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Editor: Zoom & Pan your page in the Editor. Text drop-shadow added. Eleven new fonts have been added.
*Layouts: *Templates versus layouts distinction is removed. Layouts are now grouped in thematic collections, no sorting by number of images. Many new sport and general design collections published.
*White-labelling options for publishers: *Add custom collections of layouts, backgrounds and elements for your clients. Optionally disable the MementoPix collections to show only your content to your schools.

Publisher features: Only active books appear under a school’s listing in the Publisher dashboard. View expired book licenses using a filter to declutter book list. Make schools inactive in the publisher dashboard.

MementoPix is pleased to announce that Memento Yearbook, its online collaborative layout tool, enabled close to 1100 schools to produce top-quality yearbooks in the 2019-2020 season. In Memento Yearbook’s first eleven months of release, over 100 partner companies – including large-volume printers, small publishers, district print shops and school photo studios – have moved rapidly to bring Memento Yearbook to their clients, offering unparalleled layout tools and a virtually support-free experience to their schools.
MementoPix is proud to have provided uninterrupted service during these challenging times, enabling schools across North America to preserve their memories of this extraordinary school year. Memento Yearbook’s intuitive, instant-access, team-managed online tool set allowed teachers, students and parents to continue working on their yearbook regardless of Covid-19 school closures, with support services continuously available to them at all times.
Memento Yearbook’s latest release will include important new features to continue supporting publishers, schools and students during the ongoing Covid-19 crisis. Digitally-published books, digital signing & custom per-book personalization features will be added for the 2020-2021 season, letting the students themselves be the stars of their own yearbook.
“Our approach to yearbook creation is to eliminate the technical challenges of the experience, making it so fun and easy that anyone can design a top-quality book quickly and effortlessly,” said Michael Mondry, President of MementoPix Inc.
Memento Yearbook offers a complete turnkey solution for online yearbook production. Fully compliant with child online privacy protection rules (COPPA), Memento Yearbook enables single designers or teams of any size to work anywhere at any time. Using a robust collection of online tools in a permission-controlled environment, adults and students may work together to collect photos, create pages, proof and approve pages, then send their book securely to printing. Schools may safely sell their yearbooks online with an optional fundraising add-on without previous e-commerce tools or expertise.
The software is designed to self-teach, backed with an extensive support catalogue including articles, videos and free webinar training. Publishers may work in tandem with school administrators, teachers, volunteers and students to produce error-free yearbooks, using features that make even traditionally difficult tasks effortless, such as portrait page design, proofing & review, and photo collection/approval. Yearbook designers may invest as much or as little time they want, designing custom pages from scratch using their own graphic resources or using Memento Yearbook’s catalogue of thematic layouts and embellishment graphics for quick professional results.

Editor: Frames on the canvas nudged into position using the keyboard arrow keys. Zoom and crop enabled on background of a page. Splitter tool added to create rows & columns from a single image frame.

File management: Photos, backgrounds and elements display file names. Photos may be sorted by file name or upload date, ascending or descending order. Search for photos and elements by filename.

Portrait features: Portrait wizard includes ability to sort for a particular group and related sub-groups. Title and Salutation available in batch edit mode. List of groups in portrait page wizard made larger so as to display the entire group category and name. Portrait labels include name formatting options. Portrait page flow and render speed optimised. Portrait page user interface reorganised to be more intuitive. Condense one or more portrait groups to a single page within a section. Side label position may be on edge or gutter (all section or per page). Speed improvements when deleting people in the portrait database. Video tutorials for staff pages and label position. Database auto-refreshed after new import or delete.

Proofing: Bulk reject pages in any state of proofing on a per section basis (section menu) or the entire book (book menu).
*White-labelling options for publishers: *Add redirect for support to your own knowledge base, ticketing and chat services. Add custom branding to emails sent to clients.

We would like to reassure you our partner companies and schools that we are working diligently to ensure your needs are met during the Covid-19 crisis. Our staff is maintaining regular service levels for all MementoPix products, respecting usual business hours from the safety of our homes.
If you own or work for a portrait photography company that has been left without a printing resource due to partner plant closures, do not hesitate to reach out to us – we may be able to assist with referrals to reliable printers to ensure you can meet your clients needs.
As always, we send our best wishes to you, your family and your colleagues at this unprecedented time.

The MementoPix Team

Book Management: Entire sections may be assigned/unassigned to team members.

