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Awards
- 2006 NSPA Pacemaker Awards
- 2006 Principal's Leadership Award Winners
- 2006-2007 Canadian Yearbook Review Winners-Fall
- 2006-2007 Canadian Yearbook Review Winners-Spring
- 2007 ACP Yearbook Pacemaker Winners
- 2007 CSPA Collegiate Gold Circle Awards
- 2007 CSPA Crown Winners
- 2007 CSPA High School Gold Circle Awards
- 2007 JEA/NSPA Fall Best of Show Winners
- 2007 JEA/NSPA Spring Best of Show Winners
- 2007 NSPA/ACP Yearbook Pacemaker Award Winners and Finalists
- 2007-2008 Canadian Yearbook Review Winners-Fall
- 2007-2008 Canadian Yearbook Review Winners-Spring
- 2007-2008 Principal's Leadership Award winners
- 2008 ACP Best of Show
- 2008 ACP Yearbook Pacemaker Award Winners and Finalists
- 2008 CSPA Collegiate Gold Circle Awards Announced
- 2008 CSPA Crown Finalists
- 2008 CSPA Crown Winners
- 2008 CSPA High School Gold Circle Awards Announced
- 2008 JEA Adviser of the Year Competition
- 2008 JEA/NSPA Fall Best of Show Winners
- 2008 JEA/NSPA Spring Best of Show Winners
- 2008 NASSP Principal's Leadership Award Winners
- 2008 NSPA Best of Show Winners
- 2008 NSPA Yearbook Pacemaker Award Winners
- 2008 NSPA Yearbook Pacemaker Finalists
- 2008-2009 Canadian Yearbook Review Winners-Fall
- 2008-2009 Canadian Yearbook Review Winners-Spring
- 2009 CSPA Crown Finalists
- 2009 CSPA Crown Winners
- 2009 JEA Adviser of the Year
- 2009 JEA/NSPA Fall Best of Show Winners
- 2009 NSPA Yearbook Pacemaker Awards
- 2009-2010 Canadian Yearbook Review Winners - Spring
- 2009-2010 Canadian Yearbook Review Winners-Fall
- 2010 ACP Yearbook Pacemaker Winners Named
- 2010 ACP/NSPA Pacemaker Finalists
- 2010 CSPA Crown Finalists
- 2010 Dow Jones News Fund Distinguished Adviser
- 2010 Fibermark's 17th Annual Specifier Award
- 2010 NSPA Fall Best of Show
- 2010 NSPA Yearbook Pacemaker Awards
- 2010 Printing Industries of America Awards
- 2010-2011 Canadian Yearbook Review Winners - Spring
- 2011 ACP Pacemaker Finalists
- 2011 Canon Powershot Winners
- 2011 CSPA Crown Finalists - 37 Herff Jones Yearbooks Named
- 2011 CSPA Crown Winners
- 2011 NSPA Best of Show Winners
- 2011 NSPA Fall Best of Show
- 2011 NSPA Pacemaker Finalists - 33 Herff Jones Yearbooks Named
- 2011 NSPA Yearbook Pacemaker Awards
- 2011 Premier Print Awards
- 2011 Quill & Scroll Yearbook Winners
- 2012 Canadian Yearbook Review Winners - Spring and Fall
- 2012 Canon Powershot Winners
- 2012 Contests and Critiques
- 2012 CSPA Crown Finalists - 38 2011 Herff Jones Yearbooks Named
- 2012 CSPA Crown Winners
- 2012 NSPA Fall Best of Show
- 2012 NSPA Yearbook Pacemaker Finalists - 32 Herff Jones Yearbooks Named
- 2012 Spring NSPA Best of Show Winners
- 2013 Canon Camera Winners
- 2013 CSPA Crown Finalists - 36 2012 Herff Jones Yearbooks Named
- 2013 Spring NSPA Best of Show Winners
- A Look Back - JEA Yearbook Advisers of the Year
- Herff Jones' Advisers Named 2006 JEA Yearbook Advisers of the Year
- How many 2008 award winning schools work with Herff Jones?
