Feature: Beautiful Yearbook Profile Pages Created in No Time

OK. So, how many students are there in your school? Do you want them all in the profile pages or do you prefer to make it exclusive for the leavers? How many questions would you like to ask them? Do you just want one photo per student or would you rather have a couple of different ones?

To help you think about it, I’d like to remind you the 3 types of pages you could use to do portraits in Fusion. This will also help you to differentiate profiles pages from others types of pages.

If you don’t need to include yearbook questions, you can use photo pages. You’ll be able to display multiple students on the same page, with their photo and name. On the example below, you can see that we have built a layout with 12 students per page. We’ve created the first page and used the duplicate button (accessible when you hover over a page in the yearbook builder). Then, we’ve just changed the background colour. This way, you can get multiple pages very quickly, change the photos, the names and adapt the design to your liking, page per page.

Same idea than for the photo pages but even faster! Using group photo pages will allow you to display class photos in minutes. It’s the quickest way for you to have everyone in the book and, as you can see in the example below, it works exactly the same than above.

Here we go. Profile pages don’t really work in the same way. Contrary to the previous ones, you don’t need to use the duplicate button: by default your profile pages will be generated automatically.

You’ll just have to create a template, build a questionnaire and have everyone answer online.

Yearbook profile pages include the exact number of students, photos and answers you requested and strictly respect the design you’ve prepared upstream. They can look like this:

– Set up you fonts first and save.

– Choose a background (it will open the page editor to let you choose or design the exact background you want).

– After saving your background, generate a page preview to see how your page will look like.

If you want to ask several questions to the students, you should select a profile page layout that will suit the length of responses.

Like on any other publication, space is precious. You don’t really want to ask a question for which you already know the answer. You don’t want to ask 2 or 3 questions that are pretty similar either.

Since your students will be able to fill their profile by themselves, make sure you ask them to provide the highest quality and resolution possible. They have to be aware that bad quality photos could be blurry or pixelated when printed: what a deception would it be for them to discover their pixelated portrait on distribution day!

Yearbook profile pages are automatically duplicated by our online yearbook builder. Once your template is created, you don’t have to worry about the design: your profile pages will fill and design themselves! This is the actual benefit of the Fusion yearbook profile pages!

Encourage your students to proofread their info to make sure everything is correct and accurate. Then, check and double-check again before the yearbook goes to print. Involve teachers for this step, because they know their students, as well as their name spelling… and of course their faces (they will easily spot a wrong photo).

Make sure everyone has the same proportions in the frame. This is the kind of details that will make your yearbook look very professional!

SPECIAL TIP: Remember that, if you’re not happy with the first result, you can make changes to the layout and re-use the same data. Make your changes to the layout, font size, type or page background and simply regenerate the profile pages to implement the changes.