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submitted: Sep 4th 2008 | by: DavidPeters | Total views: 1 | Word Count: 635 | |

Is your collection of family photos just sitting locked away in your computer? Would you like the opportunity to see these photos more often and without the trouble and time it takes to pull them up in your computer? You can have these photos handy at a glance and be useful by turning them into a unique, customized digital photo calendar.

To be realistic, not every photograph is worth a thousand words, but those that are, are priceless. These are the photos that you find yourself wanting to pull out every now and then to remember a special moment or to share with others. You can create a special way to have them available to show off to friends and family.

For an abundance of good reasons, it's great to share our family or 'good times' images with others. In fact, you're naturally inclined to want 'everyone' to see them... But how? And 'what's the best way to do this?'

One very fun and unique way is by creating a simple digital photo calendar. Don't take the words "digital photo calendar" too literally though. In this case we're talking about turning the idea of a regular wall calendar into one-of-a-kind work of art using your own photos.

In other words... a 'photo calendar' which you can then print up, give to your friends or family, hang on your wall, promote across the Internet, sell on your website or photo blog, (or even on eBay), etc...

Let's try out building one of these fun little photo calendars for ourselves.

Here's what you do.

To begin, simply pick out some of your favorite photos to be included in our project. Next involves a little bit of research, but I've done a bit of that to help you save some time and make things easier for you. Here are some places where you can easily transform your digital photos into a photo calendar

Here's a few websites that'll do that for you: www.bighugelabs.com, www.desktopwallpaperphotos.com, www.snapfish.com and www.cafepress.com. (The first two give you a free digital version of your calendar that you can download to your hard drive and then print out or save to a CD/take to a print shop. The others give you nice 'real' wall or desk calendar that you can purchase - and then 'send' to yourself, or a friend).

The only real 'trick' to turning your photos into a calendar is knowing which sites to use. The rest is actually pretty simple. The only other challenge you might face is how to prepare your photos before printing. There are many programs and tutorials that can help you edit your photos for print. If all else fails, should this prove to be a problem in time or effort, get someone to help.

Only a few more simple steps from here...

1) Upload your photo/s to one of the photo calendar web sites above.

2) Select a particular calendar size and other details

3) Settle on a month and a year you want your calendar to have

d) then hit the 'create' button or order your own calendar...

Not too hard is it? Now that you are finished you can enjoy your photo calendar that you can download onto your hard drive as a .PDF, or even a .jpeg image file. If you are printing your calendar through a service, you can expect your finished product in about a week.

In the end, it's not too bad for a few minutes worth of work!

Now you can take your digital photo calendar masterpiece out to impress friends and family. Be creative with it and print it out on a card, e-mail it to everyone, or just hang it on your wall for your own enjoyment. Photo calendars make a great gift and every time someone looks at it they will be reminded of you and be able to share in your special memories.

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