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Making your own calendars, makes a great gift idea for a
wedding, for a birthday, for an anniversary, for a newborn,
or for yourself with photos of your latest vacation,
birthday, anniversary, wedding, reunion or any other theme!
Just include framed photos on your calendarpages. I use a 680x1000 pixels new image in Paintshop to work on, which
fits a A4-size paper.
First you will need to decide what kind of calendar you are
going to create; a month calendar,
a week calendar, or a
birthday calendar?
There is a difference, because for a birthday calendar you only need to have sheets with the numbers 1 to
30/31 on each, with exception of February ofcourse, plus a line to write someone's birthday next to each number.
Hence the name "Birthday Calendar." When creating a monthly calendar, you will need the exact
weekdays to accompany the numbers (unless you only use
numbers and no weekdays.)
And when creating a week calendar, you will need to know
when week 1 begins and ends, followed by every other week
until the end of the year. Obviously, a week calendar is a
lot more work, but once you have created one yourself, you
can then look all year long at your own photos instead of
tucking them away in an album or box!
When you have decided on the tyoe of calendar you're going
to create, you now have to choose how to insert your photos.
You can use the same photoframe for the entire calendar, or
use a different frame for each page. I find it works best
when I first create the calendar part. When I have finished
this part of the calendar, I save each page under the
respective month as jpeg-file on my computer. Then I pull
each page up and decide how much space I have left on my
calendarsheet for inserting my framed photographs. When I
have included the frames plus photos, I then save the
complete page under the same name.
Now you can print your pages directly via Paintshop, or
insert each page (which is saved as a jpeg-file) in a
Word-document. When using Word, you can then insert each
page in the correct order and print it all at once. Or save
the entire document to take it to a printer or copyshop
for high-quality prints.
After printing it, punch 1 or 2 holes at the top of each
page and pull a cord through those holes. Make a knot in it
and make sure it is at the back of the calendar where it
cannot be seen. Then pull the cord up at the front and your
calendar is ready to be hung on the wall.
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