Building Your 2010 Calendar--July

We've had lots and lots of hummingbirds in our yard this year. Ken spent a half hour one afternoon snapping pictures of the hummingbirds at the feeder on our porch. We have two different hummingbirds on our July calendar page.

It's not too early for you to start your 2010 calendar! Here are a few tips to help make your year-long calendar building experience a good one:

1. Create and label a folder for your calendar pictures. Add pictures you wish to use in your calendar. You can continue to add pictures throughout the year.

2. Reminder: Keep your calendar pictures in a folder and keep the folder in the same place! Each time you open any saved photo project, the software looks for your pictures and expects that they are in the same folder in the same place on your computer. Should you receive a "missing image file" warning in one of your saved projects, check that your picture and picture folder have not been moved to a different location, or deleted altogether!

3. Open the calendar program; drag your calendar folder to the picture tray on the left side of the screen. To add new pictures to your calendar picture tray, open your calendar folder, click and drag the new pictures you wish to add. The example below illustrates how to add new pictures.


Please see our past blog posts on building our 2010 calendar for more tips and ideas. Type 'calendars' in the search bar at the top of the screen from our blog page.

Linkable results will follow.


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Enjoy the rest of your summer! Take lots of pictures! Be thinking about holiday gifts for your friends and family using your digital pictures and Freeze Frame Publishing's FREE downloadable software!

We welcome your comments and suggestions,
Laura

Building Your 2010 Calendar: June

Here it is, our June calendar page. These little guys took up residence in one of our pine trees. The same pine tree that is covered with snow appearing on our January calendar page.
This picture has become a favorite amongst our circle of friends and family. It was taken using our new camera. We were able to capture a series of pictures, but choose this picture for our calendar. We plan on making cards, too, using these pictures.




Keep your cameras handy! Enjoy your summer. Take lots of pictures.

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We welcome your comments and suggestions. If you have taken a picture or pictures that you would like to share with our email list, please send them to me! We will begin posting your pictures this month.

Laura

Building Your 2010 Photo Calendar--May

Summer is finally in full swing!

For the month of May for our family calendar I have chosen a picture of our upper pond. Serene! I added this picture to my calendar picture folder on my desk top, then dragged and dropped it into the picture tray of my saved calendar in the Freeze Frame cards and calendars software. Reminder: Keep your calendar pictures in a folder and keep the folder in the same place! Each time you open any saved photo project, the software looks for your pictures and expects that they are in the same folder in the same place on your computer. Should you receive a "missing image file" warning in one of your saved projects, check that your picture and picture folder have not been moved to a different location, or deleted altogether!

I used only one picture this month. I chose a blue border to accent the little bit of blue sky peeking through all of the trees.

Our family is taking a vacation in August. I plan on building a separate "Vacation" calendar to remember our trip. We have also planted a garden. I have taken pictures of the new sprouts, and will take a few pictures of our "harvest" for use in an upcoming month.

Keep your camera handy. Snap lots of pictures. Enjoy the season!

We invite you to download our FREE software and give it a try as you frame your memories forever. Our software for photo books, cards and calendars is very flexible and easy to use. All of our products are fully customizable from page backgrounds to fonts, templates, page layouts, picture borders and enhancements. Our blog has many tips, ideas, and suggestions to aid you in framing your special memories forever.

If you have slow internet connection, or no internet connection, request a disc and we will send our software to you! You can also sign up to receive our blog posts emailed directly to your in- box! Please visit our web site for more information on all of our products and services.

If we can be of any assistance, please email us at info@freezeframepublishing.com, or me at laura@freezeframepublishing.com

Thank you for visiting our site. We welcome your comments and suggestions.

Laura

Building Your 2010 Photo Calendar--April

Greens. Yellows. Blossoms. Spring is here! For the April page of our 2010 calendar I wanted lots of color! April did not disappoint. After the rains, the colors popped. Our grass went from brown to green seemingly overnight. I took a picture of our grass with my camera in the macro setting. The macro setting on my digital camera allows for really close-up shots while blurring the background. The macro setting on many digital cameras is easy to find. Look for the flower icon. When your camera is turned on, push that button and select which macro mode you'd like to use. You can find many tips from photographers on using your camera's macro setting online.

