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2015 Business Pocket Calendar

noreply@blogger.com (Gracey) — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 10:35:00 +0000

NOTE: before I get into the new (and possibly last) calendar template I want to share a little information on this blog. I've been writing this blog since 2007 (that's 7 years folks), but I have several other web efforts too, and I'm finding it tougher to keep them all running and updated. Most peeps come here for templates for calendars, so at this stage, it seems sort of redundant to keep posting here, instead of on my main site.

The main site has a host of other things for people - yes, the calendar templates are there too, but I have templates for gift tags, hanging tags, coloring pages for kids, backgrounds, textures, stock photos, photoshop brushes, photo frames and edges, picture quotes and even a blog section (with articles like selling your digital images/products, where to find free images, how to get easy white backgrounds for your photos) .... a mix of most types of things that would be useful for those wanting to create their own unique printables.

So, while this might be my last post here, you'll still be able to find all my new stuff (and most of my older stuff on Free-3D-Textures.com.

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Click HERE to Download PSD Inside
Click HERE to Download PSD Outside

This new pocket calendar design is simple and clean, with a design that lends itself to a modern business. The inner calendar pages have room for your business information and space for your logo, while the outside design leaves space for a photo of your choice (your business storefront or office building, or a staff photo ... even product imagery if that's what you want to use to promote your business), and more room for your business name and other data you want to include. For smaller businesses, including the salesperson's name below the business can instantly make these customized "business" cards. The outside-back of this template has a list of holidays/special days, along with a couple of blank lines to write on, and the front has a rounded-corner frame with space for an image and more text.

The .psd file contains layers for each of the text areas, including the month names (but not the calendar dates), and logo/photo layers. You can "un-include" some of the features (logo layer, for example) simply by deleting the undesired layer. The text in the file uses the "Corbel" font - if you have a registered copy of windows on your computer, you probably already have this font. If not, you have two options: edit the font type to one of your choice when you open the .psd, or for anyone preferring the .png plain download (below), find a complementary font that works with this one if you want to add text. Actually, there is a third option, although, I doubt most of you will actually want to purchase this font, but if you really do, Fonts.com is authorized as a seller for Microsoft Fonts - purchase Corbel here.

There are two formats available for this download. PSD files (inside and outside - download links below the photo above) if you want to be able to edit the texts (and have something that can open .psd files), or a PNG format (inside and outside) with generic text that you don't need to change. This one is really more for those just looking for a printable, ready-to-rock calendar but if you can open a .png file you can also add text to the blank areas, or "paint" over the text using a brush in your editing program and replace it with your own. I tend to produce these as .psd files because most people are going to want to edit the text areas, but I forget that not everyone might have a program that can edit them.

DOWNLOAD THE PRINT READY PNG FILES HERE

Inside Business Pocket Calendar Template (png)

Outside Business Pocket Calendar Template (png)

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2015 Promotional Style Calendar - psd file

noreply@blogger.com (Gracey) — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 17:16:00 +0000

Sample Size only - use the download
link below for the full sized .psd file

Loading up a promotional type calendar that you can customize to promote your own business or website by editing the text areas and images, and printing it as handouts. This calendar is designed with a vintage flair and includes three authentic vintage frames at the top for images or logos, and several corner design elements which can be removed if you prefer not to have them on your print.

The calendar and month texts aren't editable, however, they do sit on their own transparent layer, so you could erase or "cut" the text for the months and use your own editing program to type in months using a font you prefer.

The text at the bottom (website url, calendar title, copyright notice) can be edited, as can the text under the prints, or turned off entirely if you'd rather not have titles. The three frames are on one layer, as is the raised bottom trim, and the corner elements over the frames can be removed or left in place. Included in the .psd file is the coloured background which basically is just a new layer filled with a colour similar to the frames and using the "pattern overlay" option for the layer. You can remove the layer, or the pattern overlay, or change the colour if you want. And of course, there are layers for your own images or logos - just remove the images included before saving your calendar please.

DOWNLOAD THE .PSD FILE FOR THE PROMO VINTAGE-STYLE CALENDAR HERE.

Sorry, I know it's a short post but most of you will be used to these templates by now and probably don't need any instructions, let alone the few I've put here but I do think it helps to know what's in the file before you download it. It would be pointless for someone to download a large .psd if the it wasn't as customizable as they wanted.

2015 Pocket Calendar Templates - Single and Double

noreply@blogger.com (Gracey) — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 13:08:00 +0000

Sample ONLY
Please download at links below

Today we've got two pocket calendar templates you can download and edit for your own uses. One is a folding pocket calendar allowing for full year to be spread out over the left and right sides of the inside, with your image or design on the front and a lined section for notes on the back. The single pocket calendar allows for image and text on the front, and a full year calendar on the back.

The folding pocket calendar includes space to change the image (use one of your own, or a simple texture if you prefer). Over the image sits a gray frame with a vermilion red banner sporting gray text. You can leave the framing in place, or remove it by turning off the layer. The text is editable so you change the font style, colour and text to that of your own choice. In the upper right, is a leaf and swirl design (photoshop brush from Lileya on Deviant Art) which you can also remove by turning off the visibility layers. To change the colours of framing and design elements, select the element colour with the magic wand in your editing program, and use the paint bucket to fill it with the colour of your choice. The inside of the .psd template has the 2015 calendar in dark gray text on white background, and the year and text heading on each side can be edited (all text except the calendar itself are editable in the template).

DOWNLOAD LINKS

Fall Folding Pocket Calendar Template (PSD FORMAT) - Outside

Fall Folding Pocket Calendar Template (PSD FORMAT) - Inside

If you just want to print the .jpg version:

Printable Calendar 2015 Fall Design - Outside (.jpg)

Printable Calendar 2015 Fall Design - Inside (.jpg)

PLEASE ALSO NOTE: Two additional calendar designs have been uploaded to Free-3D-Textures.com. A vintage style folding pocket calendar with 2016 on the back, and a single (non-folding) pocket calendar with a promotional purpose. Visit the Calendar Templates page for these two different designs and .psd files.

The single pocket calendar template offered here has been designed with the 2015 wedding in mind. It can be used as a favour (replace the wedding photo with an engagement photo), or be included in thank you cards after the wedding (in which case, you can use a wedding photo). The framing over the photo is one of our previous frame templates, and is the hand-painted version, but if you download the template pack the frame is available in several different solid colours if you want to try and match your colours. All the text except the calendar can be edited to your choice of front and colour (and of course your own dates or thank yous).

