I usually make a calendar each year. This year I discovered a few interesting things about calendars, and a few interesting tricks for Photoshop/PSE. It seemed a good plan to collect them all in one place.
This post talks about the date strips, and the method for creating a MASTER that you can use year after year to create a new calendar. Also talks about the 2012 month layout and how you can save time by simple editing to create a whole new month. And this post has the two PDFs for the calendar shown. This post has the info on changing multiple layers of text in one step, which makes using the master file and changing your calendar year on year an absolute breeze.
This post shows making a small glued edge “tear off” block and talks about the sizing issues in the PDFs.
This post has two different PDFs, two font choices, shown above, solving the problem in the two-sheet version. Three pages, 4 months to a page, print and cut.
This post shows my “faux Letterpress” calendar. I just love the technique. And this post has the PDFs you can download for easy cutting if you want to make one like this.
Unrelated to printable calendars, but still fun, this post shows my altered version of the perpetual calendar on the Canon site. This is a link to my You Tube video/slideshow on how I made it.
This post shows my 2010 calendar, using foam core to create a stand and flipable pages made from office supply divider cards. This link is for the YouTube slideshow.