I chose to use the grass as my background picture this month. I wanted the green to cover the entire page. I dragged the picture to the work space and then clicked the icon to make it full size.


I titled this month, SPRING! and moved the caption box up to the center picture. I changed the font size and color after typing the title and while I was still in the edit mode.


I removed the gray fill from the unused day boxes. I double-clicked in the month area. I selected the Days & Fonts button, as illustrated with arrow 1. I then selected the Empty Cell drop down box, as illustrated by arrow 2. Lastly, I selected None, as illustrated by arrow 3. I clicked OK when I was finished. It is important to note that in making this change, I have changed all empty cells for the entire calendar.

I finished the month by adding a few pictures of buds and blossoms. All of the pictures used for this month have also been placed in the calendar picture folder I have on my desktop. Reminder: Keep your calendar pictures in a folder and keep the folder in the same place! Each time you open any saved photo project, the software looks for your pictures and expects that they are in the same folder in the same place on your computer. Should you receive a "missing image file" warning in one of your saved projects, check that your picture and picture folder have not been moved to a different location, or deleted altogether!

We invite you to download our FREE software and give it a try as you frame your memories forever. Our software for photo books, cards and calendars is very flexible and easy to use. All of our products are fully customizable from page backgrounds to fonts, templates, page layouts, picture borders and enhancements. Our blog has many tips, ideas, and suggestions to aid you in framing your special memories forever.

If you have slow internet connection, or no internet connection, request a disc and we will send our software to you! You can also sign up to receive our blog posts emailed directly to your in- box! Please visit our web site for more information on all of our products and services.

If we can be of any assistance, please email us at info@freezeframepublishing.com, or me at laura@freezeframepublishing.com

Thank you for visiting our site. We welcome your comments and suggestions.

Laura

Custom Calendars for Your Fund Raisers

Are you looking for a new fund raising product? Have you considered selling Customized Photo Calendars?

Customized calendars, using Freeze Frame Publishing's calendar software, may be the perfect solution to meet your group's fund raising goals.

Choose a calendar size. You have four different sizes from which to choose. (Please see our blog post Which Calendar Size to Choose for more information.) Sell advertising. There are several ways to sell advertising: exclusive month sponsorships; shared month sponsorships; day sponsorships, day sponsorships with a note.

Suppose your athletic group wants to raise funds for new uniforms this year. For this scenario we will use the 11" x 17" Centerfold calendar. Team members take 100 orders for their customized calendar. This calendar retails for $18.99. With a 25% group rate discount (See products and pricing page for more information. For orders over 100, please contact us for pricing.) and selling no ads, your group can earn $474.75 towards new uniforms.

Now let's suppose you sell Day Sponsorships for $20. One hundred day sponsorships are sold to parents and local businesses amounting to an additional $2,000 for your team. Perhaps you sell ten Day Sponsorships with a special Note for $25 each. That could generate an additional $250 towards your team uniforms.



Another idea is to sell shared month sponsorships. You determine the number and size of ads to be sold in this manner. Suppose you sell 25 Shared Month Sponsorships at $50 each. That will generate $1250 for your team.


Another idea is to sell Exclusive Month Sponsorships. Suppose you sell five Exclusive Month Sponsorships for $200. That would generate $1,000.

To recap our example:
100 day-sponsors x $ 20 = $2,000
10 day-with-note x $ 25 = $ 250
25 shared-month x $ 50 = $1,250
5 exclusive- month x $200 = $1,000

100 calendars sold (group rate) = $474

Total: $4,974 for your group or organization.

Our software for calendars is very flexible and easy to use. All of our products are fully customizable from backgrounds to fonts, layouts, borders and enhancements. Our blog has many tips, ideas, and suggestions to aid you in framing your special memories forever.

We invite you to download our FREE software! If you have slow internet connection, or no internet connection, request a disc and we will send our software to you! You can also sign up to receive our blog posts emailed directly to your in box! Please visit our web site for more information on all of our products and services.