To change the colour of the calendar text to match your own theme is fairly simple. Create a new layer above the calendar portion in the template. Fill the layer with your colour choice and use one of the layer blending options to "re-colour" the text (overlay usually works best, but you can select several until you find the one that gives you the result you want). Note that you can also use these as favours for a special event like a milestone anniversary party, a birth or Christening or pretty much any other big event you want to remember, or thank people for attending. Other styles of photo frames are available at Free-3D-Textures, and on this blog under the Frame Index page.

DOWNLOAD LINKS

2015 FOLDING POCKET WEDDING CALENDAR - Front (PSD Template)

2015 FOLDING POCKET WEDDING CALENDAR - Back (PSD Template)

2015 Vintage Calendar

noreply@blogger.com (Gracey) — Sun, 13 Jul 2014 14:28:00 +0000

Sample Size ONLY
Download Full Size Here

Here's the first of my 2015 yearly calendars. This first one is a simple .jpg file (quite large, so the download may take a while). It has an authentic vintage paper design for the background (scanned from the inside of an old victorian book), some design elements from Lileya on Deviant art (phtoshop brushes), and near the top between the two designs is enough space for the user to overlay a photo (or series of small photos) of their own, or a text header of your own choice. Because of the shape of the space (long and narrow), a good choice would be panorama style image.

Keep in mind that although it's a .jpg file and can be opened in any image editing program, if you plan to use or add your own photos/text in the space provided, you will have much more control over their placement if you have an editing program that supports layers.

The calendar design stands on it's own, so if all you want is a printable calendar, you can also print this one "as is".

I also have a plain 2015 calendar (the one used on this design) in .png format with a transparent background if you want to overlay the calendar on a design or image of your own. You will need a program (like photoshop, or gimp) that supports layers in order to use that. The file for this .png can be found on the calendar templates page (under "Photoshop Bits" in the menu) on Free-3D-Textures.

3-Yr Folding Calendar Template for 2013, 2014, and 2015

noreply@blogger.com (Gracey) — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 10:41:00 +0000

Up next in the calendar template line up is a 3-year folding calendar beginning with 2013 and going forward to 2015. This calendar template has a different top design than each of the previous 3-year calendars, but the package has one other difference. The .psd file contains the calendar framework (the basic design) in a multitude of colours, allowing the user to easily choose which colour outline they want to use. The three calendars can't be edited - the text is basic black and dark navy, suitable for use with almost any colour framework you decide to use. Some of the text included in the .psd can be edited using the text function in photoshop - the year can be changed (colour and font, since I can't imagine why you'd want to change the actual year), as can the text along the bottom of the calendar. The lower section can include any sort of text you want: promote your business or website, list your copyright or simply place a fun or spiritual message by changing the text. What's included in the template pack are just the basics: the framework in 20 different colours (+ black); the three background calendars; individual text layers for the three spaces at the bottom and the three year numbers at the top (download link at the end of the post). The colours included in this pack are:

Black
Gray
Navy
Red
Moss Green
Dark Green
Lime Green
Golden Yellow
Tan
Brown
Blue
Sky Blue
Turquoise
Light Acqua
Dark Acqua
Purple
Dark Purple
Fuschia
Baby Pink
Hot Pink
Light Burgundy

To spice up the calendar design, or make it fun and playful you can add layers with your own design elements using photoshop brushes or custom shapes; you can ad texture to the framework; place an image under the calendar and set the layer blend method to "multiply" or "screen" (depending on the image or results you want). There are many ways you can use the basic calendar template, or the framework, to suit your own taste and style. Just as an example of alternate uses, the framework itself with no calendar can be used to hold photos, rather than the calendars, turning it into a photo-frame template.

In the examples shown here (and they are just sample size, not print size - the template size is 5100 pixels in width) you can see the adjustments made to the colours or design elements create calendars with an entirely different feel. The basic black and white is given a touch with a couple of photoshop brushes, and you have added just a little design interest to a very plain and business-like calendar. The green and brown calendar was given an underlying texture image (from Free-3D-Textures . com) and the calendar layers set to "multiply", the text style was changed slightly from Cooper to Elephant and the layer style given a drop shadow and bevelled edge, and the colour was changed to a mossy green; the added elements under the year are just photoshop brushes.

Use your own imagination to create multiple calendars or frames from this one .psd package - if you can imagine it, you can do it!

Download the photoshop .psd file for the 3-year folding calendar template (2013 to 2105) here.

2014 Folding Pocket Calendar Templates in .PSD for Photoshop

noreply@blogger.com (Gracey) — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 10:59:00 +0000

Here's two new folding pocket calendar templates for 2014. These two templates are designed with banners to promote your own town or city (and could be good for promoting a travel or tourism website or business), but because the text over each banner can be edited, you could also use this to promote an individual event, or your own business; used as wedding favours or ... well, whatever purpose you want to make of them. (Download links for both calendars can be found at the bottom of the post. These templates are available as .psd files only.)

On the navy blue calendar, the angled banner at the top and the straight banner across the bottom can be removed by turning off the layers that contain them, so if you don't want to use any banners at all, you don't have to. The burgundy calendar has an arched banner that is part of the frame itself, so you can't remove it as easily, but you also don't have to place text on it either. You can use other design elements on the arched area if you want something there, or you can simply leave it blank. To add design elements, simply add a new layer above the banner and have fun with photoshop brushes, or patterns, or add your own clipart. The two examples shown below use the same burgundy frame without text - on one version photoshop brushes added some different designs, and on the other, a simple pattern overlay (available using photoshop layer effects) added a different feeling altogether.

Once you have the basic frame design, you can edit it to suit each different photo you want to use, or you can even omit the photo, add a solid colour background or any sort of background you choose, and use simple text to get your message across.

Download the .psd template file for the OUTSIDE of the Navy Blue Calendar (shown above) here.
Download the .psd template file for the INSIDE of the Navy Blue Calendar here.

Download the template for the Burgundy Calendar in .psd format here: OUTSIDE Template and INSIDE Template

Photo Frame Template Series

noreply@blogger.com (Gracey) — Wed, 07 Aug 2013 20:43:00 +0000

Download this Hand-Coloured Frame here.

I've been fudging around a little this last week or two trying to decide ... "what's next?" and ended up working on a couple of frames. I haven't uploaded any photo frame templates for a while, so I guess it's about time. There are two different styles of frame today, but each style has six different colour choices available, and you'll need to download all of the frames in two separate compressed files (download links below). The square frames are in one file, the floral frames in another (six in each). There is one special frame available for individual download.

This Vintage Floral Frame was created using the basic "Pewter Frame" in the Floral Frame pack. The frame itself really isn't all that vintage - about 5 or 6 years old, but the technique used to hand-colour this frame gives it a soft vintage feeling that would look good on any old black and white photo.

