Photo Calendar Tips And Resources
What is a photo calendar? Is it simply a calendar with a nice photo plastered on it?
It's way more than that! Like the saying "what is whispered in your ear is often heard a hundred miles off" photography calendars have a powerful effect.
Photographic calendars are a unique expression of your own amazing personality and one-of-a-kindness!
Plus by using digital photos in your calendar, you can easily edit and tweak them, ultimately doing your own photo enhancements.
And if your digital photos don't happen to be perfect...
You can easily make them look better without having to be a Photoshop expert or eat up hours of your time.
Creating A Photo Calendar
Ferrari sitting in someone's driveway
To do any photo enhancements, you'll need to have a photo editor on your computer. After cranking it open, work on the basic things such as cropping photos to take out excess background, or lighten or darken photos if the image needs it.
If you are really skilled with a computer experiment with more serious things like fixing scratches on old film photos, or play around with color matching, etc.
Of course you can also outsource the photo editing if needed.
7 Reasons To Use A Photo Calendar
Glaringly obvious reason: There's lots of terrific photos out there. These photos (and especially the one that you love the best) can make you feel inspired, motivated, pumped, confident, dreamy, enthusiastic and way more.
A nice photograph can trip you off into a distant land or faraway adventure, just by looking at it. Suddenly you're skiing in the Austrian Alps, or sipping a latte in a small Italian village. Or scuba diving through an amazing world of zippy colored fish.
Got to know where you are going
A calendar doesn't look right without a photo! True, right? Add a photo and you get an attractive calendar that is going to look much better on your wall, or wherever you put it!
It's better for your health: Of course it depends what picture you put into your calendar though. Some people will have photos of family, partners and pets. Some guys will have photos of motorbikes, hot cars and nice looking women. Adventurers will have outdoors type photos, and so on.
Others will think highly of you: On occasions, these people will appear at your desk, or in your home and their eyes will travel around the room and finally, come to rest on your photo calendar. Then, just briefly, the whole world will go into cruise mode, and you'll hear these words... "wow, that's nice." Try it.
It's good for branding: And expressing your individuality. Just think about it. In a world of sameness, it's good to be different, right? Please don't tell me you want to be like everyone else. You're unique, so express that uniqueness through your passion.
A photo calendar can help you achieve your dreams. Just put your own 'future' dream (goal) into a calendar and every time you check a date, you'll get a little 'inner reminder' about what you're doing it all for.
Cafepress t-shirt photo
Add Your Own Pictures To The Mix
I was going to write a 10 step guide to creating your own custom photographic calendar and will do so shortly. Meanwhile check out some of the photo product ideas below for inspiration.
My own photographic calendar (in sepia)
Now for something a bit different what about a cool desktop calendar?
Create a one page mini photographic calendar for around $5.00, or splendid 12 page calendars for about $24 here.
