I have learned today...

[Tina ☺]

That The Sims 2 screen shots are low resolution in their natural form, and that The Sims 3 screen shots are not.

I am trying to decide the best way to go about printing out and putting together the Desirable Discourses Hotness Calendar that Valpre so awesomely made for us. So, I looked around online at personalized calender maker sites. Every time I put the pics on, there is an exclamation point symbol that warns me that the pics may not be clear when printed! So then I tried, for the heck of it, putting a sims 3 screen shot into the space and it didn't tell me the resolution was low...lol

Ah pooh! lol I have printed the front cover, Mr. January, and the first calender page out on regular paper and, while it may not be the BEST quality, it looks pretty good to me!

But, I am NOT going to take a chance on paying to have some calendars printed out that may be blurry because they are stupid..lol. Therefore, I am on my own. I will get the stuff, print them myself, and figure out a way to bind the pages together to make a nice calendar for those who really want one. I know I sure want one!

Wish me lots of luck, People!

[Nicole]

Huh.... Interesting, I hope it works out!

[Tina ☺]

Oh, I'll make it work out! Thanks, Nicole!

[gldkelly]

And do you need any help? I can make the men? I just finished all Hair downloads for men, so suggest all with pics, and I'll try to make them Hunks!!

Edit: I Would love a hunkie calender!!

OOoo.. Tina, this could be a contest! I need something to do, I'm board!! Tina, and her Hot Calender contest!! Yummy, sounds good to me!

[Tina ☺]

Uh... hello Lynda? Earth to Lynda!

You need to pop in more often, Woman! It's seems you have missed something.... Val's surprise!

desirablediscourses.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=exchangestories&action=display&thread=1549&page=1

The one for this year is already done, except for my printing it out and making it into an actual 2010, tangible calendar. But, there as been a discussion about making it an annual event, so... there's always next year!

Next time we do it, though, we are going to have to take the pics with print screen or something if it is going to involve TS2. Hopefully that will yield us some higher resolution pics.

Whoever wants one of these calendars needs to PM me their mailing addresses.

[joandsarah]

The Sims 2 screen shots are low resolution in their natural form

So can they be changed to un natural form? I don't know what my dh would say if I put that up though.

As to binding, I think the easiest and cheapest is stapled. You need one of the really long staplers like you might find at a library or school. Our current calendar is stapled.

[Tina ☺]

LOL... I can change them from their natural form, but it likely wouldn't help their lousy resolution!

Yeah, the ones that are stapled are usually long pages folder over and stapled in the middle to hold them together... like magazines. I'm afraid staples will not work for this and actually hold it together for a whole year while it hangs on the wall...lol

Ah come on, Jo, what can he possibly have to say about CARTOON men? Heck, my dh gets me a Harley calendar every year with HOT REAL guys on it standing by Harley Davidsons. Surely, your guy wouldn't be too peeved over pixels. I mean, you look at them EVERY DAY in your game anyway... and on sims sites.

[gldkelly]

Well How was I suppose to know?

I do know that if magnes made Star Wars, Dylan would never forget it!! He asks me all the time, Ma, have you typed to magnes? She is so cool to Dylan! ;D

[Tina ☺]

You're supposed to know because you are supposed to follow the link I gave you above. Mae is really cool. It's too bad she's not able to come around as often as she used to do, but hopefully she'll have more time soon. I miss her.

It's awesome thing Val did though! She has started a DD tradition because I definitely want to put one together again next year. ;D

Well folks, it's going on 2:00am here and I am supposed to get up early to take my mom to the doctor. I should have been in bed a couple of hours ago. lol So...

I'm hittin' the hay! I'll catch y'all in a few hours.

[gldkelly]

Love me some Mae, and

Where is Pixx again, did I not offer the right amount of CAKE!? I'm just being silly, must snooze! Love you all, Lynda!!

Oo.. I have a new title? Cool!!!

[Aussie Karima]

TINA, here in OZ, you can buy Ring binding kit's, so I am sure you can get them there! it would make for a longer lasting Calender, & Once bought I think you only have to buy the ring-binding as you run out! & it will look like a real Calender, with Mega Hot Pixels inside!

[Tina ☺]

I've seen those ring-binding kits online in my searches, but the ones I saw all require a machine to do the binding. I looked into that too and the cheapest one was about $75.00. I'd LOVE to have, though, because I always wanted a way to print out my story and make it into a readable book.

Don't you worry. I'm going to make sure to do my best to make sure the calendar can withstand all that oggling page-turning, and will endure on the wall for at least a year.

[joandsarah]

Yeah, the ones that are stapled are usually long pages folder over and stapled in the middle to hold them together... like magazines. I'm afraid staples will not work for this and actually hold it together for a whole year while it hangs on the wall

Well the calendar hanging on my cupboard is stapled and it's held together just fine.

[Tina ☺]

You didn't say if it's a fold-over staple job. I already said above that stapling works with right setup. Magazines are stapled and they hold together just fine, but they are also fold-over pages, so they wouldn't just pull apart. Get what I'm trying to say? lol

This one will NOT be stapled because I don't believe if I did it that way, it will hold together very well. This calendar is going to be a sturdy as I can possibly make it. I don't have professional equipment, special paper, etc in order to make stapling work.

My calendar is also stapled and holds together perfectly, BUT the pages are LARGE and fold and it's stapled in the CENTER. I CAN'T do it that way with mine, or it would be a tiny calendar.

[joandsarah]

I didn't mean use a small stapler, I said like the ones that schools have or buy a long one. And yes I mean like a magazine. Maybe go to some place and get them spiral bound then.