When have you last been in need for a quick Christmas present for your Mother? And you know that she was always fond of your vacation pictures?

Then why don’t you create a photo calender with the free GIMP Kalender Plugin from naturfotokalender.de. It is a no cost and easy to use plugin for the well known gimp graphics program. Moritz Mekelburger is the original author and created it for Kalender drucken, that is how we germans call “calendar printing”.

This program proofed to be a really powerful tool, and so it was enhanced by naturfotokalender.de in order to be able to create the whole year at once. You will find instructions on a page called Kalender erstellen mit eigenen Fotos.

The calender plugin lets you choose a directory with pictures for every month, then creates a gimp pic with all the months as layers. The next step is to indicate where you want your calender to be rendered and then you start the plugin again. You have to state the year for which the calender is created and off you go!

After the plugin is done you have 12 pictures each embedded with a calender for the corresponding month.

The site itself features a lot more, there is a fine collection of calenders with nature photography, so the site is worth a visit no matter if you want to create your own calender or not.