Hi everyone! ddrawf is online
And today we are going to talk about
how to create calendars in Photoshop
First of all Photoshop is not designed to creating calendars
Nevertheless
if you are ready to suffer I will show you how it can be done
Here's what you'll need:
More or less powerful PC
Photoshop CS5 or a newer one plus some knowledge of how it works
Calendar Maker Script (see link in description)
Important! Save-before-crash skill and I will show why
And very important - Patience and Willpower
Ready? Let's start then!
I'd recommend you to apply some PS settings manually
Go to "Edit - Preferences... - General..."
or use hotkey Ctrl+K on Windows Cmd+K on Mac
Go to Performance
Set a little bit more than 70% of the allocated memory
Choose "Big and Flat"
Set scratch-disk's configuration
I recommend not to choose a system one from the list
Prioritize it this way:
Prioritize it this way:
let the disk with the most free space be the highest one
and locate all the others lower
All this will simplify our work a little
Ok, let's go ahead
We'll need 13 images:
one for each month and one for the cover
Since 2018 is a Chinese year of the dog, the images will relate to it
Actually I just adore doggies :)
Go to pexels.com
and search for the images you'd like to see in your calendar
Or use keyword search
Choose an image you like and download it in the necessary quality
(the larger the better, but don't go overboard)
I save the links to the images in order
to specify their authors
Select 13 images this way...
Create a new A4 format doc in PS
with Resolution 300 dpi and CMYK Color mode
Turn the canvas at 90 degrees
Then when you choose an order
(front cover and 12 months)
drag the found images to our doc
And adjust their size
Then rasterize the layer
Repete these actions with every image
In the end crop them to get rid of all the unnecessary parts
Then highlight all the added layers
and set the proper order for them, to be exact:
Layer - Arrange - Reverse
Now export all the layer into separate images
Go to "File - Scripts - Export Layers to Files..."
Set the path to the file, the necessary format
and the prefix in the window
Then click Run and wait until the script finishes its work
Then we are going to work with the Calendar Maker Script
Start it, go to the Expert Mode
And make the necessary settings in each tab
For example I want to place the heading on the right
Tick the month background in order
to set the common background
Set the number of rows and columns to 1
So that there was one month for each of your images
Go to the week section
and set the display of week numbers in accordance with the accepted standard
Untick "0" in the day section and set backgrounds for holidays
...and upload the lists with the names of months, days of the week and holidays
You can find the detailed instruction on complying such lists
in the User Guide which is attached to the script
I just unticked the "Group by month" checkbox for holidays
as grouping is not required for this task namely
As for fonts, I prefer Garamond
but you can choose any font you like
Now I've prepared the necessary parameters for all the elements
and I'll just set them
Set intervals the way you prefer
I've already prepared the necessary values for this task
Enable autosaving
and select "Save result to a user doc", then choose the A4 Landscape
Unselect "Adjust if the result has a larger size"
The PRO-version users can save all their settings
as well as upload them
You can find my settings in the video description
Check the settings
then click "Create!" and …
have a cup of coffee :)
We have a doc
(or dog)
with the prepared info for months
Let's focus on holidays even more
I'm creating a new set which I'll write all the Actions into
You can also download the "Calendar 2018.atn"
Please find the link in the description
Before you make a record please check if one text layer with the holiday date is selected
Then click the record button and perform any actions to the layer
Then stop the recording and cancel all the actions in the history panel
Start CalendarMS again
and go to the "Finishing touches" section
Choose "Select Type: use year selectors"
And then the year's group
Set a holiday list
which you specified when you created the calendar as your goal
Click "Select this!", fill in the year, click OK and wait
Now select the recorded Action from the Calendar 2018 set
Check if "Apply to each of the selected layers separately" is selected
And click "Play"
As you can see, the way all the holidays look changed
Now select all the holiday backgrounds
so that it would be more convenient to work with them
Set "Backgrounds - holidays" as your goal and click "Select this!"
Close the script window
Use the "Move tool" to change the location for holiday backgrounds
Now I want to group all the month backgrounds together
To do it I also use "Finishing touches"
and set "Backgrounds - months" as a goal
In the end I merge all the backgrounds into one group
Ctrl + G on Win Cmd + G on Mac
Now let's work with holiday backgrounds
Go to any smart-object related to a holiday
Place an image or a figure there
I'm going to use a shape of a little paw print
(as it's the year of the dog, as you remember)
I remove the red border
and crop its sides a little
Then I save the results
As you can see
now there is a cute paw print near each holiday
Then I return the display of all the months again
To do it I select all the layers
go to the menu and choose Layer
Show Layers
or Layer - Hide Layers and then Layer - Show Layers
Now you can merge each month into a separate layer
Choose a layer group, Right Click - Merge Group
Repeat for each group.
Then align the layers relative to the center of the canvas
I did it wrong :)
Instead of selecting all the year group I selected each element of it separately
Highlighted the white Background
and aligned them vertically and horizontally
with the help of the Move Tool
You'll see how I fix it just a little bit later
Check the pixel size of your canvas
We'll use it later
Go to "Image - Canvas Size"
Edit the month background
Go to any smart-object of the month
Increase its size to the A4 in pixels
Now it's time to correct the mistake
Align the layers with months along the upper border
Now I place the background which I prepared in advance to the smart-object
(find the link to the background in the description)
Open the document with the background, copy and paste its content into the smart-object
Remove the red border
Save the changes into the smart-object
Adjust the months to the created background
And then you'll need to catch the moment to save :)
Don't forget about it
Now I want to move the dates
to the bottom left corner of my cell
To do it I write a new Action
Now I'll apply it for every month.