If you would like more information on how Freeze Frame Publishing can help your group or organization in its fund raising efforts, please contact us. We're ready to help!

Thank you for visiting our site. We welcome your comments and suggestions.

Laura

Which Calendar Size to Choose?

Perhaps you'd like to create a customized Family Calendar, or maybe a customized Fund Raising Calendar, or maybe a customized Business Calendar. What size calendar will best fit your needs? This blog post is dedicated to helping you choose.

Let's get started! Open the cards and calendar program on your desk top. Choose New Calendar at the opening prompt.

You will find four calendar options. The sizes of the calendars are located on the top tool bar of the calendar program. When you click on a calendar tab (as illustrated by the red oval in the picture above) a description of that sized calendar appears at the bottom of the screen. Within each size calendar, there are several templates from which to choose but please remember: Freeze Frame software is customizable. You can change each and every page of your calendar if you choose!

The 11" x 17" centerfold is our most popular calendar. It is priced at $18.99. When hung on a wall, the calendar is 11" x 17". The spiral binding in the center allows for folding to an 8.5" x 11" size. This calendar is more compact for saving while having a large picture area for displaying. This size calendar works very well for fund raisers. There is plenty of area for advertising and sponsorship; it is easy to store and easy deliver to your customers. This calendar allows for full-bleed pictures on either sheet but not over the entire calendar.


Our 11" x 17" full-sheet calendar has the same space for pictures as our center fold calendar but this calendar is printed on a full sheet and does not bend in the center. The spiral binding is at the top. This calendar option allows for one full-bleed picture to cover the entire page area. This size is priced at $27.99.


Our 8.5" by 11" calendar is our most compact calendar. It has a spiral binding at the top. It is the size of a standard sheet of printer paper. This calendar size also allows you to place one full-bleed picture over the entire page area. This size calendar is priced at $14.99.


Our biggest calendar is our 12" x 18" full-sheet calendar. It is spiral bound at the top. This is a popular sized calendar for fund raising also. Like all of our other calendar sizes (except 11" x 17" centerfold), you have the option of placing one full-bleed picture over the entire page area. It is priced at $27.99.

We offer special group rates for quantities of identical products. Please see our products and pricing page for more details. Also, please check our blog for postings on how to customize you calendars. We are building a calendar month-by-month demonstrating different features of our calendar software. If you have any questions, contact us, we're here to help.

Our software for photo books, cards and calendars is very flexible and easy to use. All of our products are fully customizable from page backgrounds to fonts, templates, page layouts, picture borders and enhancements. Our blog has many tips, ideas, and suggestions to aid you in framing your special memories forever.

We invite you to download our FREE software! If you have slow internet connection, or no internet connection, request a disc and we will send our software to you! You can also sign up to receive our blog posts emailed directly to your in box! Please visit our web site for more information on all of our products and services.

Thank you for visiting our site. We welcome your comments and suggestions.

Laura

Building Your 2010 Photo Calendar--March

March is wrapping up and April is waiting to bloom! As people living in snowy climes can attest: Fall brown looks very different than Spring brown. Spring brown holds the promise of green!

Let's load some pictures into our saved calendar file and start building our March page. The easiest way to load new pictures is to first put your new pictures into your calender picture folder. I keep my calendar picture folder on my desk top. You can also keep your calendar folder in My Pictures if you're using a PC or iPhoto if you're using a Mac.

Once you have your new pictures in your folder, open the cards and calendar program; select open saved file; choose your calendar project. Then open your calendar picture folder. This should open on top of your calendar project as illustrated below. Scroll through your picture folder and select the pictures you wish to add. Simply click, drag, and drop your new picture into the picture tray of your saved calendar project. Reminder: Keep your calendar pictures in a folder and keep the folder in the same place! Each time you open any saved photo project, the software looks for your pictures and expects that they are in the same folder in the same place on your computer. Should you receive a "missing image file" warning in one of your saved projects, check that your picture and picture folder have not been moved to a different location, or deleted altogether!


