How to Make a Calendar on Photobucket

Design a calendar filled with your own photos.

In addition to providing online storage space for your pictures, Photobucket gives you the ability to create custom printed calendars. Photobucket works with QOOP, a company specializing in the creation of user-submitted art and literature, to produce the calendars. To make a calendar on Photobucket, you use the free tools. While creating it is free, to order your printed calendar you must pay a fee. As of 2011, the price of one calendar from Photobucket is $14.99.

Instructions

1. Sign in to your Photobucket account.

2. Click the "Photo Products" tab. If you don't see it, click "My Albums" first. You see a new menu that contains the "Photo Products" tab. Alternatively, click "My Home" and choose "Tools." From here, click "Photo Products."

3. Click "Photo Calendars" to start the process or creating and ordering the calendar.

4. Click either "11 X 8.5" or "13.5 X 19" in the "Calendar Type" section to select a size for your calendar.

5. Click the drop-down "Start Month" box to choose the month your calendar will begin with. For example, choose "January" for a standard calendar or your current month for a calendar you can use right away.

6. Choose which holidays your calendar should display. Your options include "Canadian Holidays," "No Holidays," "European Holidays" or "U.S. Holidays."

7. Click "Next" to begin the image-selection process.

8. Click a photo in the Image Tray. While holding down the mouse button, drag the photo to the Selected Images Tray. Release the mouse button to add the photo to the calendar. Alternatively, drag an entire album from the Album Tray and drop it into the Selected Images Tray.

9. Click "Next" after adding your calendar images. This takes you to the Image Placement page, where you can choose the layout for your Photobucket calendar.

10. Click the drop-down "Images Per Page" box to choose how many of your photos will appear on each page of your calendar. Alternatively, click the "Random Selection" box to let Photobucket choose. Press "Auto Flow Images" and Photobucket will automatically arrange your photos for each calendar month.

11. Type a title for your calendar in the "Cover Title" text box. Click the drop-down boxes next to "Cover Title" to choose a position for your title. Options include "Bottom," "Center" or "Top" for vertical alignment. Options for horizontal alignment include "Left Alignment," "Center Aligned" and "Right Aligned."

12. Click either "Yes" or "No" in the Image Spacing section. If your calendar has multiple images per month, this option determines whether the edges of the images touch or have a space separating them.

13. Click "White" or "Black" in the Background Color section.

14. Click either "Yes" or "No" in the Image Cropping section. If you choose "Yes," Photobucket will crop your images so that they're all the same size. If you choose "No," your photos will retain their original size and shape.

15. Click "Apply Options."

16. Click a picture in the "Selected Images" panel. Drag and drop it into the box that corresponds to the month in which it should appear. For example, drag a photo to the "February" box so that it will appear as your calendar's picture for February.

17. Click "Next" to load the Preview screen.

18. Examine the preview of your calendar to make sure everything appears as it should.

19. Click the radio button beside the number of calendars you wish to purchase.

20. Click "Checkout" to enter your payment and shipping information, and to place your order.

Tips & Warnings

• Your pictures must be at least 200 dpi in resolution. If any of your pictures fail to meet this requirement, a box will appear on the Preview screen alerting you to the issue.

References

• Photobucket Help: Order Prints and Merchandise
• QOOP: Questions About Calendars