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!

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

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It's easy to create your own photo calendar at www.calendarwizard.co.uk

Photo Academic diary - The personalised addition to going ‘back to school’

With the start of new school get organised with the new photo academic diary from www.calendarwizard.co.uk, which includes your favourite photos as well as essential dates such as term times, holidays, exams and birthdays in a stylish diary. This trendy academic diary in a week to view format is perfect for busy students, parents and teachers. Simply upload your favourite photos, add your name and choose from a range of funky cover designs, then add those essential dates.

Our photo note books are the perfect accompaniment for your photo diary and great for quick notes and doodling. Simply drag and drop your favourite photo from your diary onto your photo notebook, choose from a range of trendy cover designs, and add your name. Your notebook and dairy will be printed and dispatched within 5 days.

Create your photo academic diary and photo notebook at www.calendarwizard.co.uk

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Where did I put my photos?

We had two computer crashes last week, one was a mother board failure on my wife’s Sony laptop - write off! The other was an ongoing Microsoft lock up- never sure whether this is really hardware or software.

Anyway the outcome is a need to move our family photo folders. I don’t know if we are unusual but we’ve ended up with duplicate folders and have never cleaned up the original folders to remove the rubbish pictures. So the task gets ever more complicated. You might think that being in the photo calendar and diary business that everything would be slick in the Adey household, well its not and the problem seems to be getting worse. I’m sure there is some clever software out there to compare and manage our photos but I’ve never managed to use it effectively and every time we get a new smart phone or digital camera then someone loads some more useless photo management software.


I console myself that I can’t be unique and others even less technical must find photo storage to be hell. I’m not about to provide an answer but I hope one day to have one of those Eureka moments like the first time I used Google. So someone will make a lot of money in the next few years sorting out all this photo storage.

Facebook is great and I look at more photos from my family and friends than I do anywhere else, but the images are low resolution and are no answer to my storage problem. Or maybe this is the answer and that we don’t really all need to keep high resolution images? It seems counter to the present strategy of camera manufacturers which is to create ever high resolution images and it’s only getting worse with high resolution video content. I know all you Apple types use iPhoto but I’m not about to change platforms and I don’t think the bulk of the population will.

It will be interesting to watch the impact of the iPad and iPhone 4 on the photo market, my experience is that dominant standards do occur in maturing markets but we still have some way to go on this one. It’s particularly relevant to my company www.calendarwizard.co.uk as we rely on everyone’s personal photos not being captured on massive and remote servers.

So back to the scrapped laptop and the desktop at the menders. I will continue to struggle by moving ever bigger and duplicated folders between computers. I have considered some network attached storage but it all seems too complicated and I’ve just realised that I actually see most of the family photos on a screen saver when duplication doesn’t matter. Let’s all hope Moore’s law continues to work and I can afford the storage.

Transform your magical Wedding moments into beauiful gifts

Photos are a great way to capture the magic of a wedding. Transform Wedding day photos into beautiful wedding favours for bridesmaids – creating the perfect memento of the special day.

Personalise a Photo Notebook by uploading your photo, choosing from a range of beautiful cover designs and adding the bridesmaids name. Each gift can be uniquely personalised for each guest, creating a truly unique Wedding gift.

Turn your big day into an event every month! Calendarwizard’s Personalised Photo Calendars create a great memento of the big wedding day that last throughout the year. Each month is personalised with a wedding photo and there’s even an option to include special personalised dates such as birthdays and first anniversary!

Photo Wedding Gifts www.calendarwizard.co.uk