I wanted to build a collage page for this month. I began by deleting the picture template that was there. I clicked in the template square and then pressed the 'delete' button on my keyboard. I had a clean work area! I then clicked, dragged, and dropped all of the pictures I wanted to use. I could move and re-size the pictures later.


Once I had my pictures sized and placed, I tilted some and rounded the corners on some. I finished by placing a border around each picture. My goal for this month was to capture the new buds and the new green amidst all of the brown.


My March page is now complete. I anxiously await April and the vivid colors it brings.

We invite you to download our FREE software and give it a try as you frame your memories forever. Our software for photo books, cards and calendars is very flexible and easy to use. All of our products are fully customizable from page backgrounds to fonts, templates, page layouts, picture borders and enhancements. Our blog has many tips, ideas, and suggestions to aid you in framing your special memories forever.

If you have slow internet connection, or no internet connection, request a disc and we will send our software to you! You can also sign up to receive our blog posts emailed directly to your in- box! Please visit our web site for more information on all of our products and services. If we can be of any assistance, please email us at info@freezeframepublishing.com, or me at laura@freezeframepublishing.com

Thank you for visiting our site. We welcome your comments and suggestions.

Awaiting Spring in Michigan,

Laura

Building Your 2010 Photo Calendar --February

Time to build your February page of your 2010 calendar!

For us, February marks the annual Dam-to-Dam Ice Fishing Tournament. Our community of Croton sponsors a fund raising event that benefits Big Brothers Big Sisters of Newaygo County. We have written about this community event before in previous blog posts. I have decided to use pictures from this year's event on the February page for our 2010 family calendar.


For this month I have chosen a picture of Croton Dam taken on February 14, 2009 as the main calendar picture. That was the day on which the ice fishng tournament took place. The smaller inset pictures were also taken on that day. I used a brick-colored border to coincide with the brick color of the dam.

This month I also used a picture as the background for the entire page.


To have a full page background in your own calendar, choose a picture to use. Click and drag the picture to your work space. Click the icon noted above and your picture will expand to fill the entire page area. You can fade back your background picture by sliding the button noted above. February is now finished and ready for me when I build the March page.

Our cards and calendar software program is very flexible and easy to use. We hope our "gentle" reminders to build your 2010 family calendar month-by-month will be helpful to you as you freeze time and frame your family calendar memories forever!

We invite you to download our free software! If you have slow internet connection, or no internet connection, request a disc and we'll send our software CD to you! You can also sign up to receive our blog posts emailed directly to your in box. Please visit our web site for more information on all of our products and services.

Do you have an idea or suggestion you would like to share? We'd love to hear from you. We welcome your comments and suggestions.

Thank you for visiting,

Laura

Building Your 2010 Photo Calendar --January

One of our new blog series this year will be Building Your Photo Calendar Month by Month. It may be easier to build next year's calendar month by month, instead of waiting until December and frantically searching for pictures highlighting the year! One post a month will be devoted to building my own family calendar. January has just ended. Most of the pictures I've taken this year are still on my camera and the current January calendar page is still handy. It was easy to find "January pictures" and I can easily add January '09 dates to my January '10 calendar.

I have chosen three pictures that capture the snowy winter we've had. Freeze Frame Publishing is located in West Michigan. We've had an extremely cold and snowy season. I didn't have to go far to take these pictures. The pine trees are in my front yard; the weathered fence surrounds a dilapidated cabin on a little lake a mile from my house. My calendar project is saved on my computer; it'll be there next month when I build February.

One month finished...11 more to go!

Our calendar program is easy to customize to fit your style. Our calendars come in a variety of sizes: 12 x 18 top-bound; 11 x 17 top-bound; 11 x 17 center-bound; and 8.5 x 11 top-bound. You are able to add text, graphics and pictures throughout.

Please visit our web site for more information on our products. You can download our free software and start building your own 2010 calendar!

Thank you for visiting our site. We hope we can help you freeze time and frame your calendar memories forever!

We welcome your comments and suggestions.

Laura