, a picture that goes across both pages, caption and quote from the person in the picture

Divider pages: Foreground, Depth, Foundation, Flavor, Stacked, Paint, Zone, Impression, Unravel, Embellish, Reveal, Background

Last Page- Colophon(How it was made, who did it, who published it, What kind of computers, cameras) All of the staff, name of school, picture of materials

20 pages between the last page and the last Senior Ad.
there is one last divider page, and index with cut out people and quotes
52 senior Ads
Majorly white schools, It costs about $500 for a senior at westlake, ($200,000 worth of senior ads)
Around $200,000 for all of their yearbooks

Photoshop Notes (Levels)

****File > Save as> rename original file! (New name)****

Level the photo:
Image > Adjustments > Levels
Click the “channel” drop down menu and click on Blue.

Blue: Move the white and black markers until they are at the start of a mountain

Click Green.

Green: Again, move the white and black markers until they are at the start of a mountain.

Click Red.

Red: move the black and white markers until they are at the start of the closest mountain.

Click RGB.

RGB: Don’t touch the white or black markers, use the Mexican marker to change the contrast, lighten (left) or darken (right).
Make it a shade lighter than you think it should be.