The Floral Frame pack includes the basic pewter frame, and there is at least one other frame colour in the pack that can be used as a starting point for hand-colouring your own frame - the one in bronze works too. So, how do you go about doing the colouring? That part is actually fairly simple, it just takes a little time and patience, but I think even a beginning photoshop user can do this, since it really only uses mostly the brush tool, and some layers.

DOWNLOAD the Square Pack of Frame Templates (shown below) in .ZIP file here, OR, in .RAR file here.

DOWNLOAD the pack of Floral Frame Templates (shown below) in .ZIP file here, OR, in .RAR file here.

I guess that's pretty much for today. Happy colouring, y'all.

2014 Promotional Calendar Template (PSD)

noreply@blogger.com (Gracey) — Sun, 28 Jul 2013 19:19:00 +0000

Next up is a 2014 yearly calendar designed mostly for promotional use - for just about any size or type of business. A great way to keep your business in front of clients and prospective clients is by providing a free calendar with your business logo and information on it.

This calendar template is available in .psd format and contains the background layer (the actual calendar); with square black frames on separate layers - one for the top space to display your business logo or banner, or typed information; three across the bottom. Two of these bottom boxes were designed for photos (3 X 2 roughly), while one contains lines for writing notes, dates, or phone numbers (the lines are on a separate layer in case you want to remove them). Each frame layer has a blank layer below for you to insert you own choice of photos, or if you prefer not to include photos, then ... well, whatever you want to fill the boxes with. If you don't want the boxes at all, you can delete the layers or turn off the visibility before flattening the file. As well as the space at the bottom right, below each month are two lines for adding notes or dates.

Just because I designed this for promotional use, that doesn't mean you have to use it that way. You can fill all the frames with family memories, which makes a nice gift for any occasion. Don't forget to add the family birthdays, anniversaries and special events on the lines provided!

DOWNLOAD THE PSD FILE HERE

If you just want to download my sample image in a high-resolution printable format .jpg (can't imagine why you'd want it, but ...) USE THIS LINK.

2014 Yearly Calendar Templates

noreply@blogger.com (Gracey) — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 15:00:00 +0000

DOWNLOAD the plain black and white
calendar in .PNG format.

Once again it is time to start considering new calendar templates for the next year - in this case, we're beginning to work on our 2014 calendar templates, and are starting off with some basic yearly calendars. We have three calendars in various formats today. Each of the calendar designs use the basic 2014 yearly calendar (in black and white), which is available in two formats: as .png file with a transparent background for using over your own images or backgrounds, and as a photoshop brush (available from Free-3D-Textures.com Photoshop Brushes). If you simply want it on a white background, open the .png file and save it as a .jpg file. The photoshop brush allows you to use the calendar in a variety of ways just like the .png file, but with the photoshop brush, you can select your colour and change it from design to design simply by choosing the paint colour for the brush, or resize the calendar by changing the bush size.

DOWNLOAD the Vintage Calendar
Map in .PNG format.

The second 2014 yearly calendar has white text over a darker background composed of a vintage map (from public domain maps) and edited in photoshop to have torn and burned edged, and some dark cracks. Additional "grunginess" was also added before placing the calendar over the map. The outside edges of this calendar are transparent, giving users the option of printing it with their own background colour or patterns, or using it over another image, or within a collage. Public domain maps can provide useful old images for editing into some of your own projects and can make some wonderful background textures.

DOWNLOAD the Vintage Photo Frame
with Calendar in .PSD format.

The last calendar for 2014 is used within a vintage photo frame, with space to the right of the calendar to insert your own photo memory. The frame itself comes from a vintage 1930s photo, and none of the original condition has been edited out, so the frame contains it's own cracks, tears, marks, spots and aging, and no new grunge has been added. It seemed to me this frame contained more than enough of it's own unique vintage charm to be left alone. This file, unfortunately, is currently only available as a .psd file for photoshop. There are three layers: the frame with calendar and dividing line; the vintage background texture (included in the file, but you can replace this with your own if you wish); and a layer to insert your photo on.

As well, the original vintage frame is available in .png format by itself for use as a photo frame. Any image editing software that accepts transparent file formats (like the .png) should be able to use this photoshop frame.

DOWNLOAD the Vintage Photo Frame in .PNG format.

I must apologize at this point for the lack of recent updates. The events of the last six months (still continuing) have taken up most of my time, leaving me very little time to create new work.

Photoshop Brushes with Textures

noreply@blogger.com (Gracey) — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:27:00 +0000

Today I have something a little different for you. I've been busy creating some new Photoshop Brushes with some new textures. I have a tendency to use brushes more as overlay textures for adding texture to images and collages, and I find it easier to keep them in brush format because they're easier to find and load that full image files, and because you can select the colour you want to use for a brush, it's also easier to get the colours right than having to change a colour in an image file and it keeps your file sizes a little smaller than adding full images. A few of the brushes are bundled with 2 or 3 brushes in the set, but most are individual .abr files. Although these were created in Photoshop (CS5), almost any image editor that will accept an .abr file can make use of these too. All of these brushes are uploaded and ready for download, but you'll need to get them from Free-3D-Textures.com in the Photoshop Brush Section (all of these are on Page 3). For any whose sort of new to Photoshop, in order to install these brushes you simply drop them into your photoshop program files (usually found in C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS5\Presets\Brushes). The next time you open Photoshop, the brushes should be in the brush listing.

The first couple of brushes were created from a high-resolution photo of wood barks (2 different types). You'll note in the image below I've included a sample photo showing one of the brushes used an overlay to add interest and texture to a simple photo of a plant and vase:

The above image uses the WoodBark-2 Photoshop Brush in two colours to create the texture you see in the photo, and below you can see an example of WoodBark-1.

Other brushes included in the new batch are foamy waters (2 brushes); mortared stone (2 brushes); veined granite (2 brushes); textured bricks (3 brushes); streaks and rivets; leafy ground cover; and last (but not least) a blank monthly calendar grid you can use for making your own calendars.

Foamy Water, Mortared Stone, Veined Granite - Photoshop Brushes

Streaks and Rivets, and Textured Bricks

Leafy Ground Cover - in the above example photo, the brush has been added over just the lake giving a mottled appearance to the water.

Photoshop Brush - Blank Calendar Grid

DOWNLOAD THESE BRUSHES FROM

FREE-3D-TEXTURES.COM (Photoshop Brushes Section)

Okay ... that's it for today. Happy editing folks!

