2016-2017
Pictavo—powerful yearbook software designed to
help you collaborate, manage, create and sell yearbooks.
Featuring the ability to gather photos from your entire school
community and sell yearbooks, ads and other school products online!
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Pictavo
™
www.pictavo.com
Pictavo is an advanced, browser-based
page layout and design software used
by thousands of schools to create
yearbooks. Whether you’re a beginner
or have years of experience, Pictavo
makes it easy to produce a yearbook
you can be proud of!
Pictavo
™
Community
www.pictavocommunity.com
Pictavo Community is where parents,
students and other community
members can go to upload photos for
consideration by the yearbook staff.
This online community also makes it
easy to purchase yearbooks,
ads and other school products.
• ADVANCED PAGE LAYOUT TOOLS
• SOPHISTICATED DESIGN TOOLS
• COMPREHENSIVE PROJECT MANAGEMENT
• POWERFUL COLLABORATION
• EASY PHOTO UPLOAD
• ONLINE SHOPPING
• MOBILE APP
ACCESS PICTAVO COMMUNITY WHEREVER
YOU GO WITH THE MOBILE APP!
New Features and Fan Favorites!
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Pictavo is always at the cutting edge of technology with new features and robust capabilities
that keep it the leading yearbook design software!
• TAKE TYPOGRAPHY TO THE NEXT LEVEL WITH
NEGATIVE CHARACTER AND LINE SPACING
• USE TEXT WRAPPING TO COMPLEMENT THE
SHAPE OF IMAGES AND ART ELEMENTS
• Improve accuracy of drawing lines with enhanced
line tool
• Add an outline or drop shadow to your text
• Search, nd, lter and save favorite design elements
for quicker access
• Further customize your yearbook with theme or school
colors using Pictavo’s expanded colorable art library
• Drag and drop current events right onto your pages as
backgrounds or clip art
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EASILY CREATE A CLEAN, MODULAR PAGE
DESIGN WITH MORE COORDINATING SNIPPETS
NEW
NEW
Advanced Page Layout Tools
Discover how advanced page layout tools, automatic portrait ow and index generation make
your yearbook creation process easier than ever in Pictavo.
Convenient, browser-based software that allows
users to access the yearbook anywhere they have Internet!
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ADVANCED PAGE LAYOUT
• Search, nd, lter and save favorite design elements for quicker use
• Maintain a clean and consistent appearance on all pages with column guides
• Group elements together to easily move them as a unit
• Quickly and easily zoom in and out of areas on a page
• Work in inches or picas—whichever you prefer
• Rotate design elements (including shapes, photos, clip art and Snippets)
in 1-degree increments
• Optional grid view and guides enable perfect accuracy
• Snap-to-grid and snap-to-guides features enable precise placement
of page elements
• Easily align and distribute elements for consistent, uniform spacing
TIMESAVING TEMPLATES
• Choose from hundreds of professionally designed templates
• Easily add callouts, lists, polls, scoreboards and more with Snippets
• Designs available in Snippets, single pages and spreads
• Placeholder text helps you envision nal page layout
• Use as-is or make adjustments and edits as desired
• Create and save your own
AUTOMATIC PORTRAIT FLOWS
• Quickly ow portraits and names onto pages
• Choose multiple ow types throughout book (teacher, grade,
homeroom, etc.)
• Alter portraits on the page without needing to re-ow
• Calculate how many pages the portraits will need before owing
INDEXING
• Create your index in record time
• Review and make edits before owing index onto pages
• Dene the appearance of your index and leave space for images
to add visual interest
• Enhanced indexing reects page edits immediately—no need to reow
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Sophisticated Design Tools
Students will reach new heights of creativity with Pictavo! Easy-to-use design tools deliver
powerful, professional results without the complicated steps found in other design programs.
