The Colophon - Balfour Yearbooks Blog

Great photography is crucial to a fantastic yearbook.

No matter where you are in the production process, photo skills need to continue to be improved and reinforced. For interesting photo

National Yearbook Week is October 4-10. This honorary week (the first full week in October) is dedicated to the role that yearbooks play in America. It’s a great time to celebrate our emotional

BalfourTools^® and Adobe InDesign^® go hand in hand. They are two parts of the page construction process because BalfourTools makes Adobe InDesign yearbook friendly. It’s the #1 yearbook plug-in for

It’s the biggest yearbook sale of the year — and you’ll want to be a part of it! Schools across the country learn useful selling secrets during this annual event. National Buy Your Yearbook Day has

Once the theme is adopted, the cover created, the theme spreads refined and the typefaces selected, it is time to take theme development to the next level (verbal and visual support). The theme may

Having trouble getting photos of Cross Country? Golf? Field trips? Physics projects?

Yearbook photographers can’t be everywhere so why not allow students or parents who are at sporting events,

National Buy Your Yearbook Day (NBYYD) was created to designate a special time of the school year to focus specifically on yearbook sales. Schools across the country join together in a coordinated

by Jack Kennedy Dow Jones Newspaper Fund 1993 Teacher of the Year

The difference between good reporting and great reporting lies in the “little things.”

Grading students’ work for scholastic publications is a frequently shared challenge for new and experienced advisers alike. Portfolio assessments are a highly effective evaluation tool for journalism