Simple Video Tutorial Using Photoshop
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Create a Desktop or Printable Calendar with Photoshop
This Adobe Photoshop CS2 tutorial will demonstrate how you can create a beautiful photo-based calendar. Depending on how you want to display your calendar, you can either create one for your computer's desktop, or you can create a calendar that can be printed off on your inkjet printer. The only difference between the two will be the size and resolution of the document.
NOTE: This Adobe Photoshop lesson was created with Photoshop CS2, but the same results can be achieved in other versions, as well.
In This Lesson
Along with demonstrating how you can create a calendar with Photoshop, this lesson will show you how you can:- Resize your photographs
- Add text to your photographs
- Use Photoshop's Text properties
- Change the orientation of text
- Align objects on different layers
- Draw basic shapes
- Change a layer's opacity
Choosing a Photo
The choice of which photo to use for the background of the calendar is important. You'll want to find an image that lends itself to having a fairly large corner covered with the calendar information. The image seen in the following figure, for example, is a good choice. Note how the calendar takes up a bit of room, but doesn't really interfere with the overall photo. |
| Photo Calendar |
You can see that I've decided to go with an image that was photographed in landscape mode (wider than it is tall) rather than portrait mode (taller than it is wide). I've done so as this format obviously works better for displaying on a computer screen, my intended destination for this image. If you're going to be printing your calendar, though, and have an image that works well in the portrait mode, don't hesitate to use the image. As long as it looks cool pinned to your fridge, everything's good :)
Once you've chosen the photograph you'd like to use as the background for your calendar it's time to move on to resizing it.