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ADVANCED TEXT FEATURES
• More than 130 of the latest fonts in styles that include serif,
sans serif, decorative and handwritten
• One text box can hold multiple type styles, sizes and columns
• Choose among a wide range of special characters
• Easily adjust text spacing, leading, alignment and style
• Choose from a variety of text box effects including transparency,
borders, outline and more
• Reduce errors with the real-time spell-checker
PICTURE-PERFECT PHOTO EFFECTS
• Erase and crop out parts of images
• Change photos to black and white or sepia tone
• Manipulate photos by adjusting brightness, contrast and transparency
or adding drop shadows to achieve the desired look
• Quickly zoom, crop, resize, ip photos or distort the proportion
for a special effect
GET CREATIVE WITH THE ART LIBRARY
• Thousands of choices, professionally designed specically for schools
• New additions added every year
• Flag your favorites in separate ‘Favorites’ folders to easily access
• Search function helps narrow down or nd choices
• Add your own custom art
• Flip backgrounds and clip art horizontally and vertically
• Use the Pictavo color palette to customize a variety of grayscale
backgrounds and clip art
• Current Events Backgrounds and Clip Art are available to drag and drop
onto any page
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SUPER BOWL XLIX CHAMPIONS
Tom Brady celebrated with teammate
Julian Edelman, who caught the go
ahead touchdown that secured the
Patriots their fourth Super Bowl win. A
goal line interception in the last minute
of the game by the Patriots made for an
intense 28-24 victory over the Seahawks.
WORLD CUP FEVER
AMERICAN HORSE OF
THE YEAR
After winning the
Kentucky Derby and
Preakness Stakes,
California Chrome was
pegged to end the
36-year Triple Crown
drought by winning
the Belmont Stakes
but an injury out of the
gate secured a tie for
fourth-place.
UCONN MEN AND WOMEN
BASKETBALL TAKE TITLES
For the second time in a decade,
the University of Connecticut
claimed NCAA championship
titles in both men’s and women’s
college basketball.
Derek Jeter says a nal
goodbye before hitting a
walk-off single in his last
at-bat after his 20-season
career with the Yankees.
Fan support for the U.S. Men’s National
Team was stronger than ever in the 2014
FIFA World Cup in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
U.S. nished 15th after losing to Belgium
(2-1) in round 16.
In the nals Mario
Götze scored an
extra time goal for
Germany to secure
the World Cup with
a 1-0 victory over
Argentina.
TWICE THE VICTORY
A LEGEND RETIRES
» Selected 1st
overall by Cleveland
in the 2003 NBA
draft
» Left Cleveland as
a free agent in 2010
to play for Miami,
winning 2 NBA
championships
» Retur ned home to
play for Cleveland in
2014 after opting out
of his Miami contract
After a 3-2 win in Game 7 of the
World Series, the Giants became
the second National League
team ever to accomplish the feat.
A year after the 2013
Boston Marathon
tragedy, Mebrahtom
Keflezighi won the 118th
marathon surrounded
by a crowd
of a million
supporters,
becoming the
first American
man to do so in
over 30 years.
BOSTON STRONG
3 TROPHIES IN 5 YEARS
LEBRON’S
JOURNEY
MO’NE DAVIS NAMED
SPORTS ILLUSTRATED
KIDS:
SPORTS KID
OF THE YEAR
The 13-year-old
pitcher is the
first girl to win
a Little League
World Series
game, leading
the Taney
Dragons to a
4-0 victory in
August.
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YEAR IN REVIEW
SPORTS
Photos Courtesy of Tribune News Service Unless Otherwise Indicated
TAYLOR’S BIG YEAR
2014 belonged to Taylor Swift. Within the rst week of
releasing her album 1989 in October, it sold 1.287 million
copies. After only nine weeks it went on to sell 3.66
million copies, beating out Frozen for 2014’s best-selling
album. Swift continued to make headlines when she
announced her decision to pull all of her music from the
popular streaming site, Spotify, after disagreeing with the
site’s low-royalty streaming service.
On September 9 at Apple
Inc.’s product launch event,
U2’s Songs of Innocence
album was automatically
downloaded onto as many
as 500 million iTunes
customers’ devices,
sparking controversy and
backlash among some users.