2013 Pocket Calendar and 3-Part Folding Calendar

noreply@blogger.com (Gracey) — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 17:21:00 +0000

There's been a lot of strange stuff going on in my little world over the past few months. One of the reasons I haven't been updating as often as normal. Family is having health issues - pretty serious in fact - and I'm spending most of my time at the hospital these days with my husband. I suppose making new calendar templates/designs is really the last thing on my mind right now, so I'm not sure how fast I'll be updating calendars over the next few months. It is going to depend on how much time I spend at the different hospitals.

Right before all of that started I had begun some design work on a couple of new calendars; a single pocket calendar, and a tri-fold 3 year calendar standing calendar for use on a desk or shelf. I finally managed to get these completed and uploaded, so while I had a few spare minutes I thought I'd write a short post and release these before it's too late. The single-pocket calendar is for 2013, so it's a tiny bit late, but we still have most of 2013 to go so it could still be useful. The tri-fold calendar has three years, beginning with 2013 and going to 2015, so it's still going to be time-appropriate.

The .psd files allow you to put your own photo on the front of the single-pocket, and allow for changing the colour of the frame design and year text in the tri-fold. These aren't complicated files, since the calendar dates aren't editable.

Pocket Calendar Front

Pocket Calendar Back

This is the design for the front of the single pocket calendar. I chose a vintage newspaper from our family history records and scanned that in as the background. The I used one of my dad's old photos of a vintage car. You can keep that in place if you like it, or you can replace the backgrounds with something of your own. In the .psd file, the business title, tag line, and other text can all be edited, so you can put your own business name, or whatever else you want, and it includes both the back and front of the calendar, rather than having two separate files. Just as a note of interest - the newspaper was an article on President Kennedy from the 1960s. The back of the calendar has a yearly calendar, and some blank lines for writing numbers or small reminder notes for the user. Download the .psd file for this single-pocket calendar here.

The tri-fold calendar is fairly basic - navy blue outlines with an open swirled frame around the year (by the way, this open frame has been created as a free photoshop brush, which you can download from the PS Brushes section on Free-3D-Textures.com). The colour outlines and frames are also available in red, black and apple green in the .psd file (you can change the colour of this framework using the "replace colour" option in photoshop). The calendars are black, navy and red, so the basic calendar will work well with any of those colours in the framework. You can download the .psd file here.

2013-2014-2015 Tri-fold Standing Calendar

Updating the Alt Text Tutorial

noreply@blogger.com (Gracey) — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 20:56:00 +0000

January 2014 - Still Another (BETTER!) Update to Alt Text.

Blogger has finally "got with the program" and updated how to insert alt text into your uploaded images - and, it also works for images you insert directly from a URL (like a photo storage site).

Once you've uploaded the image into your blog post, click on the image to get the settings or parameters for your images - whether you want it centered, placed to the left or to the right; whether you want the image small, medium, large or in it's original size (bad choice for very large images), and whether or not you want to add a caption to the image. These options have existed for quite a while, but there is a new option available called "properties". This is what you want to use to insert your Alt Text, as well as your image title tag.

When you click the properties button another text box opens up where you type the title of the image, and the alt text description for the image. Much easier than going back into the html of your post. As far as I can tell, this also works on previously upload images (ie: images you uploaded before this function became available), so now would be the time to start going back through your posts and editing the images.

June 15th, 2011 - ANOTHER UPDATE TO THE ALT TEXT!

It seems that each time blogger tries to make something better - like the dashboard and image uploading functions, they change something else. The newer blogger interfaces and image uploaders will create a problem now if you don't place your alt text for images in the exact spot it should be in. I discovered by accident that if I placed my Alt Text tags anywhere else in the image codes, my images would disappear when I switched back to the "Compose" view.

Below is an image code from this week (June 2011) - in this example you'll see the alt text code I've added marked in white text. It must be placed directly before the "img border" code, and you must add all of the code for the alt text tags yourself (ie: img alt="the description of your image"). Blogger's code currently doesn't give you this - at least not in any of my recent images.

I don't know why blogger can't get this simple thing right. Why can't they give us a place to add the alt text during the upload function? Most other blog platforms already have this. Blogger is way behind in providing user functionality when it comes to images and video uploads.

They also aren't so great at complying with current web standards, and the move to html5 might make them fall behind even worse than they are.

Currently, blogger also doesn't comply with Section 508 Standards (accessibility) and things that have been deprecated a long time ago, are still being used in blogger - such as "bold" instead of "strong".

---------------END OF UPDATE-----------------

A while back I wrote an article on how to use ALT TEXT tags for your images on blogger. Recently I've received a couple of comments about the updated blogger dashboard - the new dashboard uses a different method for image uploads, and the empty "alt text" tags are no longer showing in the html portion of the image uploads.

One such question:

Lindsey said...: I don't know how it's possible, but in html mode, my images don't have the alt section in order to add text! What do you suggest?

How it's possible is probably because you are using the new dashboard, as opposed to the old style one. There are two ways to get around this - add the alt text tags yourself into the html of the image code yourself, or switch back to the old method. You can switch back to the old method by accessing your "settings" tab, and scrolling down the page to "global settings" - there should be a radio button to select the old or new dashboard.

Putting the required code into your new image code isn't that tough though. Simply click the edit html tab on your dashboard and find the code for your image.

Your image code will have two parts - the first one will look something like the following code, so simply insert the code alt="" as indicated in the sample below:

2013 - A Vintage Calendar Template with Photo Insert

noreply@blogger.com (Gracey) — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 17:55:00 +0000

Download this .png 2013 Calendar Template for Photoshop Here

As promised in my last post, I've been working up two new calendar templates for 2013 that have a similar design-style and vintage feeling. The basis for these two templates is also an old fold-over cardboard photo-frame (circa 1940s). Both of my parents had numerous family photos from their early years that came in (and were stored) these old cardboard frames. I've found them to be an invaluable source for digital framing, but also for other uses, such as these calendar templates. Unlike today's cardstock-frames, these old ones are quite textured (instead of smooth), and that texture carries over into the inside covers, and the backs, making them a good source for textures too.

If you have some of your own family's old frames, they're easy to turn into other uses digitally. Use a high quality scanner and scan the frames (open the fold-over cover if they have one). You can scan them without removing the photos if you prefer not to. Scan them at the highest rate your scanner has (600 dpi/48 bit is usually what I use) and at twice the size of the original. You won't be using the final image at that size, but scanning it larger makes it easier to clean up any marks and tears (if you choose to - if I'm planning to use it for a vintage or grunge design, I don't clean up all the marks) you want to remove, and then you can reset the resolution and resize it for your needs in photoshop. If you are familiar with editing, then you can use the pen tool to remove the picture (if you didn't before scanning) so you can replace it with your own. A very quick recap for creating a .png file using the pen tool to remove part of the background - in PS duplicate the background layer (which would be your scanned frame) and on the duplicated layer, remove the photo (see our pen tool tutorial). Now delete the background layer. You'll see what you're left with is the top layer with a transparent spot where the old photo was. Now save your frame as a .png file to retain that transparent space.

