Kathleen: I think you have to make calendars in iPhoto. So if you are using aperture’s images for your calendar, open your aperture library in iPhoto. Either drag the library onto iPhoto–or right click ap library and choose open with (in) iPhoto.

Kathleen,

Vidpixarts is correct. You can only make and order calendars from iPhoto. But I actually layout the photo section of my calendars in Aperture using the book module. The reason is I found the themes inside iPhoto too rigid. You can’t edit the layouts in iPhoto, only choose a layout and add photos to it. In some cases my wife wanted 16 (yes, I said sixteen) photos on one month. You can do almost anything using Aperture’s book module.

I created a custom theme book in Aperture with dimensions 13” x 10.5” with no margins (This is the right size for the photo area in an iPhoto calendar). In this custom book I created my own templates for photo layout. I created one page in the book for each month in the calendar plus the calendar cover.

Once you’ve completed the book pages for the calendar, click the print command while viewing the book. In the print dialog select the PDF menu and then Save PDF to Aperture. After is processes all the pages (could take awhile), a system service will open a small dialog asking which Aperture Project to save the pages to (Existing or New) and you can also select the format (JPEG, TIFF or PDF) and the naming convention. A new project will be created in Aperture with all the completed calendar pages.

Quit Aperture and open your Aperture library with iPhoto and use this new project as the source photos for your calendar. Just choose the single photo layout for each month and select the correct photo. When finished order the calendar from iPhoto.

I was planning to post a tip about this last year but never got the time. I’ve been doing my calendar this way for about 3 years.

Thomas

Thomas: great tip. Thanks.