pictavo

Nimble, modern, and elegant, Pictavo leads the way in yearbook creation software. And, it should! It’s directed by the recognized innovators in our industry.

From even the most competitive journalistic staff to volunteers creating their students' books over a weekend, this program makes it happen for every skill level. It’s faster and more intuitive than anything seen before. The platform has been running swiftly in HTML5 since 2017. (An industry trendsetter!)

It outpaces the lightweight scrapbook builders and leaves the old-fashioned yearbook company platforms in the dust.

PICTAVO FEATURES

Pictavo users not only enjoy best-in-class type functionality and an unparalleled grid-based, modular, formatting process but also built-in timesavers for spread creation like pick-and-choose templates and modules. No matter your experience level, or the goal you’ve set for your program, we’ve developed incomparable solutions to help you create the book of your dreams.

In Pictavo’s art menus, for instance, discover the largest collection of new-every-year predesigned books from any company. Drag-and-drop page templates and art elements onto pages, drag your images (directly from your desktop) to photo boxes, and add copy when you want. In a few minutes, you’ll have another finished spread.

Not a template-kind-of-person? That’s cool, too. Start from scratch with our sleek workspace and oh-so-magaziney grid and design to your heart’s content.

SINGLE DEADLINE

With Pictavo, you have one deadline for all your pages.

You read correctly but it bears repeating: One. Deadline.

When you’ve obsessed over the design, tweaked the copy, changed the headline 10 times, triple-spell-checked, proofed and moved them around on your ladder, submit your pages all together. Then, in the same time as your current printer, your books arrive.

We print your book at one time with one press operator managing the process. This ensures your color is consistent all the way through your book. And, this means your book gets our undivided attention.

With Pictavo, you get both the highest quality book and the longest amount of time to gather content, Our care, capacity, capabilities, support, and slightly obsessive attention to detail show on every page of your yearbook. Every time.

FM PRINTING

In other Smyth-sewn books, have you ever noticed colors changing from one signature to another? Smaller press capacity forces students to submit as many as five deadlines per year. How do they deliver identical color settings from one signature to another?

Advisers tell us they simply don’t. Color consistency matters. It’s a hallmark of our press operators.

Only frequency-modulated (FM) screening meets the Pictavo™ standard, and only we bring this to the pages of every one of our Smyth-sewn books.

FM screening uses small, fixed dots to reveal unparalleled detail and smoothness in photographs. Darker hues summon more dots, while lighter hues call for fewer.

Our superior printing method consumes far less ink to achieve far superior color reproduction. These printing advancements support our environmental commitments and speed our production, contributing to our faster turnaround times.

SUPPORT

Pictavo boasts a team of yearbook gurus who offer any level of assistance — from troubleshooting in the moment to full-on workshops and spread critiques — when you need it. Ask your rep for expert-level experience.

Our corps of experts possess decades of in-school classroom experience with proven, tried-and-true techniques to keep staff on deadline and produce books students actually want to buy. They love to help newbies and seasoned advisers through the yearbook process. Let’s talk about how Pictavo can give you the personal help you’ve always wanted.

We can work with advisers one-on-one to create a workflow that helps you be most successful and least stressful.

We’re not just yearbook software.

We’re your yearbook partner.

CURRICULUM

Advisers told us they needed a year’s worth of lesson plans and support materials at their fingertips. Pictavo delivered.

The country’s only all-digital, use-as-you-want, 180-day curriculum has an astounding 400-plus pages of carefully curated yearbook instruction and business support that’s pedagogically sound for all levels.

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