Put your Photos in the picture!

Frame your favourite Photo of you and your mum and create the perfect Mother's Day gift that lasts all year!



Want funky images? Adding a simple boarder to your photo can quickly turn a standard picture into a modern masterpiece and with so many frames to choose from your sure to find the perfect one. Here my favourite sites for frame, they look perfect on all our personalised calendars, dairies and notebooks! The perfect Gift for your mum this Mother’s Day!

Add a traditional frame or a funky flower frame, perfect for framing your favourite photo of you and your mum!

There are loads of different frames to try, take a look at www.picnik.com

Use Photo Collage to create the perfect Photo Gift

So what if you’ve got loads of photos? You want to create a montage on each month of your favourite Photos - Maybe it’s a wedding or a holiday or just lots of family photos? Fotoflexer.com allows you to create collages of your photos which you can simply save out and then upload to your calendar. These photo collages work best on our Large Photo Calendars as there is more space for the photo, but if you want to include two photos on one month then all our photo products work really well, even our photo Notebooks!

Use the basic tab to create your collage. Choose the number of photos that you want to include and the upload them. You can amend the space of the collage and change the spacing between the photos by using the slide rule to the left hand side - ‘spacing’. Amend the position of the photo and choose which part you want to 'show'. As you can see I have cropped the image to show the two boys with the ice-creams.

There are lots of formats to try and you can include and as many photos as you want. Perfect for creating a montage of photos for your photos gift.

Top Tip: Make sure that the final collage is the right proportions to fit on your photo calendar, landscape works best on most calendars.

Adding text to your Photos

Capturing a special moment in time and adding them to a calendar with a different photo for every month creates the perfect gift, but what if you want to add a caption? You can simply add text your photos, reminding you when it was taken or you could even add speech bubbles to make the photo more comical. Using Fotoflexer.com allows to simply adding text to your photo to create the perfect addition to your photo gift. Simply upload a photo and then add the text you want, you can see below that they work really well and can be quite amusing!

Choose the font, text style colour of text along with size. Move the text around to best suit your photo, www.picnik.com also allows you add text to your calendar, but allow more complex editing such as fading the text and giving it transparency, which can make your caption more of a feature of the photo. Perhaps combine your text with another effect to create a great unique photo for your photo calendar or diary. The perfect gift for Mum this Mother’s Day!

Little Tweaks make the perfect Pic! Part two – Dark Photos

We used pixlr.com and looked at amending photos simply by changing the Hue, saturation or lightness of the photo in the adjustments tab. This week, what do you do if your photos too dark?

So you’re thinking ‘My Photo’s too dark and I’m no photo editing wiz!’ No problem! ‘Autofix’ quickly sorts the issue. I used fotoflexer.com on this image and although it might still need a little work you can see the change in the photo immediately.

Your photo will automatically be amending to ‘correct’ the lighting. As you can see the previously grey sky is now white and the image is slightly darker.

With one click you can make the smallest changes and create the perfect photo calendar. All our photo calendars and diaries are printed digitally so if you photo are too dark you may be disappointed with the final product so this week’s Top Tip is always make sure your photos are light enough on your computer before uploading

Mums the Word – Photo gifts from £3.99!

With Mother’s Day fast approaching, here at calendarwizard we're thinking of perfect gifts for Mums.

Traditional Mother’s days gifts are great, flowers and chocolates are never turned down, but as we’re battling the new year diet , chocolates aren’t going to help and flowers never seem to last very long. That why this year you should give a gift that ticks all the boxes and is one of a kind, just like your mum!

Photo gifts are becoming popular alternative gifts to those traditionally shop bought presents. They’re thoughtful and beautiful as well as guaranteeing to make your mum smile.

Transforming your photos into stunning photo gifts is an easy way of creating a unique present that your mum will treasure. Collect your favourite photos; those ones taken on holiday or at Christmas – There are always loads on your computer or even grab some from facebook! Upload your photos quickly and easily to calendarwizard and if you’ve chosen a photo notebook or diary, you can even choose a diary cover design. Add holidays and events in the personalised date section of your creation – even add her birthday for that added wow factor! They’ll arrive with 5 working days ready for your expertise wrapping or you can send it straight to your mum!

Create perfect personalised photo gifts Mum will love at Calendarizard! We love the Photo Notebook – It’s perfect for shopping lists, little memos and even doodling while watching Corrie!

You do have to be organised and get ordering before the big day, as each photo calendar, diary and notebook is printed especially for the recipient. But this just shows you’ve made an effort and not a last ditched attempt with petrol station flowers on the way over to hers on Sunday.

Last order dates for delivery before Mothers day is 30^th March – Midnight. We’re helping you save the pennies too. Save 20% off all calendarwizard photo gifts by entering code 260209 at your basket

Little Tweaks make the perfect Pic! Part one Light Photos

Usually your photos are nearly perfect. You just want a little tinkle and tweak and it would be perfect! Often changing the Hue, saturation or lighten of a photo can be all it takes. A small change could make all the difference to your photo gift.

I’ve chosen some stills from our recent Personalised Photo Calendar video and this week I’ll show you one way to quickly tweak your photos. So this is the photo I’ll use this week. So your photo’s a little lighter than you wanted – but don’t worry, simply upload it to pixlr.com

As you can see my photos a little bit light and I want to darken it a little so you can see the colours better. So I upload my photo; select Adjustments and then Hue and Saturation.

By amending the lightness to -10 you can see the difference that it makes to photo. My image is now perfect and ready to use on my Photo Notebook. I simply save the image to my desktop ready to upload and use on my photo notebook at calendarwizard

Calendarwizard's Tuesday Top Tip

Photo gifts are perfect for creating a present that last all year, but what if your photo you want to use isn’t quite right? It’s too light, too dark or just needs a quick touch- up before you upload it to your calendar, dairy or notebook? Here at calendarwizard we’ll post our top tips on how to create the perfect photo by using simply easy photo editing software. The best bit is, that like calendarwizard photo uploading - they‘re all FREE!

I’ll use real photos that are taken from our recent Personalised Photo Calendar video and show you simply ways to improve your photos or create fun pictures that create quirky gifts for friends and family. Top Tip: Try it on your facebook photos.

Next week- Little editing tweaks to create the perfect Pic!