AMERICA’S ORIGINAL
SWEETHEART DIES
Shirley Temple, American film,
television actress, singer, dancer
and public servant, passed away
at the age of 85. She was best
known for her ringlet hair and
dimples, starring in roles such
as Bright Eyes.
U2 INVADES
ITUNES PLAYLIST
TOP SONGS OF THE YEAR
IGGY AZALEA ON THE SCENE
AMERICAN MUSIC
AWARDS
The American Music
Awards belonged to
British pop stars, One
Direction. The boy band
secured three major wins:
Artist of the Year, Favorite
Pop/Rock Band/Duo/
Group, and Favorite Pop/
Rock Album.
The Australian recording artist
had a breakout year, stealing
the summer’s top music
spots with hits Fancy and
collaboration, Problem.
For the rst time in more
than 50 years a comedy
album reached the top of the
Billboard 200 chart. Weird Al’s
Mandatory Fun sold 104,000
copies in the rst week.
ONE DIRECTION ON TOP
WEIRD AL HITS #1
1. Happy, Pharrell Williams
2. All of Me, John Legend
3. Dark Horse, Katy Perry
4. All About That Bass, Meghan Trainor
5. Fancy, Iggy Azalea
6. Talk Dirty, Jason Derulo ft. 2 Chainz
7. Turn Down for What, DJ Snake & Lil Jon
8. Shake It Off, Taylor Swift
9. Let It Go, Idina Menzel
10. Stay With Me, Sam Smith
GARTH BROOKS IS BACK
The most popular country star of the
90’s is back after more than a decade.
In November, album Man Against
Machine debuted and sold a million
copies by January, just in time to kick
off his world tour January 9th.
GRAMMY AWARDS – GENERAL CATEGORIES
Album of the Year – Morning Phase, Beck
Best New Artist – Sam Smith
Song of the Year – Stay With Me, Sam Smith
Record of the Year – Stay With Me, Sam Smith
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A LOOK BACK
Photos Courtesy of Tribune News Service Unless Otherwise Indicated
Comprehensive Project Management
Easy management of access rights, process ow and page tracking allows you to focus on
what’s really important — helping your students create a great yearbook!
Easy access anytime, anywhere, with real-time changes seen by all users.
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POWERFUL ORGANIZATION TOOLS
• Assign users to any number of pages upon account creation
• Advanced adviser control over permissions and access rights
• Advisers can create groups and assign users with specic
access privileges
• Pages are easily organized with page descriptions in the ladder
• One deadline only—no worrying about multiple deadlines
PROJECT STATUS
• Enhanced user tracking lets you see who has been on which pages,
when and for how long
• Quickly view a status report, get specic data for grading
or a closer look at progress and edits
• Dashboard gives quick view of overall book status, page status,
countdown to book deadline and book specs
• Production status is tracked by page and individual
• Approve pages individually or approve multiple pages at once—and
lock pages after adviser approval
• Instantly see where attention is needed most
QUALITY CHECKS
• Photo tracking capabilities allow for easy student coverage—tag
photos upon upload or while editing a page
• Easily view how many times a person is tagged in photos throughout
the book
• Reduce errors with enhanced trim line, submission warnings, and
image resolution checks
• Ability to lock spreads ensure pages designed together,
stay together
• Limit font and color selections to maintain consistency and design
concept throughout book
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Powerful Collaboration
Communication is key when creating your school’s yearbook. Pictavo gives you and your staff
the tools necessary to easily coordinate and work as a team.
Features such as chat, notes and sharing allow easy collaboration.
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PROJECT COLLABORATION
• Multiple users can work at the same time with
changes reected in real time as they save their work
• Create folders and upload images for the whole staff
to review and sort
• Add sticky notes to call attention to specic areas
of interest
• Advisers can monitor and track sticky notes
• Book-level image tagging lets all users search and
nd images
CHAT
• Online chat allows for quick communication
• Group chat allows multiple users to collaborate on
any aspect of the project
• Send messages any time—ofine users will receive a
prompt when they log in
• Advisers can monitor and track chats
VIEWING & FILE SHARING
• Take advantage of Pictavo’s high resolution page
previews to ensure image quality
• PDFs of pages can be emailed and printed for
review or approval
• Page PDFs can also be shared as a Web page
for quicker access
“I love Pictavo and the background and template
options. The program is very user friendly, which is
very important to me so my students can create
the yearbook.”
