Merry Christmas from the DPN team!

25th December - 2001
By Ian Burley

Despite the cloud and the rain outside the Digital Photography Now office in Hemel Hempstead, England, this morning, it’s Christmas day and so a time to be happy! I’m just about to jump in the car with my family to enjoy Christmas day with my much loved friends and relatives.

But before I go - some more news from DPN, plus a customisable calendar you can download and print, with your own photos, to give to your loved ones.

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Still time to enter this month’s competition...

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The 2002 DPN calendar

Now, back to that calendar. Stealing an excellent idea from my marvellous neighbour, Maria McBride, last Christmas, I designed a 12 month calendar illustrated with digital photos of my children. It was such a hit, that I’ve improved the design and had to print quite a few more for friends and relatives this year.

Of course it’s a perfect thing to provide for DPN visitors to download - maybe for a New Years gift, a late Christmas gift or just for your own use.

It’s a 12 page Microsoft Word document and the difficult bits we have pre-prepared for you include the general layout of the calendar months.

January is provided with some dummy highlighted dates to serve as a template for you. But basically, all you need to do is replace the main dummy graphics with your own images and Bob’s your Uncle.

You need to be reasonably proficient in Microsoft Word as you will need to re-size your photos to make them fit suitably. For making highlighted day boxes, you will need to be able to adjust table cell properties - right click over the cell and you will see the menus you will need.

A more detailed article to accompany the calendar template file you can download will appear in a few days. For now, click here to download the DPN 2002 calendar.

And now all that’s left to be said is, enjoy your Christmas, wherever you are and let’s look forward to a happy, prosperous and peaceful 2002 for all!

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