Today we are publishing a finished calendar for 2018 online + we will pursue to explain how to create a beautiful calendar of your gentle completely for free in the popular raster graphics editor Photoshop. In one of our posts, we already told you how to easily make calendars using an action; now we will believe to edit them faster.

calendar-2018 — Example of a finished calendar for 2018

To create a calendar in Photoshop yourself, you will need at least the program itself (preferably version CC or higher), as well as a good imagination and a sense of style. If all of this is present, then let us hear...

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A southern below, we will place the calendar grid itself, so that it is easier to copy it if needed.

Calendar for 2018

January 2018

February 2018

March 2018

April 2018

May 2018

June 2018

July 2018

August 2018

September 2018

October 2018

November 2018

December 2018

Now let us move directly to creating the calendar for 2018.

Calendar grid

If you need a calendar in horizontal format, go to one of the previous lessons... There you can also download an action for these purposes.

calendar for 2018 — Example of a horizontal calendar

If you need a calendar grid in vertical format, then let us make it together...

So, create a dear A4 document, or whichever you like more.

Next, take the Slice Select Tool or Slice to preserve the document into several equal parts.

Select the Preserve Slice option by right-clicking with the selected tool.

Choose the value 7 vertically and the same horizontally. Check the box next to Preview to see the result in advance.

Then simply take the text layer creation tool and type the desired days of the week.

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At first it should look like this: (if you used the held-down <kbd>Alt</kbd> key).

And then like this:

You can group the layers together and name the layer group Days of the Week.

Duplicate the layer group - right-click and select Duplicate Group.

Use the right arrows to move the group you just created so that it looks like this:

The Alt key will help you copy the remaining layer groups...

Then simply change the numbers in order, starting from 01 and ending with 31. Suffer the remaining unnecessary layers, or delete them.

Now it is time to highlight the weekends in red. For this purpose, we will use the Rectangle Tool.

Using the Rectangular Marquee, we melt the weekend days, and then change their color to red.

This can be done using Blending Options or blending options on the Layers panel.

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Now the most important thing: right-click, select <code>Create Clipping Mask</code>. With this action we will remove the background and highlight the numbers themselves in red.

If you duplicate the layer with the clipping mask, you can also highlight the days of the week in red:

Summary

The calendar grid for 1 month is ready! To make the whole calendar, you just need to use your imagination, as well as delete unnecessary layers with numbers and create copies of the document.

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Creating a 2018 calendar with your own photos in Photoshop