CalFrame Tutorial

Nope!  Not going to give you one;  gonna show you how to make your own, instead.  If I give you one and you loose it, you're stuck!  So lets just learn from scratch.

Step one is to open a 'New' image set to transparent, width 640 by height 480.  This is not for the calendar, but for the calendar dates template.

Step two is to flood fill the image with white and then set the foreground color to black.

Step three is to use the 'Layers' menu and add a new layer - name it 'calframe'.

Step 4:  Under the 'File' menu, go to 'Preferences/General preferences and you will get this window

Clik on the 'Rulers and Units' tab;  in the 'Grid' section, set the horizontals and verticals to '36';  then clik 'OK'.
 

Step 5:  You now have a white graphic with a 2nd layer called 'calframe'

Turn on the Grid by clikking on it.
 

Step 6:  Now you have a gridded white image and at this point, it would be good to go to the Layers menu and make sure that the 'calframe' layer is selected.

 

Step 7:  We will be using the 'shapes' tool and the 'line' tool to make your template.
The pencil is the line shape and the red/blue shapes is your shape tool.

Clik on the 'Shapes' tool and then open the Control Box and set it as indicated below.
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Step 8:  Notice in the pic below that I started the selection on the 2nd grid and outlined 1 row X 14 grid boxes.

Also notice that my forground color is set to a dark color to make a more visible line, color doesn't matter unless you plan to leave the grid on the calendars.  You should now have a line around those boxes and two boxes make one day for the 'Day' line.
 
 

Step 9:  Now, starting with the row directly under the 'Day' row which is barely detected as being marked by the pic below but will be more will be more visible to you when you do it.

You will select the 14 boxes across and 10 boxes down;  once again the boxes will barely be visible in the following pics, but the outlines are there - TRUST ME!
 
 

Now we will clik on the line tool as pointed out earlier;  go to the 'Control Box'.

Use the settings above to set your controls.
 
 

Step 10:  Now you are on your own to understand the instructions for this step.

Red lines show you where you will draw the lines in your calframe and by now you are starting to understand why I showed you this method - the top row is defining the space for the day names, i.e. Mon, Tue and so on;  the rest of the  spaces are for the dates on the calendar - now, don't get GUNG HO and start putting them on this graphic - this is not a part of the calendars - ONLY a template and if I were you, once you get this template saved, I would get my hiney to Windows Explorer, locate the file and 'write protect' it so you don't accidently mess it up.
 
 

Step 11:  Now you will turn off the Grid under the 'View' menu;  next, activate 'Layer 1'.

 
 

Step 12:  After you have activated 'Layer 1';  delete 'Layer 1' as shown below.

 
 

Your image now appears as nothing but boxes and you are ready for the final step.

Under the 'Selection' menu, choose 'Select all';  clik on the rectangle selection tool and clik on a line of the frame so that it is selected as in the pic above;  place the cursor over one of the lines until it turns into the four arrowed 'moving' cursor then clik and drag away from the top of the image - not very far, just far enough that you can have some space showing as I have done in the above image.
 

Step 13:  Using your rectangle selection tool, drag a line around the frame, leaving some space.

Now go to the 'Image' menu and select crop.  Save your image in the 'psp' format, naming it 'calframe.psp'.
Your tewmplate is now ready to use and this is the time to 'write protect' the file.

Calframe is finished!

tutorial by CSGreen

* I do not generally compress my graphics but for the sake of loading time - the tutorial graphics are compressed!