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My 2007 custom 13 x 19 inch photographic calendar is a collection of some my photographs taken in 2006 in Acadia National Park, New Mexico and in the Appalachians. Click on slideshow or click on thumbnails and select viewing size (small, med, large). I used the calendar template provided by 455 Rocket: http://www.pbase.com/455rocket/_monthly_calendar_templates_06 In Photoshop CS2, I created a new white background .psd document at 13 x 19 inches. Then I converted the template .gif file to .psd and cropped the bottom calendar part of the template and moved it into the new document as a layer. Make sure that the Photoshop Image Mode of the document is RGB color (not Indexed color - otherwise your image will look like a negative). Insert image (13.5 " x ~9", 8 bit) in by dragging it in to create a new layer. Add title and other text as a text layer. For the cover page I used 13" roll paper so I could do borderless printing. The cover page uses a background image that was an enlarged portion of a flower image set at ~60% opacity in a layer. Printing was done on Inkpress Photochrome Luster paper (about $1 per sheet if you buy it in boxes of 50 sheets) on my Epson 4000 using archival Ultrachrome inks. I plan to do a run of about 50 calendars this year (that is 650, 13 x 19 prints!) so I ordered the paper in 500 sheet bulk from Steve at http://www.prographics.com who gave me a price break! This year, I plan to use the same bindery I discovered last year (NorthEast Bindery in Elizabeth, New Jersey) that is able to do Wire-O binding with a thumbcut notch so that a nice wire hanger can be used.