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Evening all.

I would like to try to design my own calendar template for use in our home but I am struggling with the best workflow for preparing an easily-edited template (to change days/dates in the month, length of months, year etc). My ambition is to have a calendar which can go into circulation as of next month and then for me to keep printing and adding pages as needs-be. As for the design itself, I am after a design which will be A4, single month to a side, and will have one of my photographs watermarked in the background (without an image "on top" as per the usual calendar design). I have been toying around with both Lightroom and Photoshop to try to build the templates but it doesn't appear easily customisable and, with Photoshop, I thought I had it cracked to build an image of a grid where gridlines could then be removed but I don't actually think that is the easiest solution.

I guess where I am getting to is simply asking whether anyone on here has undertaken a similar project and, if so, how you did it?

Thanks in advance for any help at all!
 
Astraeus said:
Evening all.

I would like to try to design my own calendar template for use in our home but I am struggling with the best workflow for preparing an easily-edited template (to change days/dates in the month, length of months, year etc). My ambition is to have a calendar which can go into circulation as of next month and then for me to keep printing and adding pages as needs-be. As for the design itself, I am after a design which will be A4, single month to a side, and will have one of my photographs watermarked in the background (without an image "on top" as per the usual calendar design). I have been toying around with both Lightroom and Photoshop to try to build the templates but it doesn't appear easily customisable and, with Photoshop, I thought I had it cracked to build an image of a grid where gridlines could then be removed but I don't actually think that is the easiest solution.

I guess where I am getting to is simply asking whether anyone on here has undertaken a similar project and, if so, how you did it?

Thanks in advance for any help at all!
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I didn't embark on the exercise you are planning, instead made calendars for several years using Jeffrey Friedl's excellent PS script
http://regex.info/blog/2015-09-19/2622
Jamie
 
Astraeus said:
Evening all.

I would like to try to design my own calendar template for use in our home but I am struggling with the best workflow for preparing an easily-edited template (to change days/dates in the month, length of months, year etc). My ambition is to have a calendar which can go into circulation as of next month and then for me to keep printing and adding pages as needs-be. As for the design itself, I am after a design which will be A4, single month to a side, and will have one of my photographs watermarked in the background (without an image "on top" as per the usual calendar design). I have been toying around with both Lightroom and Photoshop to try to build the templates but it doesn't appear easily customisable and, with Photoshop, I thought I had it cracked to build an image of a grid where gridlines could then be removed but I don't actually think that is the easiest solution.

I guess where I am getting to is simply asking whether anyone on here has undertaken a similar project and, if so, how you did it?

Thanks in advance for any help at all!
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Have you got Adobe InDesign?
 
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