May 10

I am finishing up a History of Photography photo calendar for 2009 that includes my own photos for each month, cover photo, and instead of the usual holidays (Christmas, Thanksgiving, etc), am including famous dates in photographic history (i.e., first dagguerotype, first polaroid picture, first SLR, etc. I create and then print about 25 copies of them as marketing tools to show perspective publishers. What would be an easy, good quality program to use. There’s dozens of websites and dozens of software programs, and each one claims to be the best and cheapest. Any suggestions for software or online service for what I’m trying to do? Or would it be easier to just print up one, and go to a local printer? Thanks.
I mean I want to CREATE and then PRINT…
I am trying to find either a stand alone software program upon which I can layout the basic calendar, print it out on my own epson printer, then have a professional printer do a batch of 25 from the original, or find an online service like that has calendar templates that you compose while you are online, then have them print out 25 bound copies–.
Mar 29

I scanned loads of very old pictures (most colloured pics) and would like to work on the images, improve them, etc. What is the best software for that in your opinion? Is there an alternative to photoshop?