subject: Designing Fundraising Calendars With Free Tools [print this page] Do not worry too much about the cost of fundraising calendars. I am going to teach you here how to develop calendar layouts all with free tools. You will not need to hire an expert layout artist or buy expensive design applications again. With the tips below, your whole design process will be free. You will only need your imagination and of course your own elbow grease to design your fundraising calendars yourself with no monetary cost at all.
Getting free design software Design software can be expensive these days. If you are an expert or if you are dreaming to be a professional it is a good investment to buy professional desktop publishing applications for your work. However, if you are just gunning to create some simple fundraising calendars, you can try to use some free design software instead to reduce your overhead costs.
The target, if you want to look for free design applications for custom calendars are open source tools. The best things I recommend are Open Office and Gimp. Both of these are free to download and you can easily use them to create a custom calendar. Open Office Writer and Open Office Draw can easily help you develop great calendar layouts with its wizards and typical text and image interface. GIMP on the other hand can help you design precisely customized color calendars just like Photoshop would do. So you do not really need to pay for expensive software if you do not need to.
Getting great looking royalty free images Now, if you do not want to pay for the images that you will put into your calendars, you can use the Internet to get free images. There are a ton of free image sites out there that offer royalty free images that are available for commercial use. Sites like Flickr.com and Open Photo are just some great examples where you can find free images. Just look for creative commons licenses and other similar free licenses to make sure that you can really use those free images for sale without any legal complications.
Getting free font styles Just like images, you can also get free font styles through the Internet. You will probably want to use new kinds of fonts in your color calendars to make them look more unique and attractive of course. So just go for a search of free fonts over the Internet and you should get hundreds of sites that offer thousands of free font styles. There is really little effort needed to get those free fonts.
Getting free calendar templates Calendar templates are a designers friend when it comes to printing custom calendars. They can help you design a great color calendar quickly and of course, they guide you in creating those calendars properly with the correct properties. You can get these templates for free from calendar printing company websites. Just look for them through a search engine.
Getting free feedback Finally, one very crucial element is feedback, and it is easy enough to illicit feedback for free. You do not have to spend on a survey or even a simple focus group discussion. You can just easily share your designs with friends and family today with social networking sites and get their opinion for free. This will help you widen your perspective about your design, letting you improve it whenever needed.
Great! Now you know how to design calendars all for free. This can really help big time with the budget for your fundraising calendars. Congratulations!
