Your calendar occupies a prime position on your wall, so why not make it truly personal? This video shows how to create a great-looking calendar from your photos in less than two minutes, using RocketLife-powered software. You’ll learn how to add photos, choose a theme and starting month, and customize the calendar grid itself to complement your photos. (Click the Full Screen button to watch in HD.)
These tips apply to all of our calendar projects, including ship-to-home, print-at-home, and pick-up-at-store versions.
What’s on your calendar? Let us know in the comments below.
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010
How To Mix & Match Graphics in RocketLife
Each theme in RocketLife includes a related set of Placeable Graphics. The Halloween theme, for example, offers nine: a bat, a ghost, two moons, two spiderwebs, a black cat, some pumpkins, and a spider. However, we don't restrict you to one set; you can easily grab and use any graphic in the program. (There are currently more than 800.)
In case you missed our last tutorial, Placeable Graphics are like stickers without the goo: You can drop these images on your layout and smoothly rotate, resize, and even tint or crop them.
This calendar page features two placeable graphics — a moon and a spider. (The bats are part of the Halloween theme itself.)
This calendar page mixes Placeable Graphics from two themes. Also notice how RocketLife automatically blended the main photo into the theme for an extra spooky effect. (Click to enlarge.)
The spider image came from the Halloween theme:
To add the spider graphic to our layout, we clicked the Design tab, then the Placeable Graphics tab, and then the spider image. (Click to enlarge.)
The moon image came, surprisingly, from the Garden Surprise theme:
Selecting a new theme from the lefthand column in Design mode brings up its set of Placeable Graphics. We found the perfect moon in the Garden Surprise theme. (Click to enlarge.)
Tip To add even more spooky atmosphere, we then selected the moon on the layout and made it slightly transparent, simulating fog. You'll find transparency controls in the Touch-Up tab.
Placeable graphics are especially good for scrapbooking, as RocketLife expert Kim Guymon demonstrates in this video, Digital Scrapbooking with RocketLife. And you can even add your own.
In case you missed our last tutorial, Placeable Graphics are like stickers without the goo: You can drop these images on your layout and smoothly rotate, resize, and even tint or crop them.
This calendar page features two placeable graphics — a moon and a spider. (The bats are part of the Halloween theme itself.)
This calendar page mixes Placeable Graphics from two themes. Also notice how RocketLife automatically blended the main photo into the theme for an extra spooky effect. (Click to enlarge.)
The spider image came from the Halloween theme:
To add the spider graphic to our layout, we clicked the Design tab, then the Placeable Graphics tab, and then the spider image. (Click to enlarge.)
The moon image came, surprisingly, from the Garden Surprise theme:
Selecting a new theme from the lefthand column in Design mode brings up its set of Placeable Graphics. We found the perfect moon in the Garden Surprise theme. (Click to enlarge.)
Tip To add even more spooky atmosphere, we then selected the moon on the layout and made it slightly transparent, simulating fog. You'll find transparency controls in the Touch-Up tab.
Placeable graphics are especially good for scrapbooking, as RocketLife expert Kim Guymon demonstrates in this video, Digital Scrapbooking with RocketLife. And you can even add your own.
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Cool Tip: The Whole Calendar Is Your Canvas
RocketLife software was designed to reward experimentation, and its drag-and-drop support is a great example of that. Try dragging objects around the screen to see what happens: You can create some unexpected designs.
Here's one of our favorite tips: You can customize the grid area of the calendar project as well as the top section. This is a great way to personalize a month. Simply drag a photo of each person in your family onto his or her birthday square, or add a placeable graphic such as a flower or balloon.
In this example, we dragged two graphics, a photo, and a text box onto the calendar grid. We then used the Transparency button to make the elephant graphic blend into the background. (Click the image to see the details.)
You can customize the grid section of the calendar as well as the main photo. (Click to enlarge.)
We'll be sharing many more fun secrets like this in upcoming posts. What techniques have you discovered? Please leave a comment below, or tell the world over on our friendly Facebook page.
Here's one of our favorite tips: You can customize the grid area of the calendar project as well as the top section. This is a great way to personalize a month. Simply drag a photo of each person in your family onto his or her birthday square, or add a placeable graphic such as a flower or balloon.
In this example, we dragged two graphics, a photo, and a text box onto the calendar grid. We then used the Transparency button to make the elephant graphic blend into the background. (Click the image to see the details.)
You can customize the grid section of the calendar as well as the main photo. (Click to enlarge.)We'll be sharing many more fun secrets like this in upcoming posts. What techniques have you discovered? Please leave a comment below, or tell the world over on our friendly Facebook page.
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