Up-to-date Challenge - 2022

[Linda J Walker]

I think I will use some of my flower photos.

 

Day 1, in progress.

[Cassel]

Ann, we will all travel with you!

 

Susan, creative cropping can often give a totally new outlook on photos. And with PSP2021 and 2022, you can even enlarge photos that might be otherwise, too small.

 

Anita, it would be fun if you end up combining a photo with a cute clipart on each page. That would be an interesting style!

 

Henry, I moved your post to this thread so it will be together with everyone else, and get more views. This is a fairly simple project so hopefully, you will be able to complete it.

 

Corrie, you will have your work cut out for you with three calendars! Good thing it will be easy to do

 

Minka, I have never been to Florida, so I'll travel through you.

 

Daphnee, looking forward to your pages.

 

Gerry, with PSP2022, you should be able to enlarge your photos enough and then focus on some area of the photos, like you did here.

 

Linda J., flowers will brighten our colder days.

[Guest Guest]

Can I participate in this challenge even though I have not purchased the Calendar making course; should I make my own template for layout... my budget is very tight

[Cassel]

Pirkko, this challenge is totally free, so yes, you can participate. The "paid" one was available for a 2021 calendar, for anyone who wanted to make it after the challenge was over. So you don't have to purchase it, at all!

[Guest Guest]

wonderfull :)

 

 

[MoniqueN.]

Corrie, nice to have the new furniture to look foward to. :)

 

 

 

I'm thinking of making 2 calenders. One with mills and one with more seasonal pictures, because there will be only one picture per month on the calender. :)

[Ann Seeber]

Monique: The new March and April each have 3 photos!

[MoniqueN.]

Hi Ann :)Yeah, I saw that after I downloaded the files :) I thought I read somewhere all templates would be one picture this year, but I was mistaken I guess :)

[Cassel]

The new March and April each have 3 photos!

Oops, I better check the downloads. Maybe those are from last year!

[Cassel]

Yes, it was my mistake. Can you go back and download the correct ones? Otherwise, the dates won't match 2022!

[Ann Seeber]

So here's January and February with photos. I edited January's background.

[Marie-Claire]

I did my homework from day 1 and 2 ☺

[MoniqueN.]

Here are my first 4 pages. I decided to make more calenders. This one is about our beautiful country, the Netherlands. Photo's are all taken on/at a museum terrain.

 

Text from the website: "Explore the 44-hectare museum park. The activities taking place at the museum and the craftspeople practising their crafts bring the historic buildings to life."Museum website

 

 

[Ann Seeber]

Here are my March and April. It is difficult to come up with photos with the right size and perspective!

 

In case you were wondering, my granddaughter is BIG fan of Downton Abbey (as am I ;-) ) And this is her Christmas gift.

[Guest Guest]

Here is my result for January 2022

 

the Owl you'll find here: https://unsplash.com/photos/wKbuplZNaMY

[MoniqueN.]

Loved Downton abbey too, Ann, now I know why your January picture looked so familiar :)

[Cassel]

Pirkko, I am a little puzzled. What template are you using? It looks different from the ones in the challenge.

[Guest Guest]

I just made it... I created large grid... numbers of days... and so on...

 

was it supposed to use some specific template ...?

 

i can make this look similar ... or at least try :)

 

 

[Corrie Kinkel]

Monique lovely to see the "Openlucht Museum" always worth a visit!

 

This is for calendar number 2 with the flowers. Of course I have made backgrounds for the other calendars too but they are in a similar style with gradients.

[Cassel]

Pirkko, the challenge was meant to go with the templates, so it makes things simpler. You can register here to get all the same templates. You can do something with different templates, but several tutorials will be hard to apply with something different.

[Daphne Bowyer]

Hi every one,  I am just sending in my first four pages and I am once again doing pictures of my Pomeranian's which I love and over the years I took many of them , mostly in the show ring.I shall maybe do something else on another calendar if I  can come up with some thing else , but will finish this one first with all my fur kids.

 

 

[Daphne Bowyer]

Whoops sent the wrong February pic..  here is the right one

[Susan Ewart]

Here is my pages so far.  The gradient is cool.  I would like to figure out how to get the gradient with darker on top and lighter on the bottom.  yesterday with my starter page I was able to resize after saving as a .jpeg.  Today, it wont do that.  I have "saved as"  a jpeg for the 4 months, but when I go to resize and put in 600 there is a lock (I think that's what it is) and it greys out the "ok" at the bottom so I cant click it.  It's on "by pixel" .  I am using 2021 now.  Not sure what I've done.  I went into MS Office and resized it there.  Hope it's not too large.  Nice to see so many varied and interesting calendars.

[Linda J Walker]

I had much to do today, but trying to keep pace, so I need to get busy.

 

I really don't know why my calendar grid stayed gray on January, and not February. Maybe I missed a step, or added a step? Or I tripped up somewhere. Maybe I need to try it again when I am not tired.

 

Pirkko, I want to know how you made the grid....

[Cassel]

Monique, the calendars are so easy to make that you can definitely make more than one.

 

Ann, are those going to be on the same theme? All about Downtown Abbey? (I don't follow that series).

 

Marie-Claire, I see that you used a variety of gradient types. That is interesting.

 

Corrie, beautiful flowers!

 

Daphne, those dogs must take a lot of work in grooming!

 

Susan, to change the dark/light, check in the gradient window and there is a checkbox with Invert. That will invert the two colors. For your issue with the Resize command, could you post a screenshot of the Resize window?

 

Linda, the reason your grid is grey is that you might have had the Fill tool set to something else than None, so it filled based on the area you clicked and stopped at the edge of the grid. Try it again, and set the Mode to None first.