- How many 2009 award winning books did Herff Jones print?
- How should we self-critique our book?
- What is Herff Jones commitment to the environment?
- What is the secret to an award-winning yearbook?
- Who are the 2011 JEA advisers of the year?
- Who is JEA Adviser of the Year Dan Austin?
- Who is JEA Adviser of the Year Pete LeBlanc?
- Who is the JEA National Yearbook Adviser of the Year Mary Kay Downes?
- Who was recognized at the JEA/NSPA Spring Convention in April 2011?
- Why should I get my yearbook critiqued?
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Fonts
- Do you have any examples of type that works?
- How can I choose fonts that complement each other?
- How can I create an attention getting headline package?
- How do I install fonts in a Windows® operating system?
- How do I install fonts on a Mac running InDesign?
- How do I install fonts on a Mac running PageMaker 6.5 or 7?
- How should I use fonts?
- How should we go about choosing fonts for our yearbook pages?
- What do all these font terms mean?
- What is the difference between TrueType®, PostScript® and OpenType™ fonts?
- Where are my fonts?
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Illustrator / Freehand
- How can I create an embossed look in Adobe® FreeHand®?
- How can I create an embossed look in Adobe® Illustrator®?
- How can I create easy text effects in Adobe® FreeHand®?
- How can I create easy text effects in Adobe® Illustrator®?
- How can I distort text in Adobe® FreeHand®?
- How can I distort text in Adobe® Illustrator®?
- How can I place text on a curved line or circle in Adobe® Illustrator®?
- How can I place text or graphics on a curved line or circle in Adobe® Freehand®?
- How can I shatter text in Adobe® Illustrator®?
- How do I create a smudged effect in Adobe® FreeHand®?
- How do I create colors in Adobe® FreeHand?
- How do I create colors in Adobe® Illustrator®?
- How do I create grungy looking text in Adobe® FreeHand®?
- How do I create or rotate 3D shapes in Adobe® Illustrator®?
- How do I create soft shadows for text in Adobe® FreeHand®?
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InDesign
- 10 steps to creating a layout in Adobe® InDesign®
- All my Adobe® InDesign® pages are numbered 2 and 3 — how do I change this?
- Can I open Adobe® InDesign® files in an earlier version of InDesign®?
- Can I preflight and package my pages in Adobe® InDesign®?
- Do you have any tips for the index editor?
- Do you know any Adobe® InDesign® CS shortcuts?
- Do you know any Adobe® InDesign® CS2 shortcuts?
- Do you know any Adobe® InDesign® CS3 shortcuts?
- Do you know any Adobe® InDesign® CS4 shortcuts?
- Do you know any Adobe® InDesign® CS5 shortcuts?
- Do you know any Adobe® InDesign® CS6 shortcuts?
- How can I add type to a shape in Adobe® InDesign®?
- How can I build a better index?
- How can I combine the layouts from two different files?
- How can I create a duotone effect using only Adobe® InDesign®?
- How can I create a photo mosaic in Adobe® InDesign®?
- How can I create an embossing effect using Adobe® InDesign®?
- How can I flip my Adobe® InDesign® layout to create new versions?
- How can I make my photo transparent in Adobe® InDesign®?
- How can I turn text into a graphic element in Adobe® InDesign®?
- How can I use a different technique to place a photo into text in Adobe® InDesign®?
- How can we personalize our merchandising campaign using Adobe® InDesign®?
- How do I add a shadow to a photo in Adobe® InDesign®?
- How do I add pages to my Adobe® InDesign® file?
- How do I add text to my Adobe® InDesign® pages?
- How do I align elements in Adobe® InDesign®?
- How do I apply color to my pages in Adobe® InDesign®?
- How do I change my text from upper case to title case in Adobe® InDesign®?
- How do I check my graphic links in Adobe® InDesign®?
- How do I check spelling in Adobe® InDesign®?
- How do I create a Drop Cap in Adobe® InDesign®?
- How do I create a gradient in Adobe® InDesign®?
