And this is where Apple Photos makes it really hard. I used to try to get it done in December and it was the wrong time to cram a major project in! Getting it done in January is much less stressful.Īfter making a few decisions on the design of your calendar in Mimeo Photos, you are ready to start adding photos. Pro tip: Start it in February and have it be 12 months so the last month is January. Once you tell Photos you want a calendar, you’ll be walked through some options by Mimeo Photos like on what month would you like the calendar to start, and for how many months you would like it. I have Mimeo Photos installed along with a direct competitor called Motif. If you don’t have any extensions installed you’ll have the option to go to the App Store where you can download different extensions. If you click the plus button next to My Projects, you can see options to create a book, calendar, card, wall decor, prints, slideshow or other. If you hover over the words “My Projects” you’ll see a plus button. ![]() On the Mac only (not the iPad), if you scroll down on the left sidebar past the stock things like Library, Favorites and Memories, past Albums, Shared Albums, and My Albums, you’ll finally find Projects. Let’s walk through how you create a calendar (or other project) inside Apple Photos. That’s a good thing and a bad thing, right?Īpple Photos completely failed me in making the calendar this year, and I’m not sure why. This year I had over 460 photos in the shared calendar album to choose from. My family embraces the calendar, so we start a shared album every year and the kids pour funny and awesome photos throughout the year. I have some improvement suggestions for Mimeo Photos but we’ll get to that in a bit. This year I ran into some significant challenges making my calendar, but in the end I think it showed a better path to success. They’re expensive at $35 each after tax and shipping, but again, gorgeous and my family loves them so the price is ok with me. The calendars are simply gorgeous when printed. It does let me have a lot more flexibility with the layouts than Apple’s tools ever did. ![]() It does let me create beautiful calendars that warm our hearts and that’s the most important thing. At the time I said I was in love with it, but I think over the years it’s mellowed into I’m in like with it. ![]() I wrote about Mimeo Photos back in 2019 and I sang its many virtues. It’s actually the company Apple used to use to print their calendars and the quality is fantastic. One of the companies that developed a plugin for Photos is a company called Mimeo Photos. They developed an API that allowed third-parties to help you create projects like photo books and calendars and more. I used to use the built-in tools in iPhoto to make my calendar, but in 2019 Apple decided to stop providing this capability. I used to do one big photo for each month but as the family expanded, each page is now a collage of 20 photos per month. When I started doing it, it was only Steve and me and the two kids, but now our family has grown to 10. I’ve been doing it every year since my own kids were little. Every year I make a calendar for my family that includes the very best photos of the year.
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