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12/03/2009 11:43:41 AM · #1 |
I would like to make some calendars for this next year and I have been bumping around looking for a good site to order them from. Either they are extremely generic or horribly priced...so I come to ya'll for your advice.
Thanks guys/gals... |
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12/03/2009 11:50:42 AM · #2 |
| yophoto are very good, but are in the UK so probably not much use to you! I've used several different places and they have always produced the best calendars by far |
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12/03/2009 11:57:19 AM · #3 |
| my family has been really happy with what we've gotten from www.lulu.com. nice prices (like $13 for a standard 11x17), decent quality, pretty quick turnaround, lotsa options (photos in the calendar grid, custom dates, etc). |
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12/03/2009 12:01:21 PM · #4 |
what size do you usually make your pictures to upload...what do you recommend - oh great wise ones...
Message edited by author 2009-12-03 12:01:32. |
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12/03/2009 12:13:53 PM · #5 |
We have been very pleased with the quility we get form Apple printing service using iPhoto or Aperture, for both books and Calendars.
If you don't have a Mac, I am pretty sure the service Apple uses in MyPublisher
//www.mypublisher.com/
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12/03/2009 12:33:17 PM · #6 |
In the past I have used kodakgallery... very easy & quick but very little customization available.
Now I have all of my photos on smugmug. They suggest MyCanvas and I just went in to play with it, since I like doing a calendar for myself every year.
They give you the option of uploading photos from your computer or accessing photos on smugmug, picasa or flicr. So far I am extremely impressed with the customizing available. If you are just looking to do a calendar with one or two pictures for each month and no personalization in the calendar itself, it probably will be a little too complex.
I'm looking forward to playing around with this (although it will likely take me HOURS). |
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12/03/2009 12:36:57 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by Ja-9:
what size do you usually make your pictures to upload...what do you recommend - oh great wise ones... |
I ve got the same question: How do you prepare your shots size, color profile etc? |
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12/03/2009 12:38:43 PM · #8 |
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Message edited by author 2009-12-03 18:23:07. |
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12/03/2009 03:35:10 PM · #9 |
| I spent many hours customizing calendars - different photo themes, different layouts, personalized dates etc. with Shutterfly. The tools are OK - a bit limiting as far as backgrounds in that you can't customize them to match the pictures - you have to go with what that style has for each month (though they do have plain white, which works.) I'd love to tell you how they came out - ordered one of each to proof them in early November. Haven't seen them yet. Reordered. Ordered the main order for family and friends. THEN found out they "may not arrive" at an APO address, and could I give them an alternate address for a reorder? I can reorder the main order, but not until sometime next week to see if maybe they make it. Apparently they use printers throughout the US and some are better than others at mailing to APOs (at least that's all I can figure!) but they apparently also don't control which printer gets those orders. So I'm not altogether pleased with Shutterfly at the moment. |
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12/03/2009 04:29:25 PM · #10 |
This will be my 3rd year giving out calendars as gifts. I've gotten from Kodak & from Mpix. I much prefer Mpix, you have ALOT more options. You can choose from several different layouts, or you can add photos, text, graphics wherever you choose. The picture quality is very good from Mpix, Kodak also has very good quality prints, I just prefer to be able to customize it exactly how I want it. This year & last year I went with the 11x18 so the pictures could be larger, they ran right around $17.50 (I ordered 17), I think they start out around $20 depending on how many you order.
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12/03/2009 06:30:28 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by ikopanas:
Originally posted by Ja-9:
what size do you usually make your pictures to upload...what do you recommend - oh great wise ones... |
I ve got the same question: How do you prepare your shots size, color profile etc? |
the lulu standard calendars are 11x17, which yield 11x7 7/8 images. you can bleed off the sides, but you lose the top and bottom edges for the spiral at the bottom and the nail hole at the top. i upload 11x8 images at 200dpi, processed as i would for a normal lab print.
personally, i never use anyone's templates for anything--books, calendars, cards, whatever. if i'm doing something with multiple images, i'll use photoshop and/or fotofusion to build a single, full-bleed image. that way, i'm not limited by someone else's layouts... |
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