Creating a calendar with your favorite photos
With PhotoImpact, you can create your own personalized calendar with your own pictures.
Let's try creating a 2008 calendar using family photos.
To create a calendar:
1. Open an image and click File: Share - Calendar. The Calendar workspace appears. Images opened in PhotoImpact workspace will automatically be available in the Image Pool gallery of the Calendar dialog box.
2. Click 
to add more images.
3. When the Open File dialog box appears, browse for image(s) that you want to include in your calendar and click Open.
Once you have decided what images to use, you can now start working on your calendar.
4. In the Template tab, select a project template from the project category drop-down menu. Let's pick the template named M01.
6. Set the Start Date by the year and month. In this case, let's select 2008 for Year and Jan for Month.
7. Specify the number of monthly calendars to create. Since we are creating a calendar for the entire year, enter 12 in Number. PhotoImpact will automatically create thumbnails for each month.
8. Click the Customize tab. Each calendar month can be customized. Click a thumbnail of a calendar month below the Preview Window to view it. Let's work on the month of February
9. Change the image in the placeholder by dragging and dropping an image from the gallery. Let's pick the image of the couple.
10. Now, let's change the appearance of the text. Click the text "January" to edit it. Change the font type to Calligraphy and the font size to 124. Select 3D Chisel from the custom drop-down menu.
11. You can add special icons or markers to make your calendar more exciting. Right click on the workspace and a special menu box of icons will appear. Click any image you want and place it on your calendar.
11. Continue doing this with the other 11 months.
TIP: You can also click
to randomly fill the placeholders
with images from the gallery.
12. In the Share
tab, click Save All to save your calendar
as picture files, which can easily be attached to an email. You can also either
print your calendar and start using it, or just
share it with your friends and family!