-Laura Burgess
Ray Graham TC High School
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Easily set up your own school store that allows community members to upload photos and
purchase products online!
UPLOAD SETTINGS
• Determine if you’d like community members to be
notied once their image(s) have been used
• Set the maximum number of images individual
community members are allowed to upload
• Dene a list of categories that community
members can upload photos to
• Set image submission deadlines for Community
members
Pictavo Community (School Admin View)
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SCHOOL SETTINGS
• Determine if you’d like the 5% service fee (assessed to all
credit card purchases) to be included in the product price
or separated
• Decide if you’d like to offer discounts to qualied purchasers
PRODUCT SETTINGS
• Dene the products you wish to sell online; options include
yearbooks, recognition and business ads or other products
you wish to offer
• Describe each product and set the order deadline date(s)
• Set product prices and maximum available for purchase
Easily set up your own school store that allows community members to upload photos and
purchase products online!
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SALES AT A GLANCE
• Keep a constant watch on all sales through an
automatically generated Sales at a Glance report
• See individual product sales by number of orders and
amount collected
• Track credit card, check and cash payments by
product type
TRACK ORDERS
• Use one convenient system for tracking online orders
(credit card) and ofine orders (checks, cash, and
credit cards)
• Track whether each purchaser has received the product(s)
they ordered
• Make a note of any individual circumstances related to a
particular order (e.g. special delivery instructions)
VIEW ORDERS
• Easily review all data collected from
each order
• Filter data to see only the information
you’re interested in
• See how much tax has been
collected, if applicable, so you can
submit it as required by law
• Export data into Microsoft
®
Excel
®
for
even greater report customization
Pictavo Community (Community Member View)
Encourage community members to upload photos for your consideration in the yearbook and to
purchase your school’s yearbook, recognition or business ads and other products via Pictavo Community.
ONLINE ACCESS
Joining and accessing Pictavo
™
Community is easy! Just
go to www.pictavocommunity.com or the Mobile App to
create an account or log in. Community members can
quickly and easily upload photos, design* and purchase
ads, shop for school products and order their yearbooks
all online!
*computer only
EASY PHOTO UPLOAD
Everyone has a chance to be involved! Community members
can upload as many photos as allowed. Images stay
organized as members must select a pre-dened folder to
upload images into along with indicating who is in the photo.
Yearbook staff can easily identify and choose the images they
see t for inclusion in the yearbook.
ONLINE SHOPPING
Shop for everything in one place! Community members
can view and purchase all the products their school offers,
including yearbooks, recognition ads, business ads or any
other companion products offered (e.g. signing pens,
posters, t-shirts).
Both standard and personalized yearbooks can be ordered
at once, no need for additional paperwork.
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Pictavo Community makes it easy to purchase, design
and create recognition and business ads for placement
into the school’s yearbook.
AD DESIGNING (COMPUTER ONLY)
Pictavo Community walks purchasers through the
process of choosing a design template based on the
desired size, importing their images and customizing
their ad with text, clipart and backgrounds. A simple
user interface makes editing and creating easy enough
for anyone to do! Purchasers can also upload their
own design.
AD SIZES
With four standard sizes to choose from, purchasers can
customize their ads to the sizes you set to offer (full-page,
half-page, quarter-page or eighth-page).
AD PURCHASING
With the Pictavo Community check-out process,
purchasers just add the desired ad to their cart, ll
out standard credit card and billing information, and
submit using the secure shopping cart. It’s that simple!
A conrmation email will be sent after the order has
been submitted.
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Flash
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• Oracle
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Java
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(if importing a portrait database)
Windows
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• Microsoft
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Internet Explorer
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• Mozilla
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Firefox
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• Apple
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Safari
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• Google Chrome
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Firefox
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• Apple
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Safari
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