Yearbooks matter; they tell a story and capture a unique moment in time.

A yearbook says so much about your school. More than just a collection of your students’ pictures, it chronicles their interests, potential and achievements.

Lifetouch Yearbooks eases and elevates your school’s yearbook program from initial brainstorming, through design, to final approval and publication.

Shutterfly Share Sites

Shutterfly Share Sites is a free, private photo-sharing tool offered exclusively on Shutterfly.com. Because Lifetouch is part of the Shutterfly famly, Share Sites syncs with the Lifetouch Yearbook Website providing you an ideal, safe image gathering option.

• • Private, group sharing made easy.
  • Keep school community connected in one, organized place.
  • Complimentary for schools that partner with Lifetouch.
  • Can be accessible by invite only ensuring optimal security.
  • Accessible via desktop or the mobile app, making sharing on the go easier!

Yearbook Website

The Lifetouch yearbook website simplifies the online yearbook building process making it more intuitive and enjoyable for both brand-new or highly-advanced advisers and teams to design yearbooks. The website features advanced book-building capabilities to streamline the way you organize, plan and design yearbooks.

• • Page Builder includes state-of-the-art design tools such as align, distribute spacing, image editing and hundreds more help create award-winning page spreads.
  • Ad Builder provides templates for parents and businesses to easily create ads that integrate with the Yearbook Website.
  • School Portrait Flow automatically imports Lifetouch school pictures to your Yearbook Website. With the click of a button, images are added to your yearbook pages to streamline yearbook creation.

Website Training

Learning how to use a new website can be intimidating. That’s why we’re working hard to provide easy-to-understand, comprehensive, lessons. With our short training videos, help guides, webinars, and one-on-one support teams, you’ll have no trouble learning – and enjoying – the new site.

Program Support Teams

Yearbook Adviser Support

The Yearbook Adviser Support team provides one-on-one assistance to advisers when help is needed or things go wrong.

Yearbook Adviser Support is available Monday – Friday, 8 AM – 5 PM CST.

• • Contact U.S. Yearbook Adviser Support at  1-800-736-4761 or yearbookadvisersupport@lifetouch.com
  • Contact Canadian Yearbook Adviser Support at  1-866-443-9651 or yearbookcustomercare@lifetouch.ca
    

Customer Care (For Parents/Families)

Families should contact Customer Care if they forgot if they ordered, need their confirmation number, want to create a parent ad, or any other information that the Yearbook Adviser is responsible for communicating. 

Contact Customer Care here: schools.lifetouch.com/contactyearbooks  

Yearbook Account Managers

Lifetouch Yearbook Account Managers love what a Yearbook represents for the school. They’ll help you understand available program options and find a yearbook offering perfect for your school. They’re knowledgeable in all things yearbook, including photography, design and journalism.

Yearbook Program Support

Adviser Resources

Yearbook advisers have a crucial role in leading not only the creation of the yearbook but also leading the class of students. Lifetouch eases the role of the advisers by providing resources and tools to help advisers build, sell and distribute yearbooks.

• • Class curriculum with lesson plans on all things yearbook
  • Yearbook blog filled with ideas and inspiration
  • Monthly e-newsletter to support you throughout the project
  • Workshops led by industry-recognized yearbook experts

Class Curriculum

Class Curriculum is 12 chapters of lessons written for Yearbook Advisers to teach their class.

IGNITE

Get inspired with our annual look book, Ignite. Featuring unique covers, jaw-dropping page designs, and expert journalism tips, Ignite will help you and your staff curate ideas and content.

Creative Offering

Signature Yearbook Themes

Signature yearbook themes are a design package including a yearbook cover, page backgrounds, embellishments, fonts, and colors. Themes serve as a great design starting point. In addition to themes, advisers and staff can incorporate stand-alone backgrounds, embellishments, and layouts to make their yearbook unique.

Lifetouch offers more than 45 unique themes to choose from and, each year, new themes are added that leverage the latest trends in journalism and design.

Yearbook Design Services

Cover and page enhancements such as embossing and debossing, or matte lamination, make your yearbook a real standout. Whether you need creative advice, inspiration, or want a custom-designed yearbook cover, Lifetouch Design Services is available to help make your yearbook vision a reality.

Board of Yearbook Advisers

The Board of Yearbook Advisers is a select group of advisers from across North America that help shape the future of Lifetouch Yearbooks. By providing insight on trends in their schools, sharing what students and schools are interested in, and giving feedback, they help improve the Lifetouch Yearbook program.