Creating A Calendar

City-Exile

Has anyone used Photobox to create a calendar?
I'm thinking of creating one with City pictures, but would like to have good control over image placement & stuff like that. Ideally, I'd have a large image & a small image on each page.
Also, the quality would have to be good (glossy paper, etc.)

Has anyone any advice about creating calendars online?

bovril

Photobox only allows you to have one photo per page in their calendars. No idea of the quality of their calendars. A friend has ordered several of the books from photobox with his photos and they turned out very well.

Eirebear

Surely you could edit the overall image to contain everything you want on a page in whatever editing software you use before uploading?

City-Exile

I went through the process of creating a calendar on photobox & they don't really allow you to be creative.

Calina

I did Photobox calendars last year, one desk, one bigger. The desk calendar, I would say the print quality was not what I would have hoped for. The bigger one was better print quality wise but you're very limited in layout options.

I haven't found any alternatives yet though.

macbro

City-Exile wrote:

Has anyone used Photobox to create a calendar?
I'm thinking of creating one with City pictures, but would like to have good control over image placement & stuff like that. Ideally, I'd have a large image & a small image on each page.
Also, the quality would have to be good (glossy paper, etc.)

Has anyone any advice about creating calendars online?

have never used photobox. what machine are you laying it out on - is it a MAC or PC. I have completed many calendars over the years but always used Mac with Quark Express and Adobe Photoshop. much easier to deal with for text and graphic manipulation. Not much good with PC's

City-Exile

photobox is just a matter of uploading your pictures & applying them to a template. The value is that they print them off & deliver them for you.
I don't have the time to compile a calendar on my PC & then take it to some print house, where I have to negotiate a cost.

Calina

QOOP, via Flickr, might be an option. I don't know what the delivery charges would be like though.

ThOnda

I've bought paper callendars in Lidl and I am going to use scissors and glue. Every single one will be original. Well, both will be originals :-)

City-Exile

Too much time on your hands, ThOnda.

nilhg

I got some calendars last Christmas for family and friends from photobox and I must say they went down a treat. The choices setting it up on photobox are poor enough but the physical quality is good.