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Activity Photo: Any photo that is not a portrait. Activity photos can include unposed (candid) subjects or posed subjects such as club, team or class photos.

Aqueous Coating: A glossy, environmentally safe coating on a soft Signature Design Cover.

Background: Graphic design used to fill and enhance the yearbook page design.

Best of the Best Yearbook Contest: One of Lifetouch’s annual yearbook recognition contest. Each entry is judged in four categories: Best Theme, Best Look, Best Story and Best Cover. 

Best of Volumes Yearbook Contest: Lifetouch's annual yearbook contest for Volumes program customers. Each entry will be judged in five areas: Theme, Coverage, Design, Writing and Photography. The yearbook with the highest composite score will be named Best of Volumes.

Bitmap: Type of graphic composed of pixels in a grid. Each pixel or “bit” contains color information for the image. Bitmap graphic formats have a fixed resolution. Resizing a bitmap graphic can result in distortion. Common bitmap formats are GIF, JPG, TIF and BMP.

Bleed: When any image or element touches the edge of the page, extending beyond the trim edge, leaving no margin, it is said to bleed. It may bleed or extend off one or more sides.

Bold: A typeface with thicker strokes than regular. Bold is used for emphasis to make certain words and phrases stand out from surrounding text and is often used for caption lead-ins.

BookEnds: Available in the Black-and-White TimesSaver and Black-and-White Memory Maker programs. BookEnds allow the customer to add color pages to an otherwise black-and-white book. A Four-Page BookEnd includes two pages of color (pages 1 & 4 or 2 & 3) within the first four pages of the book and two pages within the last four pages of the book (use pagination chart to ensure color pages appear on a single flat). An Eight-Page BookEnd includes the first four pages and the last four pages in color. BookEnds are only available in saddlestiched books with a page count divisible by eight. The entire 16-page signature must be submitted.

Borders: A graphic design placed along the outer edges of a yearbook page.

Scanner-Ready: Pages that are fully prepared to be scanned by Lifetouch. Schools build by adhering photos, type and/or artwork to layout boards with rubber cement. Also referred to as paste-up pages.

Candid Photo: An activity photo in which the subjects are informal, spontaneous and unposed.

Caption: Text written in reference to a photo that explains to the reader what is happening in the photo.

Clip Art: Artwork that is used to enhance the yearbook page or the cover.

CMYK: Cyan (blue), Magenta (red), Yellow, and Black. The four colors required to print process color (full-color pages).

Colophon: An inscription page found at the end of a yearbook listing details that pertain to print specifications of the book.

Copy: Text in a book. It can be “body copy,” “caption copy” or “headline copy.”

Crop: To eliminate (opaque, mask, cut or trim) portions of an illustration or photo to fit a specific area or to capture only a portion of the photo on a yearbook page.

Custom Layout: Original page layouts created by a school.

DPI: Dots Per Inch. Used to measure resolution for scanning and printing. Generally, more dots per inch means a higher resolution, a greater amount of visible detail in the image, and a larger file size.

Designer Track Layout: A template that a customer uses to create a digital yearbook page in the Lifetimes, TimesSaver and WebEase programs. Layouts include designated places for photos, headlines and captions, making it easy to create a professional looking page.

Desktop Publishing: Process of using the computer and specific types of software to combine text and graphics to produce the yearbook.

Die-Cut: Student portraits supplied by the school photographer that are individually cut into a specific size ready to be pasted down on layout boards or sent to the plant in a “bundle” for yearbook portrait page reproduction.

Digital Image: A photo composed of pixels (captured on a digital camera, scanned, or created from scratch with image-creation software).

Double Page Spread: The left and right-side pages of a yearbook that are visible at one time (e.g., pages 2–3 or pages 4–5.)

Download: To take photos from a digital camera and transfer them to a computer. Can also mean transferring files from an e-mail or from a Web site into one’s own computer.