- How do I create a grid template in Adobe® InDesign®?
- How do I create a Text Drop Shadow in Adobe® InDesign®?
- How do I create a text wrap in Adobe® InDesign®?
- How do I create an index in Adobe® InDesign®?
- How do I create and use styles in Adobe® InDesign®?
- How do I create automatic page numbers in Adobe® InDesign®?
- How do I create colors in Adobe® InDesign®?
- How do I create text on a path in Adobe® InDesign®?
- How do I create transparent type on a photo in Adobe® InDesign®?
- How do I draw photo blocks in Adobe® InDesign®?
- How do I feather a photo edge in Adobe® InDesign®?
- How do I place a photo inside text in Adobe® InDesign®?
- How do I place graphics and digital images in Adobe ® InDesign®?
- How do I place my copy into columns in Adobe® InDesign®?
- How do I print my Adobe® InDesign® pages at 71%?
- How do I remove the background of my photo in Adobe® InDesign®?
- How do I remove the white box around my clip art in Adobe® InDesign®?
- How do I rotate objects in Adobe® InDesign®?
- How do I set indents in Adobe® InDesign®?
- How do I set tabs in Adobe® InDesign®?
- How do I skew objects or text in Adobe® InDesign®?
- How does transparency work in Adobe® InDesign®?
- How is a Compound Path created in Adobe® InDesign®?
- How many words are in my copy block?
- What are the tools on the Adobe® InDesign® toolbar?
- Why won't some of my yearbook page elements print?
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Merchandising
- A one day versus a one week sale
- Can including personality sketches help us sell more yearbooks?
- Do you have a magic bullet for selling the yearbook?
- Do you have any fun, interesting ideas that are sales-provoking?
- Do you have any yearbook marketing ideas?
- Do you have more ideas to help with yearbook sales?
- Ever hear of the World's Largest Yearbook Sale?
- How can I build an advertising team?
- How can I develop a plan to sell the yearbook?
- How can I plan a yearbook signing party?
- How can I sell more ads?
- How can I survive Distribution Day?
- How can I use Facebook to sell more yearbooks?
- How can we expand our yearbook sales?
- How can we promote our yearbook sale?
- How can we raise more money?
- How do I upload a database for Wish List Postcards?
- Should I work on my budget and next year's sales now?
- Tips for selling out
- What are yearbook staffs' favorite fundraisers?
- What materials are available to help conduct a successful Wish List sales campaign?
- Yearbook sales - pre-sale promotional planning
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PageMaker
- 10 steps to creating a layout in Adobe® PageMaker®
- All my Adobe® PageMaker® pages are numbered 2 and 3 — how do I change this?
- Can I preflight my pages in Adobe® PageMaker®?
- How can I put all my placed graphics inside a frame?
- How do I add pages to my Adobe® PageMaker® file?
- How do I add text to my Adobe® PageMaker® pages?
- How do I create a Drop Cap in Adobe® PageMaker®?
- How do I create a process color in Adobe® PageMaker®?
- How do I create a spot color in Adobe® PageMaker®?
- How do I create a text wrap in Adobe® PageMaker®?
- How do I create an index in Adobe® PageMaker®?
- How do I create automatic page numbers in Adobe® PageMaker®?
- How do I create styles in Adobe® PageMaker®?
- How do I draw photo blocks in Adobe® PageMaker®?
- How do I import text into Adobe® PageMaker®?
- How do I install a Postscript printer driver?
- How do I place a digital or scanned photo in Adobe® PageMaker®?
- How do I place a graphic into Adobe® PageMaker®?
- How do I place copy in columns using frames in PageMaker?
- How do I place my copy into columns in PageMaker?
- How do I rotate an object in Adobe® PageMaker®?
- How do I save my PageMaker file?
- How do I screen a color or create a tint in Adobe® PageMaker®?
- How do I send my pages to the plant?
- How do I set defaults in Adobe® PageMaker®?
- How do I spell check my Adobe® PageMaker® file?
- How do I use Save for Service Provider?
