Chris Donovan , Sep 07, 2010; 09:24 p.m.
I need a quick solution to importing either a monthly or yearly calender into a photoshop file. is their software or a download to make this easy. i have found some after doing a search on the web but i cannot get a quality import worthy for printing. is their a way right from my windows computer? i want to make a calender/game schedule for my sons upcoming basketball season and have the booster club sell them for fundraising
barry goldberg 
, Sep 07, 2010; 10:21 p.m.
Instead of PS, have you looked at using Google's Calendar. I use it, as well as my entire family, for keeping track of everything. And Google provides a widget that you can download and it syncs your Outlook calendar with your Google calendar. Best of all, this is entirely free, and ensures that the calendar that you maintain in Outlook will be automaticaly updated on the web for everyone you want to access. You can also decide how much security you want on this Google calendar. You can either only allow specific users, or you could open it up to the world.
As a side note, I just convinced my daughter's Girl Scout troop leader to move the troop calendar to a Google calendar!
Dave Sims 
, Sep 08, 2010; 12:09 a.m.
I don't think that's what Chris was asking. He wants a printable calendar template to edit in Photoshop, in order to make regular paper calendars for the wall. (Not that I can add anything helpful!)
Marios Forsos 
, Sep 08, 2010; 02:36 a.m.
Wow...! I never thought I'd see this come up again! Why? Because back in 2003 I needed to do the same thing (only in InDesign) and was looking for something similar. Back then, there was an InDesign add-in that would do that, but it would not work, as I remember, with anything else other than InDesign. Of course, it was, back then, way more expensive than I could afford, so I passed and made my calendar manually. Still, it might be worth looking it up (if it still exists)...
Andrew Gilchrist 
, Sep 08, 2010; 09:42 a.m.
I would have thought that many of the companies who offer printing online (iPhoto, shutterfly, etc.) offer tools to help produce calendars though obviously you need to find one that allows custom dates and bulk pricing--the one-off are often priced around $20 which I assume is too much for use as a fundraiser. I suspect that PS is probably not the best tool for the job though--probably better done with software more like a word processor/desktop publisher which probably already has templates and is also probably a lot friendlier as far as entering the dates.
Mark Deneen 
, Sep 08, 2010; 09:28 p.m.
A different approach, same outcome: Costco makes excellent calendars. You create an image for each month - just like you;'d see in any commercial calendar. You use photoshop or any other graphics program to create these large JPGs that you upload into the Costco template. You make 12 images for the months, and one for the cover. You can do anything you want in P'shop - photos, drawings, collages, whatever you desire. AFter you upload the 13 images to Costco, there will be options for what style of calendar page you want. These calendars are printed on heavy stock, they are spring bound and about 12" x 12" in size. We bought 50 at around $8 each if I recall. They are indistinguishable from a professional calendar you'd see in the book stores, card shops and so on. It's totally easy. Takes about 1 week to get the calendars.
Mikael Karlsson 
, Sep 08, 2010; 09:34 p.m.
Chris:
Are you having this printed somewhere? If so, they might - as others have pointed out - have generic calendars you can use. If you're doing it yourself there are clip-art solutions you can go for. A quick search turned up lots of possibilities - Google is your friend.
If you are going to have it printed, places like Vista Print just to mention one example of many, have calendar solutions you can use. See this link for some examples: (link)
