# The Calendar Assistant

The calendar assistant settings are broken down into the following sections.

## Images

The "Images" tab takes you to the image file browser where you can select images and/or directories.

After selecting your images for the calendar, the assistant displays the average number of images per page on the right, the number of free spaces available, and the number of images missing.

You can change the number of images per page by selecting a different layout.

If you have selected more images than the selected layout will let you add to the calendar, the calendar assistant will automatically discard some images. The settings for this are available in "Automatic image selection".

Clicking "Show Selection" lets you see which images the assistant has chosen and how they are grouped. The selected images are checked and can be removed from the selection using the drop-down menu (right mouse button) or the trash can icon. You can set the grouping options in the corresponding tab. (See below.)
Of course you can manually reinsert any images that are removed, or remove any images you do not want, as well as changing the size and order of the images in the calendar.

The capacity bar on the right indicates how full the calendar design is; any remaining space is shown in white, and red indicates images which the Assistant has automatically discarded.

## Background

These options control the automatic selection of backgrounds for calendar pages. They can be selected individually or combined.

The calendar Assistant chooses backgrounds based on the options you have enabled.
"black" and "white" – This is where you select whether the Assistant should use black and/or white backgrounds.

"Own images as background" – If you enable this option, one of the images is used as the background whenever a group fills a double page spread (see the next tab but one).

The pale, medium to light, and strong backgrounds are multicolor backgrounds which are available in 36 different hues and color scales.

The calendar assistant attempts to select a background hue to match the colours in the images.

If you do not select any options, a white background will be used for all the pages in the calendar.

You can customize or replace the backgrounds manually at a later stage.

## Layout

This is where you set how the images and the calendar should be organized on the calendar pages by preference.

On the left of the tab the thumbnails for the available layouts are displayed. The selected thumbnail is shown on the right.

To select a layout, simply select the matching thumbnail.

Clicking the "=>" symbol inserts the layout on the right.

Later on, you can adjust layouts manually to match the calendar page, move, scale and rotate images, and, if images overlap, decide which image is in front of which other image.

## Automatic image selection

Sets the options for discarding similar, out of focus, poorly exposed and/or pale images. This is relevant when you want or need to discard images.

## Create Calendar

The "Create calendar" button launches the Assistant and automatically adds the images, layouts, and backgrounds to your calendar. You can then manually edit your calendar.