Yearbook Vocabulary

3. About three to four sentences that describe a photo
4. bars: Bars, usually blue, found at the edges of Walsworth’s templates and Designer Series layouts to help you determine how far to extend a bleeding element off the page. You should always draw bleeding elements to the outside edge of the bleed bar
8. quote: Exactly what the person said; appears inside quotation marks
9. The outside of the yearbook
10. copy: The text of the main story
11. Eliminating unwanted elements in a photo
12. colors: Two colors directly across from one another on a color wheel, such as blue and orange, yellow and purple, red and green

1. Page or pages at the end of the yearbook that verbally wraps up the book; contains theme elements
2. An unposed photo showing action
4. Extension of images, graphics or backgrounds beyond the trim marks on the edges of a page, leaving no white margin
5. spreads (DPS): Two facing pages designed as one unit
6. Formula: Formula for writing captions – the Attention Getter is a mini headline; Basic Information is the first sentence containing the 5 Ws and H and written in present tense; Complementary Information is additional information not seen in the photo written in past tense; Direct Quote is a quote from someone in the photo
7. Topics featured in the yearbook and how they are covered
11. Cut-out background, a term for when the background is deleted from the main subject of the photo