Sherry E
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Thank you, Kaitlin!
I appreciate that you've stuck around and are still here. It seems like people come and go from most TR's, then come back again and then disappear again! Just as I start getting revved up to begin this crazy holiday Trip Report (finally), I am never sure who is still here. I don't always have time to reply to people, but when I do...sometimes they're gone!
DLR Snapfish Photo Calendar Update!!
I wanted to mention that my new April 2012 - March 2013 Snapfish calendar arrived yesterday, as expected. It was raining outside, and the calendar was packed in a flimsy white cardboard envelope that was wet. But the calendar itself was shrink-wrapped in plastic so it was protected.
The majority of the photos I used in this calendar are from DLR trips (some photos I used in my previous calendar; some are newer pictures; and I did use a few photos that I've taken from other locations or around the neighborhood).
Now the "free" calendar that many of us got from Snapfish last year (Michele got one, as did Molly/bumbershoot, deejdigsdis, tksbaskets, Mariezp, Liza/funatdisney, and others I am forgetting) was a larger size than the one I received yesterday. Last year's free calendar was probably 11" x 14" or something? Maybe larger? I can't recall. In any case, it was a good, sturdy, large size - great for displaying those Disneyland/Disney World photos we all love!
This time around, I bought (it was not free) the smaller 8" x 11" size of calendar, which actually fits much better in the location where I want to hang it. Also, I did not get a special Disney calendar this year - I just used one of the regular calendars with the pre-designed Snapfish borders/pages.
Of course, because of the smaller size it's harder to see some of the photos. But it's still spiral-bound (love that!) and made of quality card stock.
BUT...the interesting thing that I noticed is that the quality of the photos is not as good on my smaller calendar as it was on the larger calendar from last year.
I would have expected the opposite result -I would have assumed that the quality of the photos would diminish with a larger size and improve with a smaller size, but in my case it was the other way around.
I remember, for example, Liza mentioning that some of her photos looked grainy in her Snapfish calendar from last year. I did not have that problem - my photos looked great, or at least the way they were supposed to look. But in this 8" x 11" size, I can see all kinds of little marks and grainy spots and things. It's weird.
I was going to do the 'minimalist approach' of just putting one or two or three photos on each page. I can definitely see the appeal in that - it's like displaying your photos in an art gallery or something. It's very clean. It's uncluttered. It's a good way to appreciate each photo on its own merit.
But...if I want to look at my photos in a clean, uncluttered way, I will probably just frame them individually and hang them or set them on a shelf (which I have done with other pictures). I want each page of my calendar to be filled with lots of images - like a collage - lots of things and bright colors to look at all year long! I don't want to only look at just one or two images on a page for an entire month. When I pass by the calendar hanging on the wall, I want to have many things to look at!
So, what I ended up with was sort of a compromise: There may be 14 photos on some pages and only 3 or 4 photos on another page. I alternated between minimalist and cluttered!!
Even though I am not thrilled with the grainy, spotty look of the photos in the smaller version of the calendar (note to self: buy larger size next time around!), and the tiniest photos on the pages are very tiny (you won't be able to see them well), I will still take pictures of the pages and post them here for you all to see...since probably 90% of the photos are from Disneyland trips!
Stay tuned for those...
I appreciate that you've stuck around and are still here. It seems like people come and go from most TR's, then come back again and then disappear again! Just as I start getting revved up to begin this crazy holiday Trip Report (finally), I am never sure who is still here. I don't always have time to reply to people, but when I do...sometimes they're gone!DLR Snapfish Photo Calendar Update!!
I wanted to mention that my new April 2012 - March 2013 Snapfish calendar arrived yesterday, as expected. It was raining outside, and the calendar was packed in a flimsy white cardboard envelope that was wet. But the calendar itself was shrink-wrapped in plastic so it was protected.
The majority of the photos I used in this calendar are from DLR trips (some photos I used in my previous calendar; some are newer pictures; and I did use a few photos that I've taken from other locations or around the neighborhood).
Now the "free" calendar that many of us got from Snapfish last year (Michele got one, as did Molly/bumbershoot, deejdigsdis, tksbaskets, Mariezp, Liza/funatdisney, and others I am forgetting) was a larger size than the one I received yesterday. Last year's free calendar was probably 11" x 14" or something? Maybe larger? I can't recall. In any case, it was a good, sturdy, large size - great for displaying those Disneyland/Disney World photos we all love!
This time around, I bought (it was not free) the smaller 8" x 11" size of calendar, which actually fits much better in the location where I want to hang it. Also, I did not get a special Disney calendar this year - I just used one of the regular calendars with the pre-designed Snapfish borders/pages.
Of course, because of the smaller size it's harder to see some of the photos. But it's still spiral-bound (love that!) and made of quality card stock.
BUT...the interesting thing that I noticed is that the quality of the photos is not as good on my smaller calendar as it was on the larger calendar from last year.
I would have expected the opposite result -I would have assumed that the quality of the photos would diminish with a larger size and improve with a smaller size, but in my case it was the other way around.I remember, for example, Liza mentioning that some of her photos looked grainy in her Snapfish calendar from last year. I did not have that problem - my photos looked great, or at least the way they were supposed to look. But in this 8" x 11" size, I can see all kinds of little marks and grainy spots and things. It's weird.
I was going to do the 'minimalist approach' of just putting one or two or three photos on each page. I can definitely see the appeal in that - it's like displaying your photos in an art gallery or something. It's very clean. It's uncluttered. It's a good way to appreciate each photo on its own merit.
But...if I want to look at my photos in a clean, uncluttered way, I will probably just frame them individually and hang them or set them on a shelf (which I have done with other pictures). I want each page of my calendar to be filled with lots of images - like a collage - lots of things and bright colors to look at all year long! I don't want to only look at just one or two images on a page for an entire month. When I pass by the calendar hanging on the wall, I want to have many things to look at!
So, what I ended up with was sort of a compromise: There may be 14 photos on some pages and only 3 or 4 photos on another page. I alternated between minimalist and cluttered!!
Even though I am not thrilled with the grainy, spotty look of the photos in the smaller version of the calendar (note to self: buy larger size next time around!), and the tiniest photos on the pages are very tiny (you won't be able to see them well), I will still take pictures of the pages and post them here for you all to see...since probably 90% of the photos are from Disneyland trips!
Stay tuned for those...
.... miserably! 
Anyway, please don't let my report keep you from starting yours. I am looking forward to reading yours way more than I am looking forward to writing mine. 
in order to get a layout like I wanted. Oh well, it did turn out nice and it gives me a smile every time I look at it so I guess it's well worth the 20 something bucks I spent. Hope yours makes you smile some too even thought the photo quality was not as good as you had hoped.
And then, after MS Word locked up, my PC locked up and I had to reboot. So I lost all the text that I typed and I still have to go into Photobucket and fix all of the incorrectly rotated photos. Arrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhh!
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Not only are the wheels in my mind already spinning with the possibilities of my next holiday trip and how I could possibly pull that together - I'm not sure about that yet - but I also feel like getting back there sooner than that. Sooner than Halloween. Sooner than Fall. I would like to go back to DLR when Cars Land and Buena Vista Street open, just to be part of the excitement. I would like to go back to DLR around Easter. I'd like to go back to DLR while the Mardi Gras stuff is still happening, which is not for much longer.
