calendar design help required!

[stooz]

Im putting together a calendar for charity.
Subject matter motorbikes. I have all the photos I want. all very scenic.
But rather than one dull picture per month, I wanted to insert minature images (I have enough shots for 3 extra per month) or do something that could smarten up the final printout.

Any suggestions or examples you could suggest that would make this calendar a bit special?

I have added some samples to my webshots - see calendar. One large one and 3 closeups that could be used to create the artwork
http://community.webshots.com/user/s2ooz
any cuttng and resizing is fine

any help kindly recieved. Its for "charidee"

Stooz

[anonymous-user]

The CAR calendar I've got does something similar. It's got one large image per month on the top of the page with the calendar grid on the bottom with three smaller images down the side - some being close ups, others being smaller versions of full photographs. In this particular case, each month has all the photographs of the same car, different car each month.

[Mrs Fish]

Are you going to have any text on it at all?

Do you want space that people can write on each day, or just the numbers and dates?

Have you thought about what size you want it?

>> Edited by Mrs Fish on Tuesday 14th September 16:47

[docevi1]

I was bored so I had a bit of fiddle with brightness levels, and intergrated the three pics you had in a different way.

Not to sure on it, but what do you think?

[Mrs Fish]

A very quick few layouts

[chim_girl]

They're excellent...you're far too clever

I like the last one (black background) best.

>> Edited by chim_girl on Tuesday 14th September 18:06

[docevi1]

Ah, I thought we fiddling to make an image which was a fold-out calendar, not a one page jobie.

[Mrs Fish]

I'm not sure exactly what he is looking for TBH

[Bodo]

miniature insert, the Bodo method

[docevi1]

cheat!

[stooz]

WOW! these are great thanks for your efforts, very much appreciated.
Im going for A2 A3 kind of size. small numbers, no space for writing really.

I too like the black one, but Im thinking the printers might be funny on printing costs. I can but try!

[simpo two]

Mrs Fish, I just checked your profile and I was right

[Mrs Fish]

Stooz - having a black background shouldn't alter the printing costs at all, it makes no difference whether you print full colour all over or colour in parts, its the cost of setting up the print run in the first place that takes the money. You could alternate between black and white backgrounds on each month

[Mrs Fish]

Here are a couple more, to A3 size, with alternate background colours for each month.




And one which is slightly different.

[chim_girl]

I need Photoshop tuition.

[anonymous-user]

There's only 24 days in January next year?!

[chim_girl]

LexSport said:

There's only 24 days in January next year?!

Fantastic, hopefully I'll still have some salary left at month end!

[Mrs Fish]

I couldn't be arsed messing around with it any longer, you get the idea

[zetec]

docevi1 said:

I was bored so I had a bit of fiddle with brightness levels, and intergrated the three pics you had in a different way. Not to sure on it, but what do you think?

That is quite spooky, looks like '60s style TV robot has infiltrated the picture!!

[chim_girl]

zetec said:

That is quite spooky, looks like '60s style TV robot has infiltrated the picture!!

as in "Danger Wil Robinson"...?

erm, I think I may be showing my age.