I put this tutorial off for a long time because it is so involved to write the tutorial, but so easy to make the calendars that I never understood why anyone would need a tutorial.  Still don't, as there are very few steps.
1 design a graphic the same size as the screen resolution you are using.
2 add cal dates and month and year.
3 save to the 'Windows' folder in the 'bmp' format.
Thats' all there is to it. Using a calendar template makes the job easier.

Here we go.
I am going to start with an image in the proper size for a 640X480 screen resolution.

Step 2:  flood filled with white

 

Step 3:  Add new layer and name it trim

 

Step 4:  I set my flood fill to pattern and opened a tile to use.

 

Step 5:  I set the pattern to the tile I opened.

 

Step 6:  I flood filled the 'trim' layer and leaving it for the time being,

added a new layer and named it calframe.
 

Step 7:  Next, I opened the new calframe.psp template we just made and holding down the Ctrl key, pressed the C key

Then I closed the calframe.psp file
 
 

Step 8:  Still on the calframe layer, I held down the Ctrl key and pressed the V key

Now the calendar frame is in place.
 

Step 9:  Move scroll bars for the image until the bottom right corner of the image is visible.

Move the cursor over the lines of the frame until you see the little 4 way arrow that allows you to drag the selection around and drag it down and right;  leave the bottom 26 pixels blank for the taskbar area;  then de-select the frame
 

Step 10:  Now add a new layer and name it dates - I did not make a pic of this since you probably know how to do it by now.

On the date layer now - clik on the text tool and clik in the top left box of the frame area;  bring up the text window, select font, font size, font color and then type Sun and clik OK.
 
 

Step 11:  Position the text on the bottom line of that box.

Now you can finish the day titles on this row.
 

Step 12:  Now either find a calendar or start the dates somewhere and then find a month that starts on that day.  I generally create for a particular season, so I grab a small calendar I keep by the computer for this purpose.

You will increase the font size for the next step.
 
 

Step 13:  Add your dates in the appropriate spaces to complete this step.

 
 

Srep 14:  Activate the calframe layer.

 
 

Step 15:  Delete the calframe layer.

 
 

Step 16:  Activate the dates layer.

 
 

Step 17:  Add the Month name and the Year to the top of the calendar.

 
 

Step 18:  activate the trim layer and finish designing your graphic then save it to your Windows directory in BMP format.

Why ALL of these layers?
 

This is why, folks!  I got pompous and look at the finished calendar;

without the layers, I couldn't fix the goof - Do you see what I did?  I'll give you a hint!  How many days does October have?
 

Since I learned to do this type of work in layers, all I had to do was activate the dates layer and add the missing date;

and I added my insignia to the same layer and the calendar is finished and this calendar is added to the Over the Fence Buddies Desktop Calendar Wallpaper site in the October grouping.  Even if I had put something under the dates or added another layer to put things over the dates, I can always go back to the dates layer and fix a mess!

Okay, I have finally fulfilled the promise to make this tute but don't use it cause I don't need any competition for our calendar site!  LOL   Tutorial for Alternate Date Alignments for your calendar.

Tutorials by CSGreen

Zipped calendar tutorial in pdf format is a 3MB download.

* I do not generally compress my graphics but for the sake of loading time - the tutorial graphics are compressed!