Download this 2013 Yearly Calendar Template in PNG Format for Photoshop Here

Both of the calendar templates today were created from the same standard frame with a square opening and narrower sides than the ones previously posted. The first of the calendar templates uses a background for the frame of a vintage-style fabric in black, white and blue, and some photoshop brushes that are handwritten text (see below for sources). The second design also uses a fabric background that may not actually be vintage, but has a very vintage feeling (1950s perhaps), then overlaid with postage stamp brushes and some floral brushes (also see below for sources).

Sources for the elements:

Calendar with Black and Blue Vintage fabric design:

Fabric photo from jdurham @ MorgueFile

Handwriting/Text brushes: these are my own and while they aren't available yet, they will eventually be offered on Free-3D-Textures in the brushes section.

Calendar with Stamps and Flowers design:

Fabric photo from msxo @ MorgueFile

Stamp Brushes: my own (available soon)

Large Daisy: my own

Small Daisies, flower bouquet and line art flower from "sleepwalkerfish" @ DeviantArt

Both morgueFile and Deviant Art are excellent sources for some free elements to use in your own work. If you haven't also tried Renderosity, then you may want to have a look there as well. In all cases, make sure you use only that which is offered freely, and that you follow the requests of the creatives and keep your uses within the licensing terms.

2013 Yearly Calendar Photo Template

noreply@blogger.com (Gracey) — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 20:02:00 +0000

Vintage Art Deco Calendar

As we move on into Autumn the weather is becoming cooler, and a lot wetter, bringing with it thoughts of new calendar projects for 2013. Looking at some of the popular downloads from previous years I realized that a couple of the "often downloaded" files are both based on the same template. The vintage calendar photo template for 2011 got a lot of downloads, so I decided to update it for 2011, recreated with two different versions. The original design is from an old (1930s) photo frame - one of those heavy cardboard frames that came from studios when you had your portraits done. They had the photo on the inside with a fold-over cover to protect it. This one is simply turned on it's side so the inside of the fold-over cover is on the bottom, making space for a yearly calendar to fit there.

I've got a couple of other designs in mind based off this one, but ... well maybe I'll save that for early November. I just wanted to get these two posted up to give people time to get them done before the new year arrives. Both of these are just available in transparent PNG format (download links at the bottom of the page), with a space at the top where you can insert your own photo, graphic or text if that's what you want. The first is the basic calendar from 2011 with it's original art-deco framing around the photo space and an updated calendar at the bottom. On the second option I replaced the standard art deco frame with a design that encompasses another frame style, stamps, maps and parcel stickers, a little grunge for the messy background and some ribbon and floral details around the frame. This second one is a little fussier than I like when making frames, but in the end, I decided I liked the design and so I've posted up in case anyone else wants it too. The display examples I've used here (not suitable for printing so please don't try to download them) show and original old photo (in the art deco frame), and modern digital photo given a brown toning, so you can see that both of these frames will work well with old vintage images, or brand new digital images.

Vintage Floral Grunge Calendar

DOWNLOAD the Vintage Art Deco PNG File here.

DOWNLOAD the Vintage Floral Grunge PNG File here.

Thanks to Lileya for the
Floral Brushes Used on Frame 2, Courtesy of Lileya at Deviant Art
NOTE: If you use her brushes, please follow her Terms of Use - really simple, just credit her!

2013 Coloring Calendar for Kids

noreply@blogger.com (Gracey) — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 18:46:00 +0000

We're getting pretty close to the new school year, so I thought it was just about time to put out our new calendar for 2013 for kids. Although this isn't a "school calendar", thinking about the kids getting ready to go back to school (or head to school for their very first time) made me realize that I hadn't yet finished the kid's calendar for next year.

Although these kid's calendars look pretty simple, they sometimes involve a lot more work than normal calendar templates because of the hand-draw graphics included on them. Many of the graphics are drawn with a brush in photoshop (by me), but some of them are from free photoshop shapes found across the web. Using those means trying to research where they originally came from to ensure they are okay to use, so as often as I can, I use my own drawings for these. Trying to create new drawings for each year takes more time than just designing a plain template.

This year, the calendar comes in four parts - three months on four different pages (quarterly). If you have access to a printer that will use a roll of paper instead of individual sheets, you can print all four pages on one long sheet (or have it printed at a print shop). If you don't, you can print each page individually and use a hole punch to punch holes in the bottoms and tops (four holes should hold the parts securely) and tie the four sections together with colored ribbons or carabiners, or any fasteners that your creative mind can come up with.

The pages are designed to print at 17" wide by 11" high, making the calendar pages big enough to be useful as a calendar, and easy enough for even little hands to colour. The four pages are included in the zip or rar file - make sure you download the correct format for your computer. These are not available as .png templates or .psd files. The four pages are print-ready .jpg files. The sample file at left shows some of the designs already colored, but the printable download files are just black and white, ready for kids to color. The months are surrounded by a double-line border giving the kids the opportunity or choice to color around the calendars if they like.

DOWNLOAD THE 2013 KIDS COLORING CALENDAR IN .ZIP FILE HERE

DOWNLOAD THE 2013 KIDS COLORING CALENDAR IN .RAR FILE HERE

Here's a small-sized preview of one of the non-colored pages:

2013 Pocket Calendar Template

noreply@blogger.com (Gracey) — Fri, 11 May 2012 10:35:00 +0000

This single pocket calendar template for photoshop is designed to print at 4 X 6 inches, but if you actually need this to fit into a shirt pocket or small wallet, you can size your ready-to-print design down to the correct size using photoshop. The .psd template file contains the designs for both the front and the back of the calendar. Replace the images with your own, and replace the text to reflect your own business or website and get ready to print.

This design shows two images on the front, but if you have a single vertical image, you can use only one instead of the two - just make sure your text (if you use it) is readable over the image you've used. If necessary, you can add a layer under the text with a solid colour band to make your text stand out.

The back of this calendar has a text layer that matches the beige background of the front, but both of these backgrounds can be changed or removed in the .psd file. You can use your own textured background or simply use a plain white or black background. If using these as a free give-away to promote your own business, then you would be wise to match the design to your own business branding. For portrait photographer's, this would be a useful bonus to give with a portrait print, using the client's own portrait on the front; for sports photographer's who do local team sports, what better than to include one with your sports package for the coach, or the team sponsor?

