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!