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Make it a Wedding Planner, Vacation Planner, School Year Calendar and Organizer
No need to follow the traditional calendar year when you create a personal photo day planner on Lifephoto.com. Begin your year with any important date — or start it a year ahead of an important date. Wedding day planners make wonderful gifts for the bride-to-be! Fill your planner with memorable photos.
- Wedding Day. How cool to give your fiance, daughter or future daughter-in-law a day planner that begins on the wedding day! Or a daily planner for the wedding that begins one year before the wedding!
- Back-to-School Planner. Begin your daily photo planner in July or August and build it around the important dates of the school year. Great gift for teachers. Handy for moms and high school or college students.
- Valentine’s Day. How about giving your sweetheart a custom day planner that begins on Valentine’s Day — with photos of fun times together throughout!
- Birthday. How appropriate to give someone a photo day planner that begins on the date they were born. Show them how important that day was to both of you!
- Anniversary. Even though you’ve been married awhile, give your spouse a photo day planner of your lives together — that begins on the date your were married. How romantic!
A custom day planner is easy and quick to make on lifephoto.com. 
Add notes on special dates, reminders, personal messages of love. Be creative. Have fun. Photo day planners are available in two sizes with 13 to 54 images — you decide. That special person will love it! Great for Christmas gifts, too!
A 12″x18″ photo poster makes a great gift, too!
Have a few terrific photos you’d like to have blown up and framed? 
Maybe for your own wall. Maybe for gifts? It’s easy to do and relatively inexpensive.
Upload Your Pictures to Lifephoto.com
It will only take you a minute or two to upload your photo, select the poster size you want and order. Add a caption if you like as I did in this photo of a Great Blue Heron that I took last year in my backyard. Read my original post about creating this personalized-sized poster.
Add an inexpensive mat that brings out one of the subtle colors in your photo. Then an inexpensive frame and you’ve got a beautiful framed photo.
Start thinking about photos you’d like to see blown up and framed. Then upload them to lifephoto.com for high quality, value and personalized service.
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Lifephoto is celebrating the unveiling of its new Web site design, easy-to-make photo gifts and the added convenience it offers photo customers.
Shop by Celebrations – shop by holidays and special occasions
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Check out the new site — upload your photos and start creating!
Some tips for making a great Recipe Photo Book!
You’ve got the idea that it would be fun to make a recipe book. 
One that’s filled with photos of the finished dishes. Or maybe including photos of the cooking or baking process. Who’s recipes will you use? How will you print and share the finished recipe book? Here are some tips for planning your book and for taking great food photos, as well.
Planning a Recipe Photo Book
Decide on a theme:
- Mom’s Home Cooking
- Grandma’s Famous Cakes
- Cookies That Kids Can Bake
- A Salute to the Great Cooks in My Family
Whatever your theme, be sure you can offer accurate recipes with easy-to-follow directions. Help your readers be successful in making those great dishes! So that means you’ll need to proofread your recipes and then have someone else proof again just to be sure.
Take lots of photos:
Every recipe book is better when it includes photos of the finished dish. Here is a post that will give you some guidelines for taking those photos.
But why not take photos of the cooking process and/or the ingredients the reader will have to assemble before starting? Ree Drummond of The Pioneer Woman does a terrific job of photographing the steps to her recipes. If you make one of her dishes, it is so helpful to have those photos to guide you along the way. Check out her site for examples of how you might do the same thing in your recipe book. By the way, I’ve made some of her recipes and they are always terrific!
Start Making Your Recipe Book Online
Begin by uploading your photos to your own photo folder on Lifephoto.com. If you register, your photo folders and projects remain there for you to return to as often as you wish. So you can make your book as you have time.
If you want your actual recipes to have a special look or design, you might consider putting them into a PhotoShop file and uploading your recipes as .jpegs. Then you can easily place them just like you would a photo. But you do have the option of typing them right on to the photo book page.
Why Plan Next Year’s Photo Calendar Now?
Because you’ll forget about the really fun photos if you don’t save them now! True, isn’t it?
Seems too early to start putting photos together for a 2011 photo calendar or day planner, doesn’t it? Well, I would have thought so until
I realized that some of the most unique photos will long be forgotten by then. So I’ll be on the lookout for great photo memories that I want to have on my next calendar or day planner — and I’ll start a 2011 Calendar Photo Folder on lifephoto.com on which to save them.
Homemade Doughnuts in March
Making homemade doughnuts is a once-every-decade event — if that often. But it’s memorable so I want to make it my March 2011 photo — reminding me of the day I put off everything else to exercise a kitchen tradition handed down from my grandmother to my mother — from me to my children. Oh yes, my husband, some friends and several neighbors all enjoyed these tasty treats — as you have to eat them while they’re warm!
What March photo would you upload for next year’s photo calendar or day planner?
(While I have several doughnut recipes handed down from my mother, I used Ree Drummond’s recipe for this batch — mostly because you can make the dough a day ahead, let it rise in the refrigerator overnight and finish the process the next day. Thanks, Ree. If you don’t know Ree, check out http://thepioneerwoman.com.)
NEXT: Calendar Layout Options – What will my calendar page look like?
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Put photo albums on Twitter, Facebook, Web sites and blogs
Photo sharing is getting faster and easier when Lifephoto, an online photo sharing site and photo gift store, offers a quick pathway to Twitter and Facebook.
Want to post your digital photo album on your blog or Web site? Simply copy and paste the online photo sharing link from your Lifephoto album. Fast. Easy. Free. And your photos remain safely stored in your personal photo folder for as long as you wish — ready to share again via social networking sites, e-mail or as simple photo gifts you make right on the Lifephoto site.
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ImageWraps Canvas Photo Printing
Create an heirloom portrait in minutes from your digital photo on 
lifephoto.com. Make one for your home or to give as a gift to someone special. Your photo image takes on the look of a fine oil painting and actually wraps around the frame — viewable from the sides as well as the front of the frame. Here are a few ideas for photo subjects:
- Family portrait
- Children
- Grandchildren
- Beloved pet
- Once-in-a-lifetime car or motorcycle — a Harley? muscle car? vintage car?
- Family home or farmstead
- Your flowering garden? (Imagine the blossoms wrapping around the frame!)
- Wedding or engagement photo continue reading
Print and Share Holiday Digital Photos Online
Don’t put it off another week — get those holiday photos off your digital camera and into the hands of family and friends!
Lifephoto makes it incredibly easy and ecoomical for you to do that.
Make 2010 an Eco Friendly Photo Year
Lifephoto offers you an eco friendly photo print process that uses recycled paper and provides recyclable prints. 4″x6″ prints are just 10 cents each — and a full half of that (5 cents) is donated to the Feed the Children organization. Using eco friendly prints means you are helping save the planet while you help feed starving children around the world. How cool is that for the New Year!
Lifephoto also offers traditional photo prints and metallic paper prints. A wide range of print sizes is also available.
Don’t wait another minute. Upload your photos, print and share them!
