Amazing Custom Photo Calendars

Seen custom photo calendars that you like?

This simple, step by step guide will show you how to make one.

By the time you're done with this page you'll have one or two custom photographic calendars all cooked and ready to send out to friends or mail to someone special.

Ready? Let's go!

Before you create your calendar you need to have some digital photos ready.

Make them at around 200-250 dpi and about 1-4 MB should be OK.

Make sure they look good on your screen, not too dark or bright.

Ok, here's your 10 steps - from thin air to finished product.

Creating Your Photo Calendar

Step 1:

First things first - Click here to sign up free with CafePress (Opens in new window)

Cafepress is a free online marketplace that allows you to create and sell everything from apparel, home and office stuff, music and CDs, books, prints, custom photo calendars, posters and cards... (And more!)

But why use Cafepress?

Cafepress gives you a FREE online shop to promote your products, and...

• Produces items when ordered using print-on-demand
• Handles payment transactions including major credit cards
• Ships your products worldwide
• Manages all returns and exchanges
• Offers customer service via toll-free phone and email
• Sends you a monthly check for your earnings on sales!

Details - Create - Review

Make sure to explore all the options Cafepress offers.

Step 2:

Scroll down and click on 'Prints and Cards.'

Step 3:

Select which product you want to create from the list...

Choice of Cafepress custom photo calendars

You have a choice of photo calendars to create - from vertical, over-sized or small, cute one-page calendars.

Step 4:

Let's select the groovy custom vertical wall calendar as an example.

Click on create it.

And then keep reading...

Step 5:

Adding your images...

Adding your images to Cafepress

Remember I told you at the start you had to have your images ready?

Why use Cafepress?

Yep, you need images for this little funky experiment. After all, you want your calendar to be eye-poppingly gorgeous whenever someone takes a look.

Important Section About Uploading Your Photos

If you haven't added any digital photos yet click on the add a new image link. This will bring you to a find your image screen. Hit the browse button to find the digital photos from your computer.

What type of images to use?

Scroll down and look for the tiny Image Upload FAQ. See that? Hit that with your mouse finger. That'll show you that you want to upload jpg images, and preferably under 4MB and at 200-250 dpi should do the trick.

Upload your best digital photos. Including the ultimate winner you want for the cover.

Step 6:

Now that you've got your images uploaded, you need to ADD an image to your own custom photo calendar product.

Hit the add to product link under any one of your images.

Step 7:

Cafepress calendar paper stock

Here's where you can choose image height, months, etc. Play around with it until you get it right.

Vertical wall calendar example

When you're happy with a specific photo for a specific month, hit next to go to the next month, and so on.

Step 8:

All done? Click Save To Finish Later.

Step 9:

Excellent! You should be at the 'your excellent product has been saved' page. If not, try going through the steps again.

Now the next step gets a little darn weird. You're going to 'buy your own product.'

That's right. Don't worry, investing in your own self is the best investment of all!

See how I'm using the custom wall calendar as an example here? You can still make edits, changes, create a new version of your calendar, or remove it at this point.

Anyhow, let's buy this product.

Step 10:

WELL DONE!

This page is important.

Before you fork over your hard earned gold bullion or silver dollars you want to double check everything is hunky-dory. Especially the photo quality!

Ordering your Cafepress photo calendar

Once you're good to go, hit Add To Cart.

Cool. The virtual shopping cart. There's some shipping costs you'll need to add, and the quantity (1, 2, 3 or more) of calendars you want.

When done, click on Proceed To Checkout. You can expect one (or more) of your custom photo calendars to arrive at your doorstop with speedy delivery in a few days.

The finished calendar will look something like this...

Your Cafepress finished custom photo calendar

 

 

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