Personalized photo calendars make a great bonding activity for seniors and their grandkids. It can also be the perfect gift to give your elderly loved-one this coming holiday season. Personalized gifts like this are both delightful and inexpensive. They are sure to touch your loved-one’s heart! What more if one will be able to see cherished pictures of their families and friends all year-round? All the more better right?

Starting a personalized photo calendar project is easy, especially if you have a computer—better if you have an internet access since some of the best softwares for this can be downloaded for free over the internet. In doing so, you can save time and energy while producing quality results thus avoiding the “hit and miss” part of doing it manually. If both are out of the question, then you can still make your own personalized photo calendars the old school way—cutting and pasting, that is.

·    Scour for family photos that might be hidden in nooks and crannies of your house. If you intend to give this calendar to someone specific such as your grandmother or grandfather, make sure that you include pictures of those closest to their hearts and not of someone they barely know. Have them scanned if you will be using a computer for this. You can also use artworks and medals which they might have missed attending. One idea that could work is aligning the photos to correspond with a certain month. For example, your birthday is in May so put your picture in that month complete with inscriptions of the exact date.
·    Digital photos should be prepared prior to fitting them in your personalized calendar. When doing this, you will need an image enhancer such as Adobe Photoshop or even the one that comes with your computer setup. With them, you can rotate, enhance, crop and resize your photos.
·    Like stated earlier, there are software programs you can use to help you with your photo calendar ventures. They are easier to use since most of them will only require a user to upload photos then drag-drop them to your heart’s desire. For first time users, take advantage of free templates available for you to use.
·    The idea behind customized photo calendars is to make it as personalized as can be. Experiment with fonts, colors and layouts to help “personality” to come out. You can never go wrong with this so never hesitate. Get your creative juices flowing now. Don’t forget to hit that preview button before printing so you know what it looks like. Also, saving your work in a disc or USB can help you retrieve your original work in case something goes wrong.
·    If you are in doubt about printing your work, you can always bring it to photo shops to have it printed for you. It may cost you a little over your projected budget but it saves you a lot of trouble since printing a double sided page can be disorienting at times.
·    Some photo shops also do binding jobs. If yours do, then have it bound there as well or you can take it some place else for binding.