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
Imagine
A Yearbook (1st asst)
List of changes so far
Student
Info (to be filled out and returned to me)
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
PhotoShop Basics : Browsing, Cropping, Level Adjustment
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
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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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
Older
Stuff…
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