Weve uploaded the 2015 calendar files for one of our longtime reader-favorite articles, Quick and Easy Calendars from Templates, which originally ran in the November/December 2009 issue of Photoshop Elements Techniques. This years set has 11 different templates, including a new one page style, three styles for CD jewel-case-style calendars and both portrait and landscape templates. Weve also included the Photoshop Elements page template for the jewel case.
You can download the templates via this link. Just save the ZIP file on your computer, and double-click it (or use a utility like WinZip) to decompress it. The instructions in the article show you some ideas for creating your own calendar pages, but essentially, all you need to do to add a month to an Elements document is use the File > Place command, navigate to the PDF template you would like to use, open it and choose the month from the Place PDF dialog box that follows. Click OK, and it will put the month into your document on a new layer as a Smart Object.
Once youve placed your month, you can resize it, move it and apply other adjustments to it as desired. And, because its a Smart Object, you can continue to resize it until you have it just the way youd like it to be. Note that some versions of Photoshop Elements place the template page at a pretty large size on-screen. You might have to use Ctrl (Mac: Command) [that's the 'minus', or 'dash' key on your keyboard] to change the Zoom view so that you can resize the page template.
If youd like help with the jewel case template, check out the blog post about the templates: there are tips and screen shots there for creating an awesome, personalized gift.
Enjoy!
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