Welcome back and for today we will create a beautiful 2021 calendar in CorelDraw. This is a creative and amazing project to personalize your 2021 calendar in Coreldraw. Why not make a layout with your family’s photo, your favorite cartoon character, or anything under the sun. Just let your imagination and creative juices flow.
Here is a little introduction about CorelDraw.
Developed by Corel Corporation, CorelDraw is basically a vector-based program designed to create layouts such as posters, flyers, logos, invitation cards, or different kinds of vector-based graphics. This software is also called the Corel Graphics Suite.
So with that being said, we will also show you the process of using Corel Scripts and their plug-ins setup ready for calendar making. Corel is a perfect vector program which you can create your own calendar easily as it provides different elements by highlighting your special occasions and holidays, choose your desired type of layout, insert images, even add different languages for your calendar, this is just to mention a few. So stay tuned!
Before we start making the 2021 Calendar we need to prepare the things and tools we need.
Creating a 2021 Calendar
Materials you need:
- Paper (Any type of plain paper that can work on a printer that you will use.)
- Photo Printer
- Stapler or Any tool that can bind your calendar.
Software used for the design:
- CorelDraw
Let’s Start Making our 2021 Calendar!
To start with your 2021 Calendar in Coreldraw
First: Gather up the ideas for your design: It is very ideal to collect first all the needed photos for your layout as this will save you time when you have compiled everything and can be grabbed easily.
Second: Open CorelDraw: Once you save all the needed files we will then start creating the layout for your calendar. We have divided this tutorial into two parts so we can easily guide you through until we have our finished product.
Part 1
- First, click Window> Dockers> Script, This will show a docker on the right for scripts.
In the Script docker, Open Visual Basic for Applications> Calendar Wizard> Wizard, Then Double click CreateCalendar.
- Then beside Macros.you will see a drop down menu, select CalendarWizard and left click on Run. The calendar wizard will be displayed after.
- In the calendar wizard box, you will see Calendar Date on the top part, simply choose the year from the list box, then click all to add all the months of the year.
- Proceed next to Calendar Language, from the Language box: you can select and modify your desired language. To add special occasions and holidays, click on Holidays then specify the date, month, and a title for that occasion on the Holidays Specified box.
- How to add holidays: In the Calendar Language section, there is a button Add Holidays. Add all your holidays you want to include, even birthdays and any other known dates.
- Layout box, from here you can choose your layout. You can pick different types for your calendar.
- Of course you need to preview your calendar and for that you will need to click on Expand to have a bigger view of it.
- Now adjust your preferred text size if you like to have a new page dimension as the calendar wizard provides an active project by default. For customization, just make sure that the check box is empty beside Create Calendar in Current Document, then specify the orientation, dimension, and margins. To adjust the text font just hit on Adjust Fonts.
- Almost done for part1: In the calendar wizard go to Large Header Tab, and under the font press the back: White box. Then change this colour to a color we can find later. This can be any colour as we just need to find it to add our custom images.
- When you’re done with all these steps provided, from the CalendarWizard, click on Generate. You can now add images on your calendar to make it pop by using CorelDraw.
Second Part: Customize the design and appearance of your calendar.
Basically this part is where you can personalize and add some design to your calendar. For example change the background, add or remove the borders, change the aspect of holiday text, and so on.
- We now go to Objects Docker, look for the rectangle that has the different colour (Arrow 1), copy (ctrl C), Paste it (ctrl V) then add the image you would like resizing to fit how you like inside the rectangle.
Arrow 1: Look for the rectangle that has the different colour
Arrow 2: Power clip and move to above coloured rectangle.
Then for Arrow 3: The text above the rectangle you copied
- In the Object Docker move the rectangle above the image, then select the image.
- Press in the top Menu Bar, Object> Powerclip, Place Inside frame. then click on the rectangle to place it inside.
- Now move the power clipped rectangle down to just above the original rectangle you copied in the Object docker (Arrow 2).
- Add any other edits or modifications like find the text above the rectangle (Arrow 3) you copied and change the colour size or location to suit the image you added. If needed you can press the eye next to the coloured rectangle to hide it from printing.
- Add shadows or any other effect and done. You can move to the next tab and do this for each month or calendar you made.
Final step: Ready to Print: Prep now your photo printer and paper as we are ready to print then, bind every page, and there you go, you now have a beautiful and professionally made calendar that can be given as a gift, thrown up onto the fridge or hung in the Home office. And that is how you make the 2021 Calendar in Coreldraw
To wrap it up
2020 has been a rough year for almost everyone, positively, we should keep on moving forward even if it takes a while and just keep our spirits high for an amazing 2021. With that being said, we appreciate you taking some time to read this article. As always, thank you for your support! Stay Happy and Keep Making! ☺
Hope this helps you create your very own calendar by using programs such as CorelDraw and share this video to anyone you know who loves to create things and DIYs, and they may help you make these pretty calendars.
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Credits to CorelDraw article link reference:
https://support.corel.com/hc/en-us/articles/215873578-Creating-Calendars-with-CorelDRAW
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