Calendar Workshop 2025

[Ann Seeber]

10 minutes ago, Sharla said:

the frame seems to be taking the colour and texture of the background layer

Yes, I discovered that also. I've had fun experimenting with a series of background mats, etc., to control the colors.

[Ann Seeber]

6 hours ago, Julian Adams said:

I decided to make them a little darker so they'd match the golden colored bushes in the photo better.

 

I love your color sense. It really makes a difference with your calendars.

[Donna Sillia]

I finally finished October. The background is from Adobe Express just lightened a little. Photos are from David. Columbus Day clip is from Canva. I had to mark Columbus Day because I am Italian and my father would never forgive me if I called it something different. The little witch is from CF. I hope to fiinish today, but now I have to go and exercise.

Edited October 28 by Donna Sillia
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[Julian Adams]

Thank you for the compliment!  Pun intended - I play with complimentary colors a lot.  In April, I picked an image with gold in it thinking my main color would be blue since yellow and blue are complimentary.  Then I like to go slightly off from the complimentaries. Gold instead of yellow, rust instead of gold, slightly unsaturated and lighter blue than solid blue, etc.  If I used bright yellow and bright blue it would be  horrible but by sticking with that basic combination and making variations it gets interesting.  I developed these ideas when I was making computer generated fractal art.  Choosing colors was half of the process.  

[Corrie Kinkel]

18 hours ago, Cassel said:

@Julian Adams It is an interesting idea to add an image behind the dates. I am always amazed at how participants really think out of the box and show so much creativity.

@Sue Thomas I didn't know the non-capitalizing of names was common in French movie credits. I have not watched French movies in many years!

@Corrie Kinkel Once you get your calendar printed, take a picture of it, just like you did for your book. It is one thing to see the digital version, but seeing the printed project on a table is another level.

@Sharla That will make a fantastic flower calendar!

@Daniel Hess It is fun how some of the fonts match either the month or the picture!

@Donna Sillia That is a good question about the resolution. I never noticed that they were different as I created all from the same "template". When the template is 2400 pixels wide, at 200 px/inch, it means it would, in theory, print at 12 inches wide. If you go to File > Print Layout and put the image on your page, it will prompt you to resize it to fit the image because your paper is only 8.5 inches (or so). My guess is that if you send it to a print shop, they will also adjust to the size of the paper. However, if you want to do the "fix" yourself, you would go to the Resize command and select "By print size". There, change the resolution to 300 pixels/inch. You will then have to adjust the size above, to 8.5 inches wide (it will automatically adjust to 10.5 in height). I don't think it will make much difference though. I rechecked all the pages and you are right: the April, May and June ones show as 100px/inch. No idea why.

@Susan Ewart Your gradient is so subtle and beautiful!

 

Carole I'll do that, but it will take more time to finish my calendar, yesterday my mouse went broke and we didn't have a spare one anymore. I can use the touchpad  of my laptop to navigate on the screen so I can read all the entrees over here in the forum and use my email etc but scrapping with only the touchpad is a no go for me. This week I'll go to the store to buy a new one and hopefully I can find one that is suitable for my hands. In the mean time I enjoy all the fantastic calendars that are shown here.

[Mary Solaas]

I'm obviously not going to finish this workshop anytime soon, but Carole, this is my first time and it is wonderful. You suggested that we look ay the QP Workshop tuts for ways to deal with the template. I guess that's what I've actually been doing as I had done that workshop several times.

This is my April #2. The picture is one I took on a walk in our neighborhood the end of March 2020 - just before 'lockdown". Spring is always the most colorful time of year in Memphis. Fall has more muted colors, except for the sweet gum tree, the dogwood, and the bradford pear which have brighter colors. That particular year, the colors were really spectacular!

[Julian Adams]

19 minutes ago, Mary Solaas said:

I'm obviously not going to finish this workshop anytime soon, but Carole, this is my first time and it is wonderful. You suggested that we look ay the QP Workshop tuts for ways to deal with the template. I guess that's what I've actually been doing as I had done that workshop several times.

This is my April #2. The picture is one I took on a walk in our neighborhood the end of March 2020 - just before 'lockdown". Spring is always the most colorful time of year in Memphis. Fall has more muted colors, except for the sweet gum tree, the dogwood, and the bradford pear which have brighter colors. That particular year, the colors were really spectacular!

That is beautiful. 

[Dan Greenwood]

Here's my cover page.  My calendar has friend and family birthdays. This is my wife and sister. But I had a challenge: The picture cut off right above their heads. So, I cut a thin strip above them, pasted above them flipped vertically, pasted the original above that, etc. You can see the repeating images above them in the mask. I don't think the result is too strange... The font for this page is Gigi.

