Create Customized Calendars with SmartDraw

How to Create Photo Backgrounds
You can use your own photos as the background of your personalized calendars.

On the Main Toolbar, select Page tab. Click on the Background button. Once the drop-down menu displays click on Picture. Browse for the picture you would like to insert and click Open. You should see the photo appear behind the calendar gridlines.

Enter text as you would with any other calendar. If the default text color is hard to read over the new photo background, select the entire calendar and in the Text tab menu change the text color to something else.

Inserting a Photo into a Calendar
You can insert a picture or photo (such as a JPG, GIF, PNG or other bitmap image) into your drawing by choosing Open Picture on the Picture Tab and browsing to locate the picture on your computer.

Unless you have already selected a place for the picture to go (such as a selected shape or a table cell) it will be placed near the upper left corner of your SmartDraw drawing by default. You can then drag it to any position you like.

Replacing a Placeholder Photo
You can also insert a picture into an existing Picture Placeholder on some of the ready-made SmartTemplates.

The placeholders are temporary images meant to be replaced by your real images. Double-click on the placeholder to open the built-in photo software controls. Click on the bottm right folder icon to open the Import dialog, and then browse to the picture the same way you would using the Open Picture button.

You can delete a picture, or a picture placeholder, from the page like any other object, by clicking on it to select it and hitting the delete key.