Desktop Calendars – February

Fishing boats at Guandu, Beitou, Taiwan. February calendar.

Since the beginning of 2009 I’ve been making available a monthly desktop calendar that is free for anyone to download from this website for their own personal use. For me, it’s a good exercise each month that involves choosing a suitable image, overlaying dates onto it and then making a variety of different sizes for different monitor resolutions from large desktop down to iPhone.

The links here lead to the various sizes where you can download a desktop calendar for February. Since the beginning of 2009 I’ve been making available a monthly desktop calendar that is free for anyone to download from this website for their own personal use. For me, it’s a good exercise each month that involves choosing a suitable image, overlaying dates onto it and then making a variety of different sizes for different monitor resolutions from large desktop down to iPhone. For the first time, this month also a new resolution custom designed for the Google Nexus One phone.

The links here lead to the various sizes where you can download a desktop calendar for February. Cmd click (Mac) or right click (Win) on the size you want and save it to your desktop

2560×1600 1920×1200 1680×1050 1600×1200

1440×900 1280×1024 1024×768 iPhone Google phone

I find creating these has been a good way to share my work and helps with keeping others informed about some of my latest images. Here’s how I make them.

• Open the photo is Adobe Photoshop.

• Select the type tool and type the name of the month. This will be on a new layer.

• Adjust the position using the move tool and the opacity in the Layer palette until you’re happy with it.

• Repeat this for the dates. You could have one long line with all the dates across an edge or down the side. Alternatively, you could make a separate text layer for each week.

• Save the resulting calendar as a PSD file preserving the layer structure.

• Merge or flatten the layers and resize to whatever dimensions you’d like. The sizes I offer above are some common desktop sizes.

• Save the final, resized calendar as a jpg.

Give this a try and start creating your own monthly calendars to share with family, friends and clients.

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