Another year is coming to an end, which of course means another year is about to begin. Funny how that works. As the new millenia turns one year older, our thoughts turn to the happenings of the past year and wishes for the year to come.

We continue our 2007 photo calendar project by creating the actual calendar. As you’ll recall, we’ve already selected 13 images to be used for each month, plus a cover. Next, we learned about proper image formatting and created the cover image. In this final installment, we’ll upload the images to CafePress and show you how the whole calendar came together.

What do you do when you’ve done all that you could do to set up the perfect shot, only to find out that when you download your images, the colors are just not quite right? Your strawberries don’t appear red, your sky doesn’t reflect the same blue it did when you shot the photo and your skin tones don’t look realistic because your people are too green or washed out. In this edition of our Photoshop Guru series, Mike McHugh and Wayne Rankin help you tweak out your colors.

Our resident craft guru, Marcelle Costanza, has managed to make her husband the star of the family’s holiday cards, year-after-year. To see some of her wonderful creations and learn a little bit about how you might make your own, this is a must-read article.

We continue our 2007 photo calendar project by preparing the images for publication. As you’ll recall from last week’s article, we selected 13 images to be used for each month, plus a cover. In this article, we’ll learn about proper image formatting and create the cover image.

This year, we decided to illustrate the use of print on-demand technology by demonstrating the creation of our first Connected Photographer calendar. In addition to the printing on-demand process, we’ll show you how you can offload the fulfillment process (taking, packing, and shipping orders). To accomplish this, we used CafePress, a service that specializes in one-off production. In this article and the next few, we’ll take you through the process of selecting the images, setting up the online store, and creating the calendar.

We’re very big fans of the new Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 product. There is one complaint, though, we have about Elements. It’s really just a nit, and it’s easy to fix. When you install Elements, the program installs something called the Adobe Photo Downloader. By following these instructions, you can quickly reclaim almost 2MB of your system’s RAM. It’s not a huge amount, but every little bit adds up.

Last week, we ran an interview with Web designer and photographer Kelly Thomas. In that installment, we talked about taking 360 degree real estate photos. In this installment, we continue to talk with the fascinating Kelly, but about how to make money. As topics go, you gotta like that!

Like a hurricane on the horizon (which, fortunately, we’ve managed to avoid this season), Internet Explorer 7 is getting closer and closer. In fact, if reports are to be believed, IE7 is about the make landfall in the next few days — and it’s coming to your PC whether you want it or not. In this important article, we show you how to prevent it from automatically installing.

Why clone when you can heal? The latest version of Photoshop CS includes an awesome tool, the Healing Brush, which is sure to save you time and frustration when you need to make your subjects look their best. In this edition of our Photoshop Guru series, Photoshop guru Kevin Ames helps you look your very best.