Do you want to deliver a daily smile to someone you love courtesy of you and your family? Photo calendar creations can make this happen. These fun-to-create photo gifts can make sure a friendly face or special place helps a loved one welcome in every day of the year.

Creating a photo calendar is not as difficult a task as some might think. Thanks to online photo printing companies, the process is actually a snap. There are a few steps involved in the process, but beyond following them, the work is not only painless, it’s downright fun.

To create a photo calendar that dazzles recipients, follow these steps:

Select the photos – About 12 good photo prints or digital photos will be needed to properly flesh out the calendar. It doesn’t hurt to pick a few extras just to be on the safe side if one doesn’t look right. Select photos that are clear, crisp and well focused. If using photo prints, scan them into digital format for a quick upload process.

Design the calendar – A good photo gifts website that offers everything from photo cards to photo canvas designs will generally provide users with an easy-to-use program. This will walk users through every step necessary to upload photos, place them in a calendar and create the final design. Do double check the final images to make sure photos look right and are clear and crisp. Remember, a photo calendar will generally involve blowing up photo prints, so quality originals are a must.

A photo calendar is a great way to share treasured pictures. By providing daily smiles, these creations let loved ones know just how special they are.

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This coming Father’s Day children everywhere – grown and otherwise – will be looking for gifts to give their dad. For older children that have moved away from home to raise their own families and find themselves logistically separated from their fathers, they often look for gifts that will help keep their father figuratively heart all year round. Photography of all kinds is one of the ways to keep fathers updated on what’s going on in our lives. To that end, consumers look to photo sharing sites to find those Father’s Day gifts that will be sentimental – rather than simply functional in nature.

Through photo sharing sites, those looking for Father’s Day gifts can find such photo gifts as a photo calendar; a way to keep fathers updated on the growth of their grandchildren. By uploading special photography of grandchildren straight from their digital camera, photo sharing site users can arrange such photos into a unique and special photo calendar that will be a Father’s Day gift that will last the entire year.

A photo calendar is not the only offering found through photo sharing sites for this coming Father’s Day. Users can find a variety of photo gifts – everything from photo albums to photo books; unique methods by which to celebrate this special holiday and give Dad a gift that he will truly enjoy.

Best of all, the low overhead of photo sharing sites allows them to pass the savings onto their customers; photo sharing site users will typically find high-quality photo products at a fraction of the price they would find in a retail outlet.

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With Mother’s Day fast approaching, there are a great many husbands and children out there who are simply stumped as to the perfect gift that will honor their mother (and wife). Mothers everywhere often receive a litany of chocolates, flowers, and beautiful hand drawn pictures – all of which are lovingly received and certainly cherished. But this year, armed with the resources provided by the Internet and their subsequent access to a variety of products, many consumers are choosing photo gifts to honor their mothers and wives on this special day.

Photo sharing sites offer access to a variety of affordable, high quality photo products that can easily be created by simply uploading the photos of your choice onto the site. From there, customers can create unique photo books, photo albums, or a variety of photo gifts for their upcoming Mother’s Day celebration – gifts that will be cherished for a lifetime and will freeze this special time in life through the beauty of photographs.

One of the more popular photo gifts available for Mother’s Day is the photo calendar – a special way for mom to enjoy the beautiful photographs chosen for her throughout the year ahead. Children who want to create something special for their mother can – with the help of an adult – upload special photos of themselves, or special family photos – that they can then use to create a unique photo calendar for Mother’s Day; a photo calendar that can be enjoyed for the rest of the year to come. Additionally, grown children, with children of their own, could create a photo calendar for their mother that is filled with pictures of her grandchildren.

Additionally, photo sharing sites are able to offer photo gifts – such as the photo calendar – at affordable prices and with speedy turnaround times. Customers can simply upload those photos they wish to use and create a photo calendar in moments – perfect for this Mother’s Day or as a gift for a loved one at any time of year.

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After the blog comment about “it being hard to find our contact information on our website,” I wanted to follow up with some more information about Photofun so potential new customers (Photofuners) could understand who we are; where we come from and what we do.

We launched www.photofun.com on Saturday March 15, 2008 and are getting a steady stream of visitors, many of whom have signed up (to become “Photofuners”), uploaded photos and have ordered one or more of our outstanding photo-products.

To give you some background about www.photofun.com:

Photofun is a Texas based corporation, with its U.S. headquarters in Dallas, TX.

Photofun started in Hengelo, a mid-size town in The Netherlands, in 2004 and has grown to become one of the leading photo-sharing services in Europe. Photofun does business in The Netherlands as Webprint C.V. (www.webprint.nl) and as Photofun, Inc., (www.photofun.com) in the USA. For ease I will call both companies Photofun when referring to our company.

