Here's the lowdown on how to submit your own calendar creation for inclusion on the Desktop Calendar Originals Site.

1. Create your calendar or wallpaper! Remember this is going to appear as a background on a computer desktop, so think big. If you need help with a calendar check out my tutorial here.
   
   To make it easier to make the grids for PhotoImpact Users, I am offering a full year's set of Calendar grids that can be imported to your Easy Palette. Click Here to download the set for 2010, then unzip and import to your EP. Since they are path objects you can resized and apply presets to your heart's content.
   
   Remember that most users have a toolbar across the bottom of their screens that will cover up the bottom of your calendar.
   
   Please make sure it is your original creation, or uses artwork/photography that is in the public domain, or from a tutorial that permits your use of the style and/or images used. You might like to check out the R.I.G.H.T.S. for Artists website. It is revelatory, and is a must-read for anyone doing graphics on the Web. In addition please read this page. The author explains what "Free to Use" really means and is a perfect statement and explanation of my policy. If you are not sure about the image you want to use, please contact me and together we can sort out whether or not you can. If you are in need of images to use, please contact me and I will send you a list of sites that allow you to use their images freely in any not-for-profit way.
   
   
2. You'll need to make at least two, One in each of the two most used sizes: 1024x768 and 800x600.(the larger two sizes aren't required, but are 1280x1024 and 1440x900)  It works best if you start with the large size, save it then resize to the smaller one and save again. Please name them as follows: month-yourname-size.jpg, i.e. sept-Leenie-800.jpg. It's important to include those file sizes at the end so our users can tell them apart. Only the largest number of the size is needed so 1024 for 1024x768 and 800 for 800x600.
   
   
3. If you make more than one design please number them consecutively. Ex: cal-feb-gad-01, cal-feb-gad-02. Or just give them descriptive names. But do include the larger number of the image size as the last part of the file-name. If you aren't clear on this try clicking some of the links on our current page to see what they have been named.
   
   
4. Don't forget to sign them! You may put your personal graphics site URL on the calendar. Use your watermark if you have one.
   
   
5. Don't forget to give credit to the Artist who's work you are borrowing. Or Photographer as the case may be. Even those who allow you to use them want you to provide a link back to their website. This can be done simply by adding an addtional watermark. Something like... "Image courtesy www.artist.com", where you would place the acutal URL in the quotes. If you arent' sure how that works, download some of my calendars (Gold Acres Designs) and look at how I have credited the images imcluding the Creddy Bears.
   
   
6. Don't worry about making thumbnails, I will do that as I add them to the page. That way they all come out the same size and fit nicely.
   
   
7. Save them as .jpg. And don't forget to optimize them. If you need a .bmp for your computer, simply open the calendar in your graphics program and save it again in the format you need.
   
   
8. Please keep each of such a size that when zipped, each will be under 500KB, so that downloading won't take forever.
   
   
9. You do not need to zip them up, since I will be combining them and zipping them myself before adding them to the page. Send them by e-mail to me at submissions@desktop-calendar-originals.com leaving out the spaces in the address. And one more thing....PLEASE don't include spaces or underlines in your filenames. Use a - hyphen instead. Thanks