Yearbook Course Index – AWE 3O1 – Mr. Martin   (2008)

Welcome to the Yearbook crew!  On this website you can learn and review a lot of the techniques and skills necessary to produce a great yearbook.

james.martin@yrdsb.edu.on.ca   Yes, that’s my work email, in case you need to send me an assignment or have a question.  Don’t email big graphics files – use a memory stick!

 

Summary of Contribution to be sent or given to me by Tuesday Jan. 20

 

Yearbook Logins

 

What to Do   Journal

 

Imagine A Yearbook (1st asst)      List of changes so far

 

Student Info (to be filled out and returned to me)

 

Jobs, Leadership Positions

How Do You Take Great Photos for the Yearbook (and Where Do You Store Them)?

Where Do Photos (and Other Files) Go? Learn How and Where to Download Photos     Review

 

Photojournalism Tips     Review  Due Sept. 29

 

Photojournalism Assignment  due Oct. 1                    Review test Oct. 3 – photography, file procedures, Basic PhotoShop, YearTech Online Procedures

Photojournalism Assignment  #2  due Oct. 30                   

Digital Photography and Editing - PhotoShop Skills Everyone Should Have

PhotoShop Basics : Browsing, Cropping, Level Adjustment

 

Adjusting Lighting Levels

 

Selecting Areas (for copying, adjusting etc.)       Selection Exercise

 

Merging Images (e.g adding a missing player to a team photo)   Merge Asst  Due Oct. 16

 

Creating Pages

Key Design Concepts  Asst Due Oct. 28

Planning : Page Plans for all your pages due Thurs. Nov. 6

Options:  PhotoShop and/or YearTech Online

Creating a Page in PhotoShop                                 PhotoShop Page Asst

Creating a Page in YearTech Online

 

 

Terminology & Techniques you should know

 

 

 

 

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Old Stuff – IGNORE THIS!   (pre 2006 – InDesign rather than Jostens YearTech Online):

Overview – the basics of starting a page in InDesign, and adding photos and text to it.  Also learn where your photos and other files should be stored.

Setting Up YearTech folders for InDesign  – You’ve got to do this before you can save Yearbook pages.

 

 

Photo Procedures – How and Where to download digital pics from cameras.  (THIS WILL BE UPDATED!  For now, refer to the “Overview” link)

 

 

Old:

Elementary PhotoPaint - Browsing, Viewing, Cropping, Adjusting Brightness.  Everyone should know how to do these basics, not just photographers and editors.

 

Making a Mask for Copying Parts of a Photo to a Collage

 

Transparency Brush & Collages: Using the Transparency Brush to Trim and Soften the Edges of Copied Objects in PhotoPaint

 

Using Pictures with Transparent Backgrounds in InDesign:  How to not see the background rectangle of a picture

 

Digital Image Processing Asst

 

InDesign

Backgrounds

Page Surfer Layouts

 

Older Stuff…

Spread Description Form

 

Backgrounds for Collages & Other Photos on a Yearbook Page

 

New Stuff to Learn in InDesign

 

Sections/Spreads/Features  - your chance to change the overall contents of the yearbook.  Note that you can also open a Word version of this file.  It’s in I:/Yrbk/Sections and Spreads.

 

InDesign Techniques from Jostens “Making It Click” Guide

 

Slideshow Experiment