Edited October 28 by Dan Greenwood

[Dan Greenwood]

Here's my July page, as an example. I used the Vervelle font for the month days, because it has glyphs. These are two of my grandchildren, whose birthdays are in July. Their favorite colors are pink and green, so I faded those colors as a background.

Edited October 28 by Dan Greenwood

[Dan Greenwood]

Here's another. These are two of our sons, whose birthdays are both in December.

[Ann Seeber]

12 hours ago, Mary Solaas said:

You suggested that we look ay the QP Workshop

@Mary Solaas Check your emails as Carole sent a correction that included the correct link. Didn't intend QPs. It is actually Lesson 8 talking about shadows on these pages. Hopefully this LINK will work.

Edited October 29 by Ann Seeber

[Ann Seeber]

35 minutes ago, Dan Greenwood said:

Here's another. These are two of our sons, whose birthdays are both in December.

Nice job on all, Dan. I'm sure your family will love them!

[Donna Sillia]

Slowly getting there. Thailand pictures suit my proclivity towards gold and glitter. Red seems to be a prominent color in many of the pictures. The background is Adobe Express AI, but I did make a few adjustments. The ornate frame just called out to me for glitter. The bottom picture is of the King and Queen of Thailand with my future daughter in law in the forefront. I used the same mask that I created on a previous page.

[Mary Solaas]

This is my other April (1st set). I had to work a square pic into a rectangle.

[Dan Greenwood]

7 hours ago, Ann Seeber said:

Nice job on all, Dan. I'm sure your family will love them!

Thank you, Ann!

[Cristina]

21 hours ago, Susan Ewart said:

Wow, this is perfect.

Thank you, Susan! 🧡

[Donna Sillia]

Finally, the December calendar             I once again used Adobe Express for the background with a few adjustments. The photo is from David, and I thought it looked festive even though Christmas is not celebrated in Thailand. The bottom picture is also from David and is actually a Gay Pride festival. I merged the mask and added color to the opaque areas and then applied a bevel. The nutcracker was made by me from an Adobe Illustrator tutorial for my Build a kit 2.

I wish I could make backgrounds as beautiful as AE.

[Daniel Hess]

Almost forgot the "cover".  Here it is.

[Donna Sillia]

Cover: I used an Adobe Express creation for the picture. I created the mask using one a cass preset piping shapes and the cass raster to mask script. The background paper is a tan taken from the image.

[Corrie Kinkel]

2 hours ago, Donna Sillia said:

Cover: I used an Adobe Express creation for the picture. I created the mask using one a cass preset piping shapes and the cass raster to mask script. The background paper is a tan taken from the image.

Donna I love all those Thailand pages, each month is so vibrant, and those colors suit you perfect!

[Corrie Kinkel]

Hurrah, I'm back in business! Today I was able to go to the shop and buy a new mouse. I have all my months done and am resizing for posting. As it is almost midnight over here I will post some now and the remainder tomorrow. I didn't want the month names to overlap the masks because I know that some of the recipients of my calendar will cut the photo from the page as the month is over and use those later for  making cards. This is my 5th year of making a calendar and over the years I have used different ways of doing the date boxes, like bigger with a photo underneath, smaller with all the special days with colors or small elements, completely colored etc. I also know that the recipients do not want to write on the calendar and besides that not all the special dates are in different countries on the same date and not all have a second X-mas or Easter day. Therefore I made little mushrooms with the dates, just to have something different for this year; I only colored the weekend days differently.

[Corrie Kinkel]

And here are the next 2. I tried to have some texture on the background layers for just that little bit extra and each month has a clipart on the empty space that goes well with that month. It is time to go to sleep now, I forgot initially to include the months💤💤💤

Edited October 29 by Corrie Kinkel

[Mary Solaas]

This is my May for the 2nd set. This pic was taken at my daughter's and my favorite city park on a May day. The Memphis (Canadian) Geese were taking their youngsters out for a swim.

[Donna Sillia]

4 hours ago, Corrie Kinkel said:

Donna I love all those Thailand pages, each month is so vibrant, and those colors suit you perfect!

Thank you, Corrie. I am so glad that I chose my grandson's photos to use in these challenge. I am planning on have it printed for him and his girlfriend for a Christmas present.

[Ann Seeber]

I changed my mind about my pages ie: I moved the photo from January to the front cover since I also have another topic I want to feature for the zoo, their adventurous zipline ride and the dinosaur experience. I will make a back cover also since I need two new areas to fill. Here's my front cover.