Move our group a little bit lower from the upper border
Merge the month layers into a separate group
Then let's add some colors to the month backgrounds
As I used vector shapes
all we'll need to do
is to change its colors in the settings
If the same color scheme
for all the months is OK for you, that would be enough
All the back parts already changed their colors
as we use copies of smart-objects
But I want to add different colors for each image
To do it
we'll need to make all the smart-objects independent from each other
Write an Action again
Copy the current smart-object through the menu
Layer - Smart Objects - New Smart Object via Copy
We'll get a new smart-object
Go to the lower layer using the "Alt+[" or "Opt+[" on Mac
And delete it
I use this action for the other smart-objects
Now if you apply some changes to one smart-object
it will NOT effect the other layers
"Pack up" the backgrounds
and catch a moment to save
You'll need to do it in order to avoid this T_T
Well, I remade it all over
and found a moment to save the document
Now we'll enlarge our canvas to the A3 size
in order to place the images to the top part
Go to "Image - Canvas Size..."
Set Percent
200% height
and Anchor relative to the bottom center arrow
Change the Color Mode to CMYK; Go to "Image"
Mode - CMYK Color
Don't Flatten; Don't Rasterize
Now to reduce the load for Photoshop let's make each month
a separate PSD file
To do it I'll write an Action again
Go to the previous layer
Alt+[ or Opt+[
Add the layer preceding the previous one to the selection
by Alt+Shift+[ or Opt+Shift+[
Create a duplicate and add it to the new doc with a name
Return to the original doc
and stop the recording
Enable "Toggle dialog on\off" in the "Make document" subcommand
in order to manually choose a name for the document
Perform the Action for the other months
For example, let's take August
and see how to choose the correct color scheme for a photo
Now that we have each month as a separate file
we can return the smart-object content back
o the document
Place the "august" photo into the document
Select the needed element of the back part in the "Color stripes" group
and use the eyedropper to apply the color from the photo to this element
Adjust the color by eye
so that it would harmonize with the photo
Repeat the action for all the other elements of the group
and get the result which looks smart
We'll color the numbers too
That is the reason we chose the grey color for them
This way it will be easier to add colors to them
This task is also routine
so I write an action for it
Create a layer
and select the area below the names of the days of the week
Fill it with any color.
Create a clipping mask on the current layer
Set blending mode to color
To unselect use Ctrl+D or Cmd+D on Mac
Our action is ready to be performed for other months
Select the layer with dates before you start the action
Months do not have the same number of weeks
There are 6 of them in the template
as you can see there are 5 in August
That's why we can remove the extra line
with the help of another Action
Let's go forward to adding holidays
If you remember a document
with text layers was created upon the calendar creation
Change it to the CMYK Color mode
Now copy and paste each layer with holiday names
to the corresponding month
Choose a necessary position for it
select its font, size and color
By the way
I was foolish enough to choose the blue color initially
If I had chosen grey
I would not have had to change its color now
All I needed to do in this case is to merge it with the date layer
and the color would appear automatically with the help of the clipping mask
Now let's merge again our months into one document
Go to "File - Scripts - Load files into Stack..."
Set Use - Folder
then Browse...
choose a folder with the PSD-files for our months
Click OK
Please pay attention that our PSDs
must NOT contain smart-objects
I decided to place the month a little bit lower in order
not to have such a large empty space in the bottom part
Again I will use Actions which proved to be so useful
Now I export each layer to TIFF
Go to "File - Scripts... - Export Layers to Files"
Now it's time to cover our calendar
I chose this luxury cover for the front cover
The front cover does not require a lot of actions
We'll just mark the year somewhere near
and add a couple of effects
As for the back cover
we'll go the other way
We'll create a new document
with the A4 Landscape
Place all the images there
and then reduce their size
so that they looked like thumbnails
Then place images into the 5x3 table
Add a year and a caption
and then adjust the paragraph parameters
All that is left to do now
is to add authors of the photos
and the necessary links
Now I want to create a multipage TIFF
Later I will export all the layers for printing from it
Why?
Well, it is more convenient.
Some may find a multipage TIFF handy
and some would prefer several TIFFs in one folder
I will write one more Action
or maybe two Actions
which is going to transform the TIFFs into separate layers
Remember
that you can find the set of actions here in the video description
When everything is ready I use
File - Scripts... - Export Layers to Files
When I thought the work was finished
I found out one more defect
After printing 5 mm will be cropped from the sides
In case it is not crucial in relation to photos
the dates of the months can be "cut off"
(which is not good at all)
I'll fix this issue with the help of the last Action
which will move the month a little to the left and add the missing 5mm.
Of course
these overmeasures should be taken into account in advance
but I forgot about them
and I'm too lazy to remake this video from the start :)
This is how the results of my work look
I did this work according to my wishes
That's all
Those who watched the video to the end
I'm proud of you
You are AWESOME!
Have a perfect day!
Merry Christmas
and Happy New Year!
Bye!
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