DOWNLOAD THE .PSD TEMPLATE FILE FROM THIS LINK.

2013 Folding Pocket Calendar Template

noreply@blogger.com (Gracey) — Sat, 05 May 2012 21:01:00 +0000

So - here we are not even half way through the year yet and we are focusing on 2013 calendars. Why? Probably because most of the beginning photographer's who used to read my tutorials aren't beginner's any more, and no longer really need beginner tutorials. What visitors really seem to want when they come here are various templates - mostly calendars. While I do intend to keep producing other templates for nifty things like photo envelopes, seed packets and gift tags, getting the calendar templates done earlier in the year gives my user's a lot more time to get their own printed calendar designs ready.

The next up on my to-do list was the folding pocket calendar, which is one of my second most popular templates. The new one is updated with 2013 calendars on the inside, and a "lined paper" background on the outside-back which gives room to add notes, names and numbers, dates to remember or whatever else the recipient wants to add to it. A handy space where someone can write down an important number or date could turn out to be a pretty useful addition to the back of a yearly calendar.

The psd file for the inside of the calendar allows you to edit the two main titles (2013 Calendar and the business name); allows you to remove the narrow black dividing lines and allows you to remove the black background behind the main titles, or make it a colour other than black. The psd file for the outside allows you to replace the front image.

Download the .psd file for the Inside of the Pocket Calendar Template here.

Download the .psd file for the Outside of the Pocket Calendar Template here.

If you just want a printable calendar, you can download the one I created as a sample - download the printable calendars below.

Download the Inside of the Printable Calendar Here.

Download the Outside of the Printable Calendar Here.

The image on the front of this calendar is compiled of three separate images, plus a border. Two images (the teapot and fancy glass bottles) are my own. The flowers in vase is a free image from Emily Rosely (mensatic) at morgueFile (used with permission). You can visit Emily at morgueFile, or at her own website, Emily's Imagery.

As well as this printable pocket calendar, there is a matching Mother's Day card for this - print the calendar and tuck it inside your greeting card.

Card available from Zazzle

2013 Yearly Calendar Template for Photoshop

noreply@blogger.com (Gracey) — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 13:28:00 +0000

PLEASE NOTE: all download links for the templates and calendars are at the bottom of the page. The small images are just sample-sized, not printable sizes.

2013 Yearly Calendar Template
"Golden Deco"

Here it is - a 2013 yearly calendar template (basic one page design) for photoshop. Yes, okay peeps, I know this is way early for next year, but I've had a couple of requests for one already and figured it wouldn't hurt to post at least one now and get a little ahead of the game.

This is a basic one page calendar with a simple horizontal and vertical arrangement of the months. This template is available in a couple of formats - there is a .psd file for photoshop (this is a very large download), or in a transparent .png file with just the grids, months, and dates on it and no design work (so you can place it over your own background, or use it on a white one. There's also a couple of printable calendars you can use for yourself in .jpg format if you just want one to print. You'll find those, along with their download links below.

2013 Yearly Calendar
"Pink Swirl"

The .psd file is quite large, so it may take a while to download. The file contains a number of layer arrangements, sorted into groups for manageability. All of the numbers and the month headings are in "text" folders for each month. These texts can be edited in photoshop to change the colour or style. The grids are in another group folder, three-across on each layer. The year is on it's own layer and can be edited in photoshop as well. Each of the design elements is also on it's own layer in the Design Elements folder, so you can use multiple design elements in your calendar, or use none of them and create your own, or use photos and images instead. Two backgrounds are included (mauve abstract and an elegant beige). The mauve abstract background has been used in the "Green" calendar below - and yes, I know it's green, but it's only green because I selected a different blending method for the layer, changing the colour from purple to green. The colours of the design element layers will change as well, when selecting different blending modes for the layers. For example, on the Green calendar you'll note some charcoal coloured beads - these beads are actually green, but selecting "difference" for the blending mode gives them this blackish colour. Most of the design elements have been created by using one or more photoshop brushes. Most of these are free brushes that have come from various sources, so you may obtain these brushes by visiting the sites of those designers.

Please be sure that you do read and follow these designers' licensing terms. These folks go to a lot of trouble to create some awesome brushes for free. (Whenever you download any free offerings from anywhere, make sure you check the usage terms before you use them.)

The text used in this calendar template is "Padaloma". If you don't have it in your fonts folder already, you will need to change the fonts when you open the template. If you'd like to keep the current font style, you can download the Padaloma font free from Urban Fonts, or 1001 Fonts, or from Fontzone.

Remember that you will need to install any new fonts or photoshop brushes before opening photoshop in order for them to register in your program.

DOWNLOAD THE 2013 CALENDAR TEMPLATE IN .PSD FORMAT HERE

DOWNLOAD THE 2013 CALENDAR TEMPLATE IN .PNG FORMAT HERE

DOWNLOAD the "Golden Deco" Calendar in Printable Size (.jpg format) here.

DOWNLOAD the "Green" Calendar in Printable Size (.jpg format) here.

DOWNLOAD the "Grasses" Calendar in Printable Size (.jpg format) here.

DOWNLOAD the "Pink Swirl" Calendar in Printable Size (.jpg format) here.

2013 Yearly Calendar
"Grasses"

2013 Yearly Calendar
"Green"

Keeping Your Photography Business Alive

noreply@blogger.com (Gracey) — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 21:23:00 +0000

Or -

Getting Started in Professional Photography - How to Do it the Wrong Way

Kind of a funny title isn't it? Usually we don't approach subjects like this from the negative, but the positive, such as "how to do it right". But I really wanted to bring attention to the fact that making a small mistake (or what you think is a small mistake) when promoting your photography business can backfire on you, and you can kill your business dead before it ever gets started.

I don't very often write about this kind of thing, but it crossed my path this morning on seeing a post from a photographer I've sort of known for years - he and his wife have managed to grow their photo opportunities from micro-stock "getting started portfolios" to a large and growing commercial business. They did it the hard way - good old fashioned hard work, trial and error, honesty and well, just being great at what they do. If you want to learn a few things, they offer some online tutorials, and training - you can visit them at "Shoots"

Sean's Photo

He'd discovered one of his stock images in another photographer's portfolio. And before anyone asks, no, they didn't use the image without permission, they bought a stock license to use it for advertising.

Whether or not using it as your own in your portfolio is considered advertising or not is something else - I'm not sure this is the kind of advertising you'd expect someone to use it for. Once word got around (as it always does), at least one other friend from my microstock days noticed one of her images in the portfolio of this photographer.

Right away you begin to wonder just how many of the photos in her own portfolio are, well, really her own?