- How do I work with Frames in Adobe® PageMaker® 6.5 and 7.0?
- I don't have a graphics program; what can I do in Adobe® PageMaker®?
- Is there a way to quickly change text in Adobe® PageMaker®?
- My Adobe® PageMaker® Tool bar disappeared — where is it?
- My links are broken! How can I check my links in Adobe® PageMaker®?
- What is the easiest way to change lines and rectangles in Adobe® PageMaker®?
- Why did my graphic distort when I resized it in Adobe® PageMaker®?
- Why do my fonts look funky in Adobe® PageMaker®?
- Why do my graphics and photos look bad in Adobe® PageMaker®?
- Why is my Adobe® PageMaker® file so large? It won't fit on a disk!
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Photoshop
- Can I use my digital camera photos right from the camera?
- How can I color correct and balance a digital photo?
- How can I convert a photo to line art?
- How can I create a drop shadow for my text?
- How can I create a new photo edge in Adobe® Photoshop®?
- How can I create an action in Adobe® Photoshop®?
- How can I create another new photo edge in Adobe® Photoshop®?
- How can I create another photo edge in Adobe® Photoshop®?
- How can I create different backgrounds using Adobe® Photoshop®?
- How can I create neon-like type in Adobe® Photoshop®?
- How can I distort type with filters?
- How can I easily straighten a photo in Adobe® Photoshop®?
- How can I get rid of defects in my photo or clone an image?
- How can I make my text fade?
- How can I make one side of my photo fade?
- How can I move part of my photo onto another photo?
- How can I warp text?
- How do I adjust my photo in Adobe® Photoshop®?
- How do I create a duotone in Adobe® Photoshop®?
- How do I create a gradient in Adobe® Photoshop®?
- How do I create a reverse white shadow for my text?
- How do I create a zoom shadow?
- How do I create an inner glow on my text?
- How do I create text on a circle in Adobe® Photoshop®?
- How do I crop and size a photo in Adobe® Photoshop®?
- How do I get rid of the white box or background around my graphics?
- How do I ghost a photo?
- How do I make the edges of a photo fade?
- How do I place a photo into type?
- How do I scan a photo?
- How do I scan black and white line art?
- How do I sharpen a digital/scanned photo?
- What tools do I use to make a selection?
- Why should I scan my photos at 300 dpi?
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QuarkXPress
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Special Consultants
- A Guide to Coverage
- Building Traditions on Publications Staffs
- Copy Tips
- Design Principles
- Designs that stand out
- Font Foundations
- Fund-raising
- Mod Design
- Setting Goals
- Staff Manual
- The Purpose of Yearbook
- Typography Terminology
- Who is Special Consultant Kathy Daly?
- Who is Special Consultant Lynn Strause?
- Who is Special Consultant Paul Ender?
- Who is Technical Consultant Mark Child?
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Technical
- 10 Steps to creating Panel pages
- Any tips that will help prevent problems with my pages?
- Can I send a test file with digital photos to my plant?
- Can you recommend a system to orgainze our photos?
- Computer tips
- Do I have to submit Herff Jones Graphics files to the plant?
- Do you have suggestions for cropping photos?
- Do you have tips for scanning graphics and photographs?
- Do you have tips for submitting desktop pages?
- Herff Jones Green Commitment
- How are yearbook covers produced?
- How can I add the WOW factor to my cover?
- How can I crop a photo for maximum impact?
- How can I effectively capture the moment?
- How can I get my yearbook staff to take more photos?
- How can I get the right shot?
- How can I shoot like a pro?
- How can I tell if a color is accurate?
- How can I use light to improve my photos?
- How can I use negative space more effectively?
- How can I use negative space more effectively? TIPS
- How can I use QR codes in my yearbook?
- How can we plan ahead to make group photos hassle-free?
- How can we take better group photos?
- How do I build a yearbook spread?
- How do I choose a digital camera?
- How do I choose a scanner?
- How do I crop a photo?
- How do I use digital images on my pages?
- How do shutter speed and aperture determine correct exposure?
