Our publishing partner, Studio Source Yearbooks, offers a few different software solutions as we know that different schools have different needs in their yearbook design process. Below are candid reviews from our experience and video walkthrough and demos to help you decide which software best suits your needs.
I will need to know which software you prefer after approval of your yearbook service agreement so I can set up your account. You are always able to change software options the next year.
Memento:
Walkthrough Video: https://vimeo.com/359647674
Support Site: http://support.studiosourceyearbooks.com/memento
Demo Site: https://books.yearbooks.me/login
School ID: SSYDemo Username: demouser Password: Yearbook1!
ADVANTAGES:
Memento is ideal for small & medium sized books built by a limited designers (eg. two teachers, a PTA mom, a teacher with a few student assistants). It has a simple-to-use editor with a fluid design experience. Portraits are best flown 1 grade per section, 1 class or grade per page. Memento has not released its update yet, but promised a revamped layouts and decorations collection. Memento will work well for a designer who wants to work quickly, and prefers to work intuitively to make their pages (drag&drop, resize&reposition elements easily).
Pixami:
Walkthrough Video: https://vimeo.com/289018047
Support Site: http://support.studiosourceyearbooks.com/pixami
Demo Site: http://bookbuilder.pixami.com/
Username: StudioSourceDemo3 Password: demopassword
ADVANTAGES:
Pixami is ideal for a larger team since the team permissions are more obvious. The interface is more complicated, but it can do more complex portrait groups, such as flowing multiple groups continuously across a series of pages. They added an events calendar and a coverage report in their latest update, and have a collection of decorated frame border effects, as well as the ability to drop an image into text. They have refreshed their content collection, which was just posted on our site yesterday: https://support.studiosourceyearbooks.com/pixami/software_content/. Pixami would most likely be preferred by a designer who likes to plan their workflow precisely, and use premade layouts & themes to put photos on pages.
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