So my peeps, here's the thing. THIS is not the way to start your business, nor is it the way to advertise your business. Think about this for a few minutes. Here you are, reading my post and I can just bet you are aghast at the obvious faux pas here. When you are trying to prove how good you are as a professional photographer, you DO NOT use other people's work as your own. You do not misrepresent advertising images as your own photos. The entire point of having a website for a photographer is to showcase their work, and if you are getting into photography, you better have some work worth showing to your potential clients. If you don't, then you shouldn't be showing them anything.

If you don't have enough work of your own, then show what you do have - it doesn't matter if you have six or eight or two hundred. Your potential clients want to see what YOU can do ... not what some other great photographer can do.

Promote your work professionally - be honest in all your dealings with your clients, and your potential clients. After all, your business is on the line. This girl made one of the biggest mistakes of all - she forgot that integrity makes the business grow and survive. Engendering a lack of trust from your clients is not a good way to get started, so when you decide to make the jump to set up your own business (small or otherwise), remember to do it the right way.

Gift Card & Calendar Template - New for 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Gracey) — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:14:00 +0000

Okay folks, back to work on some templates for you. This new template is for a greeting card that will hold a purchased gift card. Since most gift cards are about the same size, you can use this card template for pretty much any sort of gift card. While some gift cards actually come with a little envelope for giving the card in, this template can act as both a greeting card, and a special, customized card for giving the gift card in. Anyone who prefers to give a custom card along with their gift might find this kind of fun.

As well, anybody running their own small photography business on the side might find this a useful template to give your own gift cards to repeat customers, or clients who've spent a lot of money on your prints or services. Once you've customized the card with your own logo and designs, you could (if you have the money to spend) send them off to a print-shop and have them professionally printed. You can also purchase customized gift cards online, or print your own on card stock to fit in the slot in the card template. There are times when it is worth saying "thanks" to a good customer - giving them a gift card for a free 8 X 10 print, or a set of 10 Christmas Card prints for free isn't going to cost you much (in terms of money), and can provide a lot of "good will" to your existing clients, bringing them back to your business when they need another portrait, or commercial job done.

And, for anyone at all who just likes to print their own specialized greeting cards, this will work for any occasion. You can use it to give gift cards for birthdays, Christmas, Mother's or Father's day - even Easter. The template is simple - insert your own image or design on the two "design sections", including text if you want text. Turn off the layers that contain the bleed and fold lines, and instructional layers. Flatten the image and then print it. Unfortunately, this template file is only available in .psd format, so you will need photoshop, or a program that will open photoshop files.

DOWNLOAD THE .PSD FILE FOR THE GIFT-CARD TEMPLATE HERE BY CLICKING THIS LINK.

On one of the cards I printed as an example, I inserted a small calendar on the short-fold flap. If you decide to use a calendar on that flap, you could include your business name and contact here as well. To make it even more useful as a promotional tool, run a dressmaker's Transfer Wheel (a small tool with a spiked edge) along the folded edge to create a perforated line so the recipient can detach the small calendar for purse or pocket. The file below contains two small calendars that can be added to the front flap (you'll need to resize them), or just to print on their own - one for 2012 and one for 2013. The calendar file is available in both .psd and .png format. These are two very plain, very basic calendars, so there isn't much you can edit on them, but you could use each one individually with images over and below them.

DOWNLOAD THE CALENDAR TEMPLATE IN .PSD FORMAT FROM THIS LINK.

DOWNLOAD THE CALENDAR TEMPLATE IN .PNG FORMAT FROM THIS LINK.

That's it for today's template and calendars. Hope someone out there finds them useful and fun!

Art from a Lens

noreply@blogger.com (Gracey) — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:42:00 +0000

This week I've been trying to spend a little time in my mini-studio shooting a bunch of "objects" - mostly on white backgrounds, so not the sort of thing one would really consider to be photographic art in the classic sense. Just everyday objects, like watches and rings, or paperclips and newspapers. The sort of thing you find website owners and advertising companies using to illustrate an article or caption. Useful stuff, but not what most of us would consider "art".

There's a bit of a long story with this. My studio has been taken over by a bedroom set that my mother-in-law uses when she comes to visit, so I really don't have a studio any more, but I have my backgrounds set up, and my studio lights ... except I have to stand on the opposite side of the bed to avoid shadows and get my 200mm lens to focus properly. But yesterday, while looking for my Gary Fong diffuser, I ran across this little 50mm lens I'd bought a few years ago at Henry's out of their "used" bin.

I think I've taken two pictures with it - right when I bought it to make sure it was okay. Then put it away and forgot about. This is a fully manual focus lens with no chance of autofocus, so using it for outdoor work like birds and animals is cumbersome ... I tend to set my big lens on auto when I'm trying to shoot moving things because it's just easier.

What pushed me to buy this little lens in the first place is that it has a wide f-stop of 1.4, and was in new condition. It really looked as though it hadn't been used at all ... and the price was right at about $100. Anyway, when I came across it in my photo-closet I pulled it out and stuck it on my camera and ... bam. I fell in love with it. Beautiful little thing with a nice sharp focus and the manual options make you work for what you get out of it. Adjusting your f-stop and aperature and then focusing manually, being able to get close the subject when you want ... all of these things can work to create art from your photo.

And while I know that photography in and of itself is an art, being able to get something different every shot by making small adjustments with a manual lens brings a pleasure that you just don't really get using auto-focus option. Maybe it's just me. I've always said I'm a bit of a control freak, and while I can still just shoot an ordinary shot of an everyday object with my nice little lens, I can also turn that little lens into a purveyor of artwork, like these two shots.

Anyway, today, I just really wanted to remind all of you photographers out there to consider spending more of your time working with both manual lenses, and the manual settings on your camera.

As we get busy in the world of photography, most of us don't really have the time needed to stop and think about manual settings and manual focusing, and there are situations where those just don't work. But they do work, and work really well when you just want to do something different.

And, one more thing ... don't pass up a good buy on a lens just because it's only got a manual focus. That manual focus can be very satisfying.

New Template for the New Year

noreply@blogger.com (Gracey) — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 19:51:00 +0000

Over the course of the last month or so I've been digging out some of our old family photos and snapshots to use in personalized calendars, and while doing so I ran across a bunch of those photo envelopes that used to come with your photos and negatives from the various photo-print shops. Some print shops use generic type envelopes, while some of the larger ones had their own logos and designs branded onto the envelopes. Most of you over the age of 30 or 40 will remember these - there were hundreds of styles and designs and some of those were marvelous graphic designs.