- How do you know what's fair game and what's not?
- Is eDesign flexible and easy to use?
- Should a photojournalist get close to their subject?
- What are em and en dashes?
- What are the different ways I can submit yearbook pages to Herff Jones?
- What are the PSPA guidelines for portrait photos on a CD?
- What do acronyms have to do with yearbooking?
- What do all these yearbook terms mean?
- What do the different cover terms mean?
- What do you mean, my graphics aren't linked?
- What does Color Management mean?
- What elements make up a page design?
- What format should I use for my graphics?
- What it takes to create your Yearbook
- What makes a good photo and why do they work?
- What should I look for when I buy a camera?
- Where can I get technical help?
- Yearbook Lingo
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Theme / Coverage
- 5713 Themes - Part 1: A-D
- 5713 Themes - Part 2: E-J
- 5713 Themes - Part 3: K-O
- 5713 Themes - Part 4: P-S
- 5713 Themes - Part 5: T-Z
- Are the lines between theme and concept starting to blur?
- Are there guidelines for designing our spine?
- Are we giving our readers a reason to buy our product?
- Can a whole-book look be cohesive and creative?
- Can I quote you?
- Can I use copyrighted material in my yearbook?
- Can two schools use the same theme but approach it differently?
- Can we improve our yearbook by getting it critqued?
- Can you have some award winning advisers critique a few spreads?
- Design that knocked my socks off!
- Do details play an important role in the yearbook?
- Do I capitalize it or use an apostrophe?
- Do you have a photo composition checklist?
- Do you have a plan?
- Do you have an example of a landscape format yearbook?
- Do you have an example of how a theme was used in a yearbook?
- Do you have an example of how a theme was used in a yearbook? Part 2
- Do you have an example of how a theme was used in a yearbook? Part 3
- Do you have any copy writing tips?
- Do you have any examples of different cover treatments?
- Do you have any examples of gatefolds?
- Do you have any examples of quarter-bound covers?
- Do you have any ideas for a theme?
- Do you have any ideas for survey questions?
- Do you have any ideas to help me design my cover?
- Do you have any more tip-in ideas?
- Do you have any other interesting cover examples?
- Do you have any suggestions for new story ideas?
- Do you have any tips for covering tragic events in our community? Part 1
- Do you have any tips for covering tragic events in our community? Part 2
- Do you have any tips for covering tragic events in our communty? Part 3
- Do you have any tips for photographing sports events?
- Do you have any tips for writing captions?
- Do you have examples of notebook/hand-drawn covers?
- Do you have examples of variations of the same cover idea?
- Do you have ideas for more creative coverage?
- Do you have ideas on how to find new angles for coverage?
- Do you have tips to help me improve the composition of my photos?
- Does everybody have a story?
- How can I become a better reporter?
- How can I conduct a better interview?
- How can I create a yearbook that is different from previous editions?
- How can I creatively organize my yearbook content?
- How can I establish a voice through the tone of my copy?
- How can I find new ways to tell the same story?
- How can I give my headlines Verbal Power to attract readers?
- How can I give my theme copy the power to be great?
- How can I make my yearbook pages look more polished and professional?
- How can I take a photo from ordinary to extraordinary?
- How can I use a tip-in to expand coverage?
- How can I use general topics as ideas for spreads?
- How can I write an attention-grabbing headline?
- How can I write captivating captions?
- How can my yearbook staff decide the best way to cover a story?
- How can we achieve an even fresher look for our yearbook?
- How can we broaden the coverage in our yearbook?
- How can we create a yearbook that is completely new and different each year?
- How can we create copy that ROCKS?
- How can we find our theme?
- How can we find the best stories?
- How can we make our yearbook easier to read?
- How can we make small portraits interesting?
- How can we start a caption revolution?
- How can we use color with intention on our pages?
- How can we use design to reflect the personality of our yearbook?
- How can we use tip-ins to expand our coverage?
- How can we write more compelling personal stories?
- How did one school celebrate their 100th volume?
- How do I create a ladder?
- How do I know when to break the rules?
