Making a stellar senior yearbook ad can feel like a pop quiz in creativity. A senior page should reflect the student’s personality and document who they are at this exciting time in their life. Since it’s going to be immortalized in the yearbook, it also needs to look good and we can help you make a legendary one!
Whether you’re designing senior yearbook ads to surprise your fave senior or you’re a graduate-to-be who’s DIY-ing your own page, PicMonkey has plenty of tools and inspiration to help you craft a polished, personalized look. Let's take a look at what you'll need to start, some all-star design ideas, and how to easily create your ad in PicMonkey.
Before we get started, we've got some things to clarify. While some might think senior yearbook ads are self-explanatory, it probably helps to ask, what, exactly, are we advertising here?
By definition, senior yearbook ads are paid tributes by parents (or students) to commemorate a student's hard work and accomplishments. When it comes to compiling senior yearbook page ideas, we've got a hot tip to help you strategize.
In a sea of other parents looking to get creative, we know senior ad ideas can be overwhelming. So, consider focusing on either the student's high school journey (the past) or where they're headed (the future). With limited space to throw in photos, text, and pops of color, it helps to have a clear focus.
While you consider your direction, you'll also want to pick a tone. Yes, graduation's a celebratory moment, but it can also be very emotional. The good news? Having tons of emotions gives you tons of options.
As students and parents reflect on this unique high school journey, knowing how you feel can steer the ship accordingly.
For all you funny folk looking to make light of the moment, consider these phrases:
While parents may write the senior yearbook ad, feel free to include pets, siblings, grandparents, and whoever else resonates! Graduation celebrates accomplishment, yes, but it's also a love-filled day. The more, the merrier!
For those ready to reflect on this incredible four-year journey, sentimental messages are always welcome.
Okay, where are the tissues? In the event you need something in between these two, you can never fail with a quote, lyric, passage, or inspirational phrase to guide you. Consider your child's interests and work from there.
Before you put the pedal to the metal — or, ya know, the cursor to the canvas — round up a couple things. Having everything at the ready makes designing a lot easier.
Now let's peep a few stylistic choices you can make.
There are at least 5,698,907 different design possibilities for your senior ad when you create one in the collage style. Use PicMonkey's Collage tool to make a gridded collage by choosing a layout, and then filling the cells with photos, and adding text or graphics.
Or get started with a template. Browse our graduation card templates or grad announcement templates for quick designs!
This senior ad design is good as gold, with a trio of black and white pics offsetting one in-color image. Showing older pics, from childhood for instance, looks great in black and white accompanied by a modern pic of your grad in color.
Try a trio of photos for a senior yearbook ad that is triple the fun. Try three different angles from the same photo shoot, or show your grad growing up at three different stages in their life.
This design is all about one great pic and a simple text caption because sometimes less is more. Play with fonts (we have nearly 400!) to achieve the look you want, and consider pairing two fonts together for a visually interesting look.
Photos and text are nice, but sometimes you want to go that extra mile with a cool design graphic or two. The layered scrapbook look is popular on Instagram, and you can get the same aesthetic in your senior yearbook page with graphics like these from our Illustrated Plants collection, and the Scrapbooky Tape collection.
Shapes are another big senior page design trend. To add some to your masterpiece, check out our Geometric Shapes graphics. Easily customize to them for the look you want.
When it comes to colors, try to stick to a palette of up to three. Too many, and your design may not look as polished.
Congrats, you passed! We're fully confident you have all the tools and ideas you need to rock out your best senior yearbook page ideas. Here's how to do it in four quick steps.
Take a peek at this article, How to Make a High Resolution Image for Print, so that you can hand off a high-quality image to the yearbook committee. When downloading your file from PicMonkey to your computer, keep in mind that PNG files are better quality than JPG files, so if you can use this format, do it.
See, your kid's not the only one learning. Pat yourselves on the back, too. You're officially graduates of PicMonkey's senior yearbook ad course. Now go celebrate!