What came to mind as I sorted was the possibility of creating one of these for handing out some of my own prints, so I put a few of them aside to look at later. These are not the sort of thing you'd likely want to mass produce unless you happen to provide photo prints from other people's digital files. In that case, you'd most likely already have a bulk-supplier where you can get these. But for those of us who produce proof prints or small prints from our own files, these branded photo envelopes can add a nice touch and provide something a little different to clients.

This completed envelope uses a few pictures from a couple's wedding on the front, with floral borders in orange and red (that matched their fall wedding colours). On the large back flap is a larger version of my business card. This example has the "front" with a white background, and while I'd normally print the background envelope as one solid colour, I've made the back and back flap black here, so you can see how you can adjust the folds to fit your needs.

The template itself is simple and basic - but be sure to remove the text and "fold" lines before you print your finalized photo envelope. Start off with a sample layout of your own, run a draft print on paper, cut and fold the envelope to see where you want to adjust the fold lines. The larger flaps are designed to fold back and forth like an accordian, which allows the portion of the envelope that holds the photos to expand to hold more photos than a single-fold tab would. If you don't intend to use these for larger numbers of photos, you can cut those larger tabs down to a single-fold tab. Once you are satisfied with your "envelope", run your print on 11 /x 17" paper - preferably a heavy-weight, smooth grained paper, or if you want a very heavy envelope, use photo print paper.

If you aren't planning to customize the envelope for an individual event or couple, you can take your final layout and design on a card or disc to a print-house and order the envelopes in bulk.

To download the template (only available as a .png file) use this link.

2012 Vertical Calendar Template

noreply@blogger.com (Gracey) — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 15:52:00 +0000

As we move towards the Christmas holiday season, and the end of 2011, I've got just one more calendar template for you folks. Looking through the calendars I posted for 2012, I couldn't find a vertical one, which I almost always produce so here is a vertical calendar template for 2012 (see the calendar section for more 2012 calendar templates). It is a very basic calendar with 12 months, and the header slots for the days of the week come in a variety of colours. I have these set up on separate layers in the .psd file (one layer for each colour), or for those of you who just want a transparent template to lay over a photo (or multiple photos) or background of your choice, you can download the .zip or the .rar file, which contains one template with each of the colour bands. (See the bottom of the page for download links.)

The text on all these files is black, but you can use these on a dark background by simply inverting the template (in photoshop, you can do that using "image/adjustments/invert" from the menu, on the template layer only). Keep in mind when you invert the template, you may find the colour bands a different shade too. As well, you can use the layer styles and add a drop-shadow of white if using the black text on a dark background, which will make the text readable on a dark background without inverting the template.

For those of you just looking for printable calendars for 2012, there are two calendars at the bottom of the page which you can download and print yourself - whether at home, or at a photo shop-kiosk, or whether you order them online. Please remember, while you have permission to print these for yourself, you don't have permission to upload them at any sales site (such as Zazzle or Etsy or any similar place), nor are you allowed to sell the printed calendars (except for the amount they cost you to print - please do not remove my copyright notice from the printables). This is for the "printables" calendars only (ie: The Heart Fractal and Damask Fractals).

Any calendar you create using your own images or designs using the basic templates can be sold wherever you like (you can't sell the template only, you must add your own designs).

This will most likely be one of my lasts posts for 2011. As Christmas draws closer, I find myself falling further behind with preparations - namely baking the mass lot of cookies I do every year. Each year I find it harder to get moving and start the baking. Once I get it started, I'm okay, but right now...I really need to get started.

If I don't post again before Christmas, I hope you all have a wonderful, happy and safe Christmas, and my wishes for a prosperous and Happy New Year!

DOWNLOADS

NOTE: effective December 2013 templates for calendars prior to 2013 can be downloaded from the archived calendar directory HERE.

New 3-Year Folding Calendar Template: 2012 to 2014

noreply@blogger.com (Gracey) — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:10:00 +0000

Here's a new 3-year folding calendar template for use in photoshop or other similar editing programs. This calendar is not available in .psd format, but is available as a .png with a transparent background, making it easy for you to place your own image(s) under the template.

The top of the calendar has a basic "waved" shape and wide black outlines. The shaped top can be used to imprint your own business/company name, or any other text you'd like. It is designed to print 17" wide by 11" high (so print on 11X17 paper), but can easily be resized in your editing program to fit an 11 X 8.5 page or card stock. This calendar also runs for three years, beginning with 2012 (so, we're getting ready for next year with this one) and running to 2014. When you print the calendar itself, you can trim way the the excess white areas to create the shaped top: note that the gray area is meant to be used to join the two outside edges of the calendar after you fold it along the appropriate divisions (use glue, or two-sided tape).

If you plan to use these as mail-outs or hand-outs for promoting your business or website, you should leave them flat after trimming away the unwanted white areas, and use the double-sided tape option rather than glue.

You can download the full-sized png file from this link: 3-Year Fancy Edged Folding Calendar (2012 to 2014)

Here's a sample folding calendar created using this template, showing a wavy text across the top for two websites. Although this calendar has a summer scene, I've created the same calendar using one scene from each season, but you could use three individual photos behind the three different years if you want.

If you want to download this completed calendar to print for yourself, use this link: 3-Yr. Printable Folding Calendar of Smith's Bay/Invermara, in Orillia.

That's the newest calendar for this year. Be sure to check the "Calendars" section on our site (in the menu above) for other 2012 Calendar Templates for Photoshop.

2012 Calendar for Kids

noreply@blogger.com (Gracey) — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:13:00 +0000

Well, after a bit of a summer break, we're back with a new calendar. This isn't exactly a "template" like I normally produce, this one is just a printable 2012 calendar page designed specifically for kids - the younger kids in your life.

This calendar has been designed to print at 30 X 36 inches (poster-sized), and in black and white. It contains a variety of graphics for kids to colour, so when you print one, you might need to buy some markers or coloured pencils to go along with it. At this large size, it can give the younger set something fun to do on a rainy day, and gives them the opportunity to have a calendar with their own choice of colours, and you can even add their name to the page before you print it by opening it in your image editing program and adding new text.

If you have younger kids who are computer-savvy, you can let them colour it in any paint program that accepts .jpg files (which is most of them).

DOWNLOAD the full .jpg file here and have it printed wherever you like. Of course it's possible to resize it and print it yourself, but I have a feeling that an 8 X 10 print simply won't amuse the kids the same as a giant poster would.

~~You can download this 2012 Printable Kids Calendar from this link.~~

PLEASE NOTE: This calendar has now been archived. If you'd still like to download it, use this link to the calendar archive and download it from HERE.

NOTE TO CHROME USERS: For some reason the Chrome browser doesn't always want to display the full size image when you click the link above. The image IS there, so to download it, right click the link for the .jpg file download and just save it to your computer.