A photo calendar does more than help keep track of the year ahead. It gives favorite photos a place in everyday life, turning birthdays, family traditions, vacations, milestones, and ordinary moments into something you’ll see long after they disappear from your camera roll.
Shutterfly’s calendar maker makes it easy to create a personalized calendar that feels completely your own. From the style and photos to the dates, captions, and details that matter most, every part of the design can be customized to reflect your year. Whether it’s hanging in the kitchen, sitting on a desk, or helping keep a busy schedule organized, a custom calendar becomes something you’ll use and enjoy all year long.
Shutterfly Photo Calendar Formats and Sizes
The right calendar format depends on where you want to display it and how you plan to use it. Shutterfly offers options for showing off favorite photos, keeping important dates visible, and staying organized throughout the year, with sizes designed for walls, desks, and smaller spaces.
Wall Calendars (8×11″ and 12×12″)
Wall calendars offer the most room for photos, important dates, and monthly planning. They’re a popular choice for kitchens, home offices, classrooms, and other spaces where schedules stay visible throughout the month. Birthdays, anniversaries, holidays, appointments, and even photos can be built directly into the calendar, turning each month into more than a place to keep track of dates.
Desk Calendars (5×11″)
Desk calendars keep the current month and a favorite photo visible in a compact format designed for desks, counters, and workspaces.
Easel Calendars (5×7″)
Easel calendars feature 12 individual monthly cards displayed on a wooden stand, making them easy to place on a desk, bookshelf, or side table.
Monthly Planners (8×5″)
For plans that need to go beyond the wall or desk, monthly planners provide a portable place to keep the year organized. The cover can be personalized with your own photos and design, while the pages inside keep monthly schedules, appointments, and notes together.
Calendar Magnets (3×3″)
Calendar magnets display a favorite photo alongside a full-year calendar in a compact format for refrigerators, lockers, and other magnetic surfaces.
Calendar Mouse Pads (7.75×9.25″)
Calendar mouse pads pair a favorite photo with a year-at-a-glance calendar, keeping important dates visible throughout the year.
More Than 170 Calendar Design Templates
Creating a beautiful calendar doesn’t mean starting from a blank page. Shutterfly offers more than 170 calendar templates, making it easy to find a design that fits your style and your photos.
The collection includes everything from clean, modern layouts to colorful seasonal designs, elegant florals, bold graphics, and playful themes. Whether you’re highlighting family memories, everyday moments, travel photos, pets, or milestones from the year, there are plenty of designs to explore.
Every template is professionally designed and ready to use, so creating a polished calendar can feel simple from the start. Once you’ve found a design you love, you can personalize it with your own photos, text, and details to make it your own.
Customize Your Photo Calendar
Once you’ve chosen a template, it’s easy to make the design your own. Shutterfly’s calendar maker includes a wide range of customization options, allowing you to personalize everything from the photos themselves to the finishing details that bring each month together.
Photos and Layouts
Every month can be customized around the photos you want to feature. Some pages may showcase a single image, while others make room for a collection of favorite moments. Layouts can be adjusted throughout the calendar, giving you flexibility from month to month.
Text and Captions
Names, captions, quotes, and other custom text can help tell the story behind your photos. Whether you’re marking a special occasion or adding a personal note, text brings more meaning to each page.
Backgrounds and Design Details
Colors, backgrounds, borders, stickers, and embellishments make it easy to personalize the overall look of the calendar. Small design details can help tie the year together or give each month its own personality.
Photo Editing Tools
Photos can be cropped, rotated, repositioned, and enhanced directly within the calendar maker, making it easier to get each page looking the way you want before ordering.
Add Photos and Events to Individual Calendar Dates
For many people, the most meaningful part of a calendar isn’t the photo page. It’s the dates themselves. Shutterfly wall calendars make it possible to personalize the calendar grid with the people, occasions, and milestones that matter most throughout the year.
Birthdays, Anniversaries, and Special Occasions
Important dates can be added directly to the calendar before printing, helping birthdays, anniversaries, holidays, and family milestones stay visible all year long.
Photos on Calendar Dates
In addition to event reminders, photos can be added to individual date squares. A birthday, anniversary, graduation, or other special occasion can include a favorite photo connected to that day.
Saved Event Lists
Recurring events don’t have to be entered from scratch every year. Important dates can be saved and reused in future calendar projects, making it easy to carry birthdays, anniversaries, and traditions forward.
Planning Stickers and Holidays
Public holidays can be included, and optional planning stickers provide even more ways to mark appointments, travel, celebrations, and everyday plans after the calendar arrives.
Start Your Calendar Any Month
A personalized calendar doesn’t have to start in January. Shutterfly wall calendars, desk calendars, and easel calendars can begin on any month while still including a full 12 months.
That flexibility makes it easy to create a calendar that starts with a meaningful moment instead of a calendar year. A school-year calendar can begin in August, a birthday gift can start with the recipient’s birthday month, and a wedding, anniversary, graduation, or new home can become the first chapter of the year ahead.
It also means there’s no need to wait for a new year to begin creating. Whenever you decide to make a calendar, you can start with the month that makes the most sense for you and enjoy a full year from there.
Why Shutterfly Makes the Best Photo Calendars
Shutterfly’s calendar maker combines professionally designed templates, flexible customization, and thoughtful planning features that make it easy to create a calendar you’ll enjoy all year long.
- More than 170 professionally designed calendar templates
- Multiple formats, including wall calendars, desk calendars, easel calendars, and more
- Customizable layouts, text, backgrounds, stickers, and design elements
- Birthdays, anniversaries, holidays, appointments, and photos added directly to calendar dates
- Saved event lists and calendars that can start on any month
- Built-in editing tools and quality checks that help photos look their best
- Selected by Wirecutter as its top pick among popular photo calendar services
