Tips for Your Best Digital & Print Yearbook with FC Yearbook

It’s important you follow a few guidelines to make sure your digital and print yearbook comes out perfectly…

  • Everyone, staff & students, who gets a digital yearbook must have a portrait or a “not pictured” portrait placeholder in the yearbook. Their name must be on the same page usually under the portrait or in the right or left side of the same page. You can use our placeholders or your own. Only people with a portrait or placeholder can access the yearbook.

  • These must be imported as portraits in Pixami software, or clearly be a visual portrait if done in other software. Portraits must have an associated PSPA index file supplied by your photographer, and must be uploaded using the Portrait Import feature in the software. If you are unsure, please contact us before uploading your portraits.

  • These portraits are tapped on in the digital edition to sign yearbooks, so for example, a simple text list of “not pictured” students will not work.

  • We suggest up to 25 portraits per page—50 max. After that the touchpoints are too small to tap individuals on a phone.

  • Pixami comes with excellent tutorial videos and in-app help. Here’s a video for the 2022-2023 enhancements: https://youtu.be/FXxmnegYiog and here’s a comprehensive Pixami video https://youtu.be/ftyAsQJx2Fo

  • If you don’t use Pixami, you must supply a separate list of all students and staff, ideally in Excel with first name, last name and optionally teacher or grade.

Tips for a great yearbook day

  • Digital yearbooks should be distributed to everyone in the yearbook with a portrait in the whole school. Only those with codes can order print yearbooks from the app.

  • You will be provided with private unlock codes for students which can be emailed ahead of time. Any student or staff member can use any code. Codes cannot be shared or re-used. Your yearbook is available in the app indefinitely.

  • The app can be downloaded here and includes a demo yearbook. It can hold yearbooks from multiple years and can allow siblings to log in and out from the same device.

  • If any students or staff have any issues they should use tap the support link at the bottom of the opening screen of the app.

Don’t hesitate to Contact us for technical help if you need it!