We will look at how to make a calendar with your own hands. Depicted on it can be anything, photographs of people dear to you, or beautiful landscapes.
Each of us would always like to receive an original gift in which a piece of the soul is invested. Such a gift can be any impulse of imagination embodied in any material, be it natural or any other. We will look at how to make a calendar with your own hands. Depicted on it can be anything, photographs of people dear to you, or beautiful landscapes.
Getting started, you need to make calendar grids for each month of the selected year. Frankly, doing them with your own hands is a very long and tedious task. We suggest taking a ready-made grid on any of the sites specializing in the preparation of such calendars, for example, makecalendar.net. You should select the desired calendar language, in our case it will be Russian, then select the year. Using the scroll bars, as well as the buttons for decreasing-increasing the calendar, we stretch the calendar to the entire screen of your monitor and after that press the “Print Screen” keyboard button, so we copy the image to the clipboard.
In order to create a picture of the size in which we want to see our calendar in printed form, go to Photoshop and create a new file of the required size. Typically, a home printer is not always sufficient for large-format printing, but it doesn't matter. By contacting any professional photo studio, you can order a print of any format, while it will be made in excellent printing quality and on good paper.
After creating a new file, in the "Edit" menu, select the "Paste" subsection, this will create a layer that contains the calendar template you copied earlier.
After that, we start to split the months of the calendar into separate layers. This should be done by highlighting each month with a separate square frame, selecting for each of them first the command "Edit-> Cut", and then "Edit-> Paste". After that, as all months have been transferred, the original layer must be removed.
Now let's get down to the creative part. As an example, consider the arrangement of months, like the dial of a watch. Having selected separately each layer with months, you should select the command "Edit-> Transform-> Rotate", and select the angle of inclination required to rotate this layer. January and July require a 30 degree rotation, February and August 60, March 90. Then negative angles follow: April and October need to be rotated by -60 degrees, and May and November must be rotated by 30, September must be rotated by -90 degrees. We connect all the months with their inner corners and the impromptu calendar dial is ready.
The next step will be to decorate the calendar with a picture or photograph. To do this, you need to insert a picture into the calendar file you created. It is most convenient if the layer with the picture will be placed under the layers containing the months. Find a tool to select a fragment with an ellipse and specify - "Feather" of this function equal to "100px". Then you should select a circle that roughly matches the size of your calendar. Then choose the command "Select-> Inverse", and press the "Delete" button on your keyboard, thereby achieving the most beautiful transition from the picture to the background.
Well that's it, the calendar is ready to print. After going through a few tutorial steps, you yourself made sure that making a calendar with your own hands is quite simple.
