PERSONALIZED PHOTO CALENDARS

Posted on July 8th, 2008 by admin.
Categories: Digital Photography, Scrapbook Articles, Scrapbook Tips, Training.

Title: CREATING PERSONALIZED PHOTO CALENDARS

Author: Valerie Goettsch

About Photo Calendars:

FREE Calendar Photo Page Template Downloads.Photo Calendars are 12-month, wall-hanging calendars that you can create using your own digital photos and captions. [It's like scrapbooking your wall for a year...] As you customize your own photo calendar, you can start the calendar on whatever month and year you wish. Most photo calendars are printed on white heavy-weight glossy card stock that you can write on, and they are spiral-bound in the middle.

[Don't let that stop you though... they can also be printed on standard card stock.  Doing so gives your photo's a textured matt finish look.]

Creating Personalized Photo Calendars:

Most online digital photo printing services, such as Shutterfly (my favorite), Snapfish and Ofoto.com, offer custom photo calendars. The process of creating personalized photo calendars usually involves:

  1. Picking a starting month and year for your calendar
  2. Selecting a page design from a variety of photo calendar templates
  3. Choosing your photos from those you have uploaded to the photo service’s website and selecting which photo you want for a specific month
  4. Writing brief photo captions to accompany each page of your photo calendar (usually optional)
  5. Adding a cover photo for your personalized photo calendar
  6. Placing your photo calendar order with the web site [You can also create your own using FREE  digital scrapbook software.]

Templates for Personalized Photo Calendars:

Most photo printing services like Shutterfly and Snapfish offer a selection of photo calendar templates to choose from. There are also several software programs [Even FREE Digital Scrapbook Software] that include free photo calendar templates. FotoFinish offers several photo calendar templates with its FotoFinish Suite software version, and you can download a variety of additional free photo calendar templates from its website. Adobe Photoshop Album and Jasc Paint Shop [Now Corel PSP] Photo Album 5 Deluxe also feature photo calendar templates.

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Printing Photo Calendars:

If you design your custom photo calendar using an online photo service, to print it simply add your photo calendar to your online shopping account and check out. You’ll have your printed photo calendar in a few days. The average cost is about $25 per calendar. If you are using your own [FREE] software to create your photo calendar, you can print your calendar pages using your own color printer and have your pages spiral bound into a calendar at a local copy store.  [They also sell spiral calendar blank page kits]

[Personally, I just use a thumb tack to hold them on the wall or cork board.]

Customized Photo Calendars Make Great Gifts:

Custom photo calendars make terrific gifts, whether for birthdays, Mother’s Day, Fathers Day, Weddings… etc. Got an avid golfer in the family?  What about custom golf photo calendars featuring photos of your golfer teeing off or putting? Sometimes it is hard to come up with a good gift idea for elderly parents or grandparents. A photo calendar with pictures of your children makes a great gift that grandma and grandpa will enjoy anew each time they turn over a new month. Don’t have kids? What about 12 months of your favorite pet photos or [or photos from the cruise you just took]? The ideas are endless.

About the author:

Valerie Goettsch publishes the digital photography website http://www.digitalphotos101.com featuring reviews of photo editing and album software and digital photo printing services.

[Comments] – Added comments by Wes Waddell.

Happy Scrappin’

Kathy and Wes

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7 comments.

Lisa Altang

Trackback on August 21st, 2008.

Kathy and Wes…

Just had to send you a BIG THANK YOU!

The childrens cookbook turned out wonderful and the grandkids and I have had a ball creating the fun recipe dishes. Best of all, we did use the journaling pages for each recipe and have recorded our thoughts and memories on them. This really is a treasure of a lifetime that I know they’ll be passing down to their own children one day.

I’m so glad I found your http://www.Cookbook4Kids.com website.

You’re definitely on my Christmas Card list for life!

Lisa Altang

(Grammy Tang)

ideastoscrap

Comment on August 21st, 2008.

I love the idea of personalized photo calendars. i recently made one for my grandmother and put her kids’ pictures on their birthday month. She was very touch, expecially since three of her children have passed away. These are sentimental keepers!

Keep up the good work. On my scrapbook site, http://www.ideastoscrap.com, I refer people to your site!

Great Job!!
Melisa Ralston

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Thanks Wes, You can tell by my letter that I”m just learning computer but Praise the Lord and with prayer I got it right and thank you so much for your quick answer back to me. I copyed one of the Christmas stationery to put a note to the church members in their card. Again thanks and Merry Christmas – Robbie

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