Due to our success and the quality of our product we now have millions of customers all over Europe, with thousands of new customers signing up each week.

In November of 2007 the decision was made to enter the U.S. market and now here were are!

I joined Photofun in December to head up the U.S. venture. I have been in senior management leadership positions in the printing industry for over 20 years in the USA, and more recently (for the last five years) have been in the “on-demand and personal variable data digital printing sector.” My personal philosophy when it comes to business is to service the customer to the absolute maximum, to delight them with quality, service and price, and to be a market leader. I believe strongly that the company that I lead should be the leader in the marketplace in every element; creating excitement, and great products at competitive prices. I will do my utmost to create a unique company that will bring all of these elements to you.

For the last three months we have been working hard preparing for the launch of the U.S. website. Photofun is in full control of all production processes; everything we produce is manufactured entirely in-house. We own and write all of the programs that underpin the applications you will use on our site. In fact, at the very instant that you place an order, the product you have created (online), is transferred directly to a production printing device and printed automatically. The core of our business is built around our web-engine; it is due to this direct transfer of files that we are able to offer our ground- breaking low-prices and the reason that the quality of our product is so high.

All of your files are stored electronically on secure servers that are networked across the USA and Europe, using some of the most powerful and fast connectivity available today.

Photofun’s credo is “Quality & Innovation,” so we will constantly strive to bring new and high-quality innovative products and services to our site; we will continue to work hard to remain the technology leader in our field and to bring new products and services to our site for you to use so that you will always enjoy your experience when working with us!

Photofun’s corporate headquarters in the USA is located at: 7616 LBJ Freeway, Suite 540 Dallas, TX 75251.

Should you want to learn more about Photofun you can contact me. My email address is terry@photofun.com or my direct line is 214-473-5021.

I have personally made photo-products on our site (my wife and children love them) and as a fellow Photofuner I am blown away with their quality and value!

I look forward to working for you and sincerely hope that you enjoy your experience on our website… Please have Photofun!

Terry Rayner
President, Photofun, Inc.

One note: The engine for our website drives all of our applications and as we started in The Netherlands the base language used was Netherland’s (also known as Dutch) – we then used a conversion tool to convert the base language to American-English, British-English, French and German (to cover the languages of the countries our customers reside in); due to this, we are currently noticing a few minor language glitches. We are jumping on these glitches and are cleaning then up as we find them… if you see one please send me an email and I will credit your account with an additional 50 FREE 4” x 6” photos.

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As modern consumers we are challenged with walking the line between needs and wants on a daily basis – all with an eye towards our household’s bottom line. It is a difficult challenge to say the least; especially when you consider all of the conveniences afforded to us – some of which provide a much easier way to accomplish those tasks that once cost us so much time and money. But there is such a thing as false economy and those consumers who are attracted by the opportunity to save money by taking on a project themselves often find the reward to come up quite a bit short. The do-it-yourself movement – having put tools in the hands of home renovators, amateur mechanics, and part time interior designers – is one such example where, unless you know for sure that the savings will be worth it, it is very often best left to the professionals.

One industry that has offered consumers a world of time and money-saving options is that of photo printing. After all, there are few among us who do not own a digital camera; and the industry has taken note – offering consumers low prices on photo quality printers. But those who have taken the bait and bought the high-end printer understand better than anyone that their financial investment was far from over. In order to continue to produce high-quality photo prints and the myriad projects that the average consumer wishes to do with their photos, there requires a continued investment in photo quality paper and ink. The result? A staggering .30 to .50 average cost per print!

Such prices are even more out of line when you consider what the average amateur photographer does with their photo prints. Keeping in mind that photos taken are generally used for everything from holiday photo cards to photo albums, it is not difficult to see how the industry is making their money.

Super retailers, understanding this trend – and their customers’ need for fast, inexpensive photo prints – are offering what has been considered rock bottom prices on photo prints; many under .20 cents a print. And online retailers are keeping pace. Some of the most well-known online photo services currently offer their customers rates as low as .10 cents a print.

Photo Fun, however, offers customers the comprehensive, high quality services they have come to expect from online photo services at the lowest prices available - .5 cents a print.

Faced with the expensive materials, the time spent on creating photo prints that are of the quality consumers have come to expect, and the unpredictability of the equipment, consumers are largely abandoning their hopes of creating an efficient at-home photo lab. With photo giants such as Photo Fun offering high-quality, fast printing for everything from photo gifts to photo books – at industry low prices – consumers know they just have to logon to have everything they need shipped straight to their door – at the lowest prices available.

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