Introducing: Pictavo

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Exciting, intuitive software designed to help your yearbook staff communicate, collaborate and create.

Sophisticated Design Tools

Students will reach new heights of creativity with Pictavo! Easy-to-use design tools deliver powerful, professional results without the complicated steps found in other design programs. Pictavo is convenient, browser-based software that works in the most popular web browsers!

Timesaving Templates

Choose from hundreds of templates that you can use as-is or as a starting point. Pictavo templates are available for single pages or spreads and include placeholder text that helps you envision the final page layout. You can even create and save your own templates!

Advanced Page Layout

Flip photos, clip art and design elements horizontally or vertically; or rotate photos, clip art and design elements in 1-degree increments. The choice is yours! Want a photo black and white? Done. Want a photo sepia tone? Done. Pictavo offers powerful tools to adjust the transparency of elements, brightness, contrast, even drop shadows are easy to apply.

Advanced Features

Pictavo includes more than 100 of today’s most popular fonts. One text box can hold multiple type styles and sizes and you can adjust the space between letters, character widths, and the space between lines. Helpful tab stops can be created for designing attractive scoreboards. Pictavo also includes automatic portrait image flows along with hundreds of choices of professionally designed art.

Comprehensive Project Management

Easy management of access rights, process flow and page tracking allows you to focus on what’s really important—helping your students create a great yearbook! At a glance, the Dashboard shows overall book status, page status, countdown to book deadline and book specs. This gives you a visual of where attention is needed most.

Powerful Organization Tools

Pictavo offers advanced adviser control over permissions and access rights to the book. Create groups and assign users with specific access privileges. Remember: Pictavo has only one deadline… no more multiple deadlines… capture more of your school year in your book!

Powerful Collaboration

Communication is key when creating your school’s yearbook. Pictavo gives you and your staff the tools necessary to easily coordinate and work as a team. Features such as chat, group chat, sticky notes, and file sharing allow easy collaboration. Multiple users can work at one time and all users will see real-time changes as they work. Track image usage throughout the book and e-mail PDFs or post PDFs online.

System Requirements

Hardware

• Minimum: 512MB of RAM
• High-Speed Internet Access

Supported Operating Systems

• Windows®
  • Microsoft® Windows®7
  • Microsoft® Windows®Vista
  • Microsoft® Windows®XP
• Mac®
  • Apple® Mac OS® X Snow Leopard® (v10.6)
  • Apple® Mac OS® X Leopard® (v10.5)
  • Apple® Mac OS® X Tiger® (v10.4)

Supported Browsers

• Windows®
  • Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 7 and 8
  • Mozilla® Firefox® 3.0 and 3.6
  • Apple® Safari® 4 and 5
  • Google Chrome^™ 9 and 10
• Mac®
  • Mozilla® Firefox® 3.0 and 3.6
  • Apple® Safari® 4 and 5

Java Runtime Environment

• 1.5 or higher

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