- How do I write a good lead for an article?
- How do we develop our theme?
- How have other schools developed their theme?
- How should we cover campus deaths?
- Is good design in the eye of the beholder?
- Is there a RIGHT way to design a spread?
- Is there an easier way to create ad pages?
- Is there more than one way to do it right?
- Should we do a spring supplement?
- Top 10 ways to give your yearbook immediate impact!
- What are some ideas my yearbook staff can use when covering a story?
- What are some ways to start captions?
- What are the basics of yearbook design?
- What are the different sentence structure types?
- What does a concept-driven yearbook look like?
- What is a colophon?
- What is a scatter story?
- What is a spot color?
- What is a Yearbook?
- What is Acola who?
- What is HIP coverage?
- What is it that makes the most amazing yearbooks stand out?
- What is the Maestro concept?
- What is the role of color?
- What is the VOICE of your yearbook?
- What should we cover in our Academics section?
- What should we cover in our Clubs section?
- What should we cover in our Index section?
- What should we cover in our Sports section?
- What should we cover in our Student Life section?
- What should we cover on our People pages?
- What should we include in each section of our yearbook?
- What three truths lead to better photographs?
- What words are commonly misspelled?
- When should I use typographer's quotes?
- Why does a publication look and feel the way it does?
- Why go chronological?
- Why is it the more things change, the more they stay the same?
- Why should we add human interest stories to our yearbook?
- Yearbook themes — what a concept!
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Yearbook Staff
- 10 steps to organizing your staff and classroom
- 15 tips for surviving the first week
- A Day in the Life...of one adviser
- Can team-building exercises help create a cohesive staff?
- Can you suggest teambuilders for our yearbook staff?
- Can you suggest teambuilders for our yearbook staff? Part 2
- Do you have any advice for advisers?
- Do you have any cool ideas for recycling projects?
- Do you have any more recruiting tips?
- Do you have any tips for creating a staff recruitment plan?
- Do you have any tips to keep drama and confusion out of the yearbook staff room?
- How can I bring sound business practices into my yearbook program?
- How can I choose a COLORFUL yearbook staff?
- How can I get my staff to interview more students?
- How can I get students outside of yearbook to submit photos?
- How can I help my staff become better writers?
- How can I keep track of my pages?
- How can I make it easier to keep track of my deadlines?
- How can I recruit a diverse yearbook staff?
- How can I train new photographers?
- How can I transform my yearbook staff into a team?
- How can I write an eloquent goodbye?
- How can mini-deadlines help us meet our deadlines?
- How can we maintain momentum?
- How can we make deadlines less stressful?
- How did you make it through your first year advising?
- I need a Boredom Buster!
- Is teamwork important?
- Is there more to yearbook than just making the book?
- The More Things Change...
- The Yearbook is a student publication
- Using Google Docs
- What are some after-book activities I can use with my yearbook staff?
- What are some novel ways to start the year?
- What are some of your staff traditions?
- What are some ways your yearbook staff has fun?
- What can I do this spring to get ready for next year's book?
- What can we do after our yearbook is finished?
- What can we do to keep our staff happy and productive?
- What can we do to make our staff feel like a family?
- What did you learn in yearbook?
- What do you mean by Managing Up?
- What does it take to be an effective editor?
- What is a Yerd?
- What is the FISH philosophy?
- What is the ultimate in Yerdwear?
- What is the ultimate source of staff info & more?
- What should be in my staff manual?
- What should I be doing now?
- Who are Yerds Brianna & Melinda White?
- Who are Yerds Graham Beck and Ian Beck?
- Who are Yerds Mackenzie Metcalfe and Zach Drake?
- Who is destined for the corner office?
- Who is Yerd Andrew Visconti?
- Who is Yerd Corey Lau?
- Who is Yerd Jordie Ferrer?
- Who is Yerd Kathryn Wardell?
- Who is Yerd Kendall Crouther?
- Who is Yerd Mary Lieb?
- Who is Yerd Molly Smith?
- Why should my staff attend a journalism convention?