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Calendar User Guide
Welcome to the London Drugs PhotoLab Home Edition Calendar and Cards Userguide.

Getting Started

Upon launching My Photo Calendars and Cards, you will be offered Five options:
Select the option that fits your need. The next window that opens depends on the selection you make here.

NOTE: If you would like to create cards or calendars quickly and with amazing ease, why not give our new FastTrack  feature a try. See the section on FastTrack further on for more information.

Creating a customized calendar

Upon selecting New Calendar… from the “Open or Create Project” dialog, a template selection screen will come up.
Select the desired template by double-clicking on it or by selecting it and pressing the OK button.

Each calendar starts with a template, though once selected, you can customize almost any visual aspect of the calendar.

The software comes with templates in the following sizes:

After double-clicking (or clicking OK), you will be presented with a calendar customization screen:
Here you can specify a starting month & year, a week start day, as well as the sets of holidays that you would like to have printed on your calendar. Note: You can always come back later and modify any of these selections.

After clicking OK, the calendar main project screen will open with the first month displayed:

Navigation

There are two ways to move from front cover to last calendar month. The fastest way is to use the forward/backward arrows in the Management Control Center located at the upper left-hand corner just under the toolbar.
Clicking the blue right/left arrow buttons will change the calendar page displayed on-screen. You can also use the drop-down arrow to display a list of calendar pages from which to choose. The second way to move from month to month is by using the navigation column located along the left side of the screen. Here you have a thumbnail view of each calendar page. Just click a month and the month will appear on-screen.

Customization


Each of these options allows customization in a variety of ways:

Images – The quickest way to add the digital photos that you would like have appear on your calendar is to simply drag them from your desktop and onto each month. You can also drag them to the Images tab of the navigation column (just below the Management Control Center) to use later (you also have the option of using the Add Image & Add Folder buttons located on the Images tab). And of course, you have the option of using the Menu to add pictures (Personalize & add New Picture…) as well.

Once you have added an image, you can now manipulate it in a variety of ways. First click the image to select it. The Image Management Controls appear:
Using the Image Management Controls (located to the right of the Management Control Center), once you select an image you can:
Graphic Objects: You can add a square/rectangular object to customize your design scheme. Just create or select an existing object and the Objects Management Controls appear:
Selected objects: Text:You can add text to your calendar and customize it in all of the standard ways. Using the Text Management Controls, additional customizations become available. You can:
Cell Contents:Every aspect of the actual calendar grid can be customized: text, images (you can drag an image to any spot on the grid), cell shape – even the grid itself! Click on any text on the calendar grid and the following Cell Management Controls appear:
Events can be added & edited to the day cells by using the Personalize Events menu items or by double-clicking on a day cell. You also have the option of adding clip-art:
That’s really all there is to designing a calendar. If it seems all too complicated don’t worry; this version of My Photo Calendars and Cards includes FastTrack, our new speedy calendar & card creation tool. See the FastTrack section further on for more information.

There are still some things left to discuss, such as what do you do with your calendar after you’ve finished the design process. We’ll get to that, but first we will discuss some basics. Feel free to skip ahead if you come upon information that you already know.

Toolbar and Menu Commands

As with all software applications, My Photo Calendars and Cards has a fairly standard Toolbar and menu arrangement, as well as aspects that are unique to this application. For the sake of brevity, we will discuss in detail only those toolbar buttons items and menus commands that are unique to My Photo Calendars and Cards.

Toolbar Buttons (left to right)

Send to London Drugs: This will send your calendar project to our facilities for professional printing and finishing. When printing at London Drugs, your calendar will be printed on high quality image quality paper. We use the latest in digital printing technology to produce professional quality results. The calendar will be bound and ready for pick up at a London Drugs store within a few days, hassle free!

Menu Commands

File Menu
New...

Edit Menu

Global Font Change: This allows you to change the font, size, color & style of any or all calendar text at once.

Layout: This allows you to re-order the elements on the page (photos, graphic objects, text). The options are: Bring Forward, Bring To front, Send Backward, Send To Back. Grid
Printer Options
This allows you to define the printer resolution so as to improve printing speed, as well as to print large images using lower printer and computer memory.

Personalize Menu

Select Template... : This brings up the template selection screen, on which you have the option to switch from your currently selected calendar template. NOTE: If you decide to switch templates mid-or post-design, please carefully review your calendar to be sure that your design scheme and new template choice are in harmony with each other.

Calendar & Holidays... :The will bring up a screen where you can specify a starting month & year, a week start day, as well as the sets of holidays that you would like to have appear on your printed calendar.

Events...

Insert Month Thumbnail
This allows you to add a thumbnail-size calendar to a previous, current, or next calendar month – or any combination of the three. These can be added to specific months or to all months at one time. You can also resize the month thumbnails, and they can be dragged to any location on the calendar page. Even more modifications are possible using the Month Thumbnail Settings screen (just double-click on the thumbnail to bring it up). Below are the menu items that you will see under Insert Month Thumbnail:
Calendar Lock
Localize
This allows you to set the language of static calendar elements to the language of your choice as long as the language is supported by your computer’s operating system.
Add New Picture...
This brings up an Open File dialog from which you can select an image. Acceptable image file types are: JPEG, TIFF, BMP, PNG, and GIF.

Replace Selected Picture...

Insert Object

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