The Photo Calendar ComparisonKategorie: Reise, Urlaub & Freizeit
Artikel veröffentlicht von: Catalina Martinez
The best way to create a calendar with your own photographs
There are three different ways to make your own photo calendar. If you have many photo prints which you prefer to stick onto paper and if you want to add hand drawn images, an old style pre-printed calendar template will still be useful. More versatile and interesting is making photographic calendars through software, and the result looks most professional when printed by a proper photo service. For this you normally have to use the software which the (online) photolab provides (usually) for free, see for example FotoInsight.co.uk
FotoInsight offers wall and desktop calendars. All calendars are printed professionally on 250 gr/m2 paper using Indigo technology (except the Desktop calendar in tin box which is processed on photographic paper) and cost between £4.99 and £16.99 per calendar plus £2.80 delivery (Europa wide, also with seperate delivery address).
Printing-1 is the independent option for photo book calendars for Mac OS and Windows PC users, but no wall calendars. Printing-1 websites includes a kind of photo sharing service, which allows to show the layout to others online prior to a print order. Discount: First order £5 off.
Greenstreet Online Limited is a well established software developer with a long pedigree in graphic software applications. Unlike printing services, Greenstreet charges for its software applications. Calendar pages can be designed in the usual paper formats (up to A4 in landscape or portrait) for inkjet or laser printers. Wizards help with the calendar design. Software download: http://greenstreet-online.com/offers/iitm-calendar/index.htm 25% off - when buying the software enter voucher code "TEST0825".
Hints for your photographic calendar design
No more sticky photo corners
If you want to create a calender with hand drawings or pre-digital photographs simply buy a pre-printed calendar from an office supply to stick the prints in. If your images are digital you will get much more and better results using editing software like "FotoInsight Designer", "Printing-1" or "greenstreet Art&Craft". To make the calendar look professional use only one large photo per page and keep backgrounds in classic white or black.
Templates
All the three calendar options described here offer a variety of templates, so that the area for photos can be maximised or more room can be given for notes on the calendar. Digitally designing a calendar also allows to save and re-use the design as a template. That way the calendar for Granny can easily be changed to make another variant for an Uncle...
Birthdays
Creating calendars with digital images in calendar design software makes it easy to insert passport-type images with birthdays. With image editing programes the exact date can be written onto the image and this can be reused year after year. As the photo calendar applications described here allow to start a calendar any month of the year, this also makes calendars a very personal birthday present.
What is the best way to design a photo calendar?
If you want to design, print and bind the complete calendar in your own home, you will enjoy calendar software like the "Art&Craft Calendars&Diaries" from greenstreet. This also allows to freely choose special papers, even when this may be more expensive in the end. If you want to create a thick photobook calendar with many notes and pictures you should choose Printing-1. By far the best desk top and wall calendars come clearly from some of the online photo services like FotoInsight.
We have run a photo calendar test of the three leading services. Find a summary of the results here: http://www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk/news/article/default.aspx?objid=51027
Veröffentlicht von: Catalina Martinez
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| Catalina Martinez is a mother of two who has lived in Mexico, the USA, Denmark, Sweden and the UK. She frequently writes about photography, digital art and yoga. |
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