The Colophon - Balfour Yearbooks Blog

As your yearbook staff is hitting its stride, finishing pages and checking them off your ladder diagram (best feeling ever!), the last thing we want is a tech question slowing you down. 

Balfour's EZPix events can help with more than just portrait collection. We've expanded our unique EZPix tool for requesting event-specific photos from your school community!

Our latest innovation brings all things yearbook to one place. We’ve gathered lesson plans, videos, examples, tips and team-building ideas—many crowdsourced from the yearbook community. Jump in and

Whether it’s virtual school, in-person instruction or a combination of both, we continue to reinvent the yearbook experience for schools and students. EZPix, the newest innovation from Balfour,

Before this spring, yearbook staffs kept their inside pages a secret, reveling in the reveal on distribution day. But the pandemic forced staffs to rethink their marketing strategy, doing something

No school? No problem. Thanks to an exclusive collaboration with Tribute, we’re offering virtual signing parties for students missing out on yearbook signing.

Encore, the yearbook industry's first HTML5 software, recently celebrated its THIRD birthday! We continue to improve the program, adding feature enhancements based on your input and requests. Check

When the bulk of a yearbook is photography, it can be stressful ensuring every event is covered. And that stress can be exacerbated when it turns out photos are blurry or poor quality. Having another

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

Does your yearbook deliver in the summer? If so, did you ever wish you could extend yearbook content by covering spring sports, prom, graduation and more? You can! With BAL4.tv QR codes you can add

by Erin Coggins

Erin Coggins is the adviser at Sparkman High School in Harvest, Alabama.

I love to travel and meet new people. When they ask what I do for a living, I proudly respond that I teach