Editor: Flip image vertically added to image editor. Add empty image frame without adding photos directly to the canvas. Pan, zoom and rotate reset by double-clicking on their handles. Preview your font choices in the editor.
*Layouts: *Layouts and templates conform to page safe guidelines. A large collection of layouts is now available and template collections is growing steadily.

Portrait features: New demo video for portrait pages has been published.

Proofing: Pages approved for printing may be rejected individually or an entire section. Portrait pages approved for printing may be rejected within a section in a single option.
*Online Store: *School storefront order overview shows who has/has not purchased yearbooks yet via you online storefront. School storefronts now available with custom book pricing (Publisher dashboard) and sales tracking (Editors-in-Chief).

Publisher features: Export book order details in one of four formats in three file types with a custom date range. Email send/received/fail status added for books, client info update available for unregistered books.

Memento Yearbook has launched!

Montreal, September 2nd, 2019 – Following a full season of in-school beta testing by teachers, students and yearbook publishing companies, Memento Yearbook is ready to ship!  MementoPix is proud to announce the official release of its newest product for the 2019-2020 yearbook season.

Memento Yearbook offers a complete turnkey solution for online yearbook production. It features a state-of-the-art set of management and design features and an exceptionally robust yet easy-to-learn interface. The application is 100% web-based, and offers advanced school portrait page layout, safe online collaboration, pro-design tools galore, and a complete proofing system designed to catch errors before printing. Memento Yearbook is fully compliant to child online safety laws. It provides instant access to online book sales, so any school may offer their community easy access to purchase yearbooks and related products, with no setup hassles for their yearbook company.

While intuitive by design, Memento Yearbook features a searchable knowledge base, complete with illustrations and video tutorials, and is backed by customer support and online training sessions. Virtually anyone can be an expert yearbook designer with this powerful tool.

“We have worked hard to provide the best experience for our school users, while offering a platform that will let the publishers increase their revenues without worrying about customer care issues,” said Michael Mondry, president of MementoPix.

The first release of Memento Yearbook lays down a solid foundation for the product, with additional features and content scheduled for release in the months to come. To be one of the first to experience this exciting evolution in digital printing services, visit the MementoPix website to schedule a demo.

About MementoPix
The MementoPix staff hails from Montreal’s vibrant visual effects, digital imaging and graphic design industries and other multi-disciplinary backgrounds. Our experienced team is united by our curiosity to learn new things and build better tools collaboratively. Our evolution is driven by our customers and we welcome feedback from all sectors of the industry.

MementoPix is proud to announce the beta release of its newest product, Memento Yearbook.

Memento Yearbook is a state-of-the-art online layout tool created for designers of all levels. All aspects of its design were carefully considered, using the MementoPix team’s 16 year’s of hands-on experience in the yearbook and photo book industries, incorporating feedback from our valued customers. Built for security, teamwork and fun, Memento Yearbook lets you create yearbooks online using any internet connected computer – Windows, Mac, or Chromebook.

The Beta release features thousands of backgrounds and decorations to embellish your page, suitable for all school levels and styles. Drag-and-drop editing with positioning guidelines and an evolving, powerful set of design tools make the layout process a pleasure. Portrait panel pages have never been easier – update info and restyle portrait pages in a few simple clicks. Team-build yearbooks are a breeze – create permission-controlled team logins, assign pages, comment & review work, and track page completion rates to get the job done before deadline. Collect photos safely from your entire school community and keep them organized in easy-to-manage albums. Completed books run through a careful proofing and review process before being submitted to the printers, avoiding delays and costly mistakes.

The application features tool tips, linking to a complete collection of illustrated how-to articles and video snippets. Memento Yearbook includes privacy protection tools to keep your kids safe – it’s compliant to data privacy acts (US, International). You can also trust Memento Yearbook to use the latest Internet security technologies – SSL encryption, secure login and other features to keep schools.

The Beta release of this powerful new yearbook system is currently being deployed to around 100 schools and yearbook companies. The application will be further enhanced during the Beta period, with new features being rolled out in the months to come. The application will be ready for its full production release in time for the 2019-2020 school season.

About MementoPix
The MementoPix staff hails from Montreal’s vibrant visual effects, digital imaging and graphic design industries and other multi-disciplinary backgrounds. Our experienced team is united by our curiosity to learn new things and build better tools collaboratively. Our evolution is driven by our customers and we welcome feedback from all sectors of the industry.