Hey I am wanting to put together a calendar consisting of the landscape shots I've taken this last year for the family and some Facebook friends. I would like to make the calendar myself and am wondering if anyone has any suggestions on how to go about doing this. I would like some info on what printer, type of paper, program ext, and or ideas if anyone would want to suggest or recommend. Thanks.
Daniel,
I'm not sure if I'd want to make it myself. Any good photo printer could obviously handle it, but putting the pages together, etc might be a bit of a challenge. You could probably manage a one pager with Microsoft Word or a similar product putting a photo on the page with the months below and probably do the same with a 12 pager that has one photo per month - just not sure how you would put it together to make it easily usable...
I know some of the web sites offer them - most have an image per month and some have a single image for the year - just remove each month below the image...I haven't checked, but I expect they probably offer discounts for a quantity order - if not, I'd call them and ask. Worst case they say no and you're back to where you were...Good luck! I'm thinking of doing the same with some shots of the kids for my Mom-In-Law this year and plan to use one of those sites...not sure which yet!
Thanks for your advice I will look into a printer around here getting them done up.
One note I meant to add - make sure whatever printer you decide to use is capable of whatever page size you want the calendar...that will effectively determine the size of the photo(s) you intend to include with the calendar...
Did you manage to produce one Daniel?Thanks for your advice I will look into a printer around here getting them done up.
Not yet Tony but, I found a place that will print them. Its called London Drugs http://photolab.londondrugs.com I had to downloaded their software to make the calendar and send it to them online and the calendar will be printed and delivered in a week to a local store. I haven't decided which photos to insert yet but will have a few made before Christmas.
If anyone wants to see some of my work they can ask to be added to my facebook photo group at: http://facebook.com/...daniel.despins/ I don't have an official webpage but am working on one. Keep in mind I am not a professional but rather like traveling and taking pictures of landscape or scenery I like.
Daniel, just added request to join the facebook group.Not yet Tony but, I found a place that will print them. Its called London Drugs http://photolab.londondrugs.com I had to downloaded their software to make the calendar and send it to them online and the calendar will be printed and delivered in a week to a local store. I haven't decided which photos to insert yet but will have a few made before Christmas.
If anyone wants to see some of my work they can ask to be added to my facebook photo group at: http://facebook.com/...daniel.despins/ I don't have an official webpage but am working on one. Keep in mind I am not a professional but rather like traveling and taking pictures of landscape or scenery I like.
Daniel, just added request to join the facebook group.
My calendar has shipped from Shutterfly - I'll let you know how it looks once its arrived...
I agree nbanjogal. We've ordered some of the soft cover photo books in the past. Not the highest quality, but a good number of options, fairly simple to create and reasonably priced. I had been thinking about doing a calendar of photos for my mother-in-law for Christmas when my wife asked about doing photo books for each of the boys from this year's sports. So, she found the images she wanted and we built a couple of photo books. Grandma always loves pictures of her grandsons, so I created a calendar using some of the same photos and ordered them all together. Calendar has shipped and photo books due to arrive next week...
Grandma loved it! The boys loved their photo books too...Time to start working on one for my younger son that will include all of his high school sports from all 4 years (mostly lacrosse)...I want to get most of it together before the spring season so I can throw in shots from this season and hopefully give it to him for graduation...
I was going to suggest Shutterfly as well. I've used them to get hardcover photo books printed. The quality is decent--not like using WHCC or ProDPI, but definitely acceptable. Other companies I've used for print projects like calendars and books include Snapfish and Picaboo.
And once you've ordered from Shutterfly and the others, they start sending you coupons and discounts for future orders.
I've used Picaboo before and like their quality.
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