If you want, you can emphasize the holidays making them a different color or maybe a different background. Nedless to say, in various cultures the calendars are represented differently: if you make an international one, is a safe bet to start the week with Monday and end it with Sunday, if is a USA one, start with Sunday and end with Saturday, if you make it for your own language, use the local day names and week convention.
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I let here only the capital letter of the names, you may type the full name or an abreviation, just take care about the size, in that case you may need to use a smaller font size for the names. Take the text tool and change values of the first row to show the days names. We have the basic grid layout, but we want to edit the values, the clones lived their purpose: select everything and unlink clones (Edit > Clone > Unlink Clone). Make sure all the other parameters are zero, if needed reset them first.
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How many clones? Easy: a week has 7 days, sp we need 7 columns, a week is split in 4 weeks and some extra-days, so we need 5 rows for them plus another row for the day names, so 6 rows.
Select the group and make a bunch of tiled clones (Edit > Clone > Create Tiled Clones) Select the rectangle and the text and group them. Or make it transparent, we don't need it visible any more but only as a spacer and placeholder. You can make now the rectangle white (or if you use a different background, make it that color). Place the text inside the rectangle whatever you want, only keep in mind its width will change, it should accustom both "1" and "30", so take care with spacing, size and alignment. Also, I made the text aligned to right, as that is the look I aimed for (depending on your intended look, it may fork aligned to left or center too).
Choose a font you like and a size that will look good (retrospectively, my choice it for a 36 pt font size was not the best, my final layout would have looked better with smaller letters, but bat taste is a right, correct?). This is the main text, so black is a sensible choice. With the text tool write a digit (or a letter, whatever you want, a digit may be more useful since most of the text is goind to be numbers). I made it colored to have the next step easier. I started with a square, you may start from a square too or use a rectangle, depending on the look you are aiming for, want the grid taller or wider. So let's start with the most important part: creating a grid of days. Images or not, a calendar is defined by a grid of days, you can have a calendar with no pictures, but you can't have one with no days. Of course, Inkscape is not the perfect tool for this, its lack of multipage support will make you use multiple files (12 files, one for each month and a cover, at least), self-made templates to keep the look consistent, will not automatically add crop and bleed marks (you can do it manually, but I didn't cover it here, maybe another time) and the resulting files will not be CMYK (if you need CMYK, which I didn't).
Still, my choice was Inkscape, since it is the tool I am comfortable the most for such task and here I will describe the process. you got my point, there are a ton of tools to be used, some Free, some not. Using Inkcape may look as a less optimal choice, a photographer would probably have used Photoshop for the task, a FOSS photographer GIMP, a designer Illustrator or Corel Draw, a FOSS designer Scribus, a newbie Microsoft Word, a FOSS newbie Libre Office. Then the calendar sources were made available as SVGs, for anyone to use (both in Romanian and English), modify, play with and so on.
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This year I made my own photo calendar, nicely printed on paper (is small sized, a calendar to put on your desk), the files are available as high-res PDFs, for download and use.
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