Dear Class of 2022 Seniors, Parents, and Guardians;
On behalf of the UCT Yearbook staff, congratulations on completing your junior year. It’s now time to prepare for senior photos and yearbook submissions. The yearbook takes months of planning and requires meeting very rigid, specific deadlines. Meeting these deadlines will ensure you receive a yearbook you love. With that said, here’s the first task: Planning your formal portrait. Even if you don’t plan to buy a yearbook or portraits, you will be pictured in our yearbook either with a formal portrait or with your school ID photo (to be taken this fall in school as always). Formal portraits can be taken by outside vendors or by our preferred option, our official school photographers Prestige Portraits by Lifetouch. Lifetouch is the most affordable option for most students. They are already waiting to hear from you!
Scheduling literature from Prestige will be mailed to the homes of all members of the Class of 2022 with an appointment card for their yearbook pose. (It may already have been mailed to you.) Sittings will take place at Upper Cape Tech during the summer and early in the fall. Seniors who sit for a yearbook pose, which includes a choice of photo packages from Lifetouch Prestige Portraits, will have options for sitting fees and change of outfits and backgrounds. A basic sitting fee at a reasonable cost of 20.00 is available which includes 10-12 poses, indoors and out. This $20.00 is refundable with the return of the proofs if you choose not to buy a package from Lifetouch. However, one of these photos can still be included in the yearbook.
Should you choose another vendor, please share our publishing requirements with them. Photographs must be submitted by the deadline via e-mail by your photographer in compliance with Balfour-Taylor Publishing specifications for the yearbook photo as well as the Upper Cape Tech yearbook photo requirements (all outlined below). Cell phone photos, even in portrait mode, do not always transfer well to the yearbook. Please do not send cell phone photos.
All photos must be submitted to uctyearbook@uppercapetech.org by the deadline of November 1, 2021 in order to guarantee inclusion in the yearbook. We will make every attempt to reach those who do not submit a formal photo; the school ID photo will be used if no formal photo is submitted.
Student Requirements: Yearbook portraits are meant to be of heads and shoulders. Remind your photographer to take a head and shoulders pose. If you submit a full-length photo, it will be cropped to head and shoulders. Senior portraits must reflect our school’s dress code and core values. Therefore none of the following are allowed: Hats and sunglasses, props, tank tops, tube tops, graphic t-shirts, strapless dresses or blouses, bare shoulders, visible tattoos. We also ask that pets, other children, parents or friends are not visible in the photo. Please advise any other photographer of the above rules and requirements for your yearbook pose.
Technical Requirements: Please advise your photographer of the following specifications provided by our publisher, Balfour): Vertical pose, image file format RGB COLOR; image sizes large* 640 x 800 pixels (8 aspect ratio); 300 dpi in the image file header.
In closing, the yearbook is a labor of love for those who make it. We are teachers before advisors, so bear with us. We will do our best so long as our incoming students do their best to meet deadlines and follow these guidelines set forth. Be on the lookout this fall for yearbook ordering information as well as info on how to place a student recognition or business ad in the book. Bios to be placed beneath photos will be written next year in English classes.
We look forward to making this the best yearbook yet! Should you have further questions, contact the yearbook advisors: email to uctyearbook@uppercapetech.org or 508-759-7711 ext 116 after 2:15 PM for assistance.
--UCT Yearbook Advisors
