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2016 Calendar
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This year I've continued my tradition of making a calendar for my family and friends. It's not for sale and I only have a few printed - but I thought I'd share the images here. (Richard, if this belongs in another forum feel free to move it.)
This year's theme is "the beauty lies in the details". (Because I live in Germany the calendarium is in German.) I created the layout in InDesign and for the initial choosing and placement of the pictures I exported jpegs from Lightroom. After I had made the final size/layout/picture choice I edited the original DNG files in Photoshop and created CMYK tiffs for the final placement. (The printer got a CMYK PDF file.)
I find the conversion to CMYK the most challenging - I had to retweak every picture to get the colors back up to par. Indeed, I had one picture chosen for August that I had to toss because I just couldn't get the colors balanced to my satisfaction in CMYK. Since I only do this once a year it could naturally be my lack of CMYK expertise that caused the problems...
The other time suck was the calendarium. I used an InDesign plugin which was basically great, but it had so many layers it was a challenge to figure out which style was on which layer in order to format all of the lines and backgrounds. I would have loved to do a bit more fiddling but I just ran out of time!
So, here they are - enjoy. And naturally comments or constructive criticism are welcome. (And if you find a typo I don't think I want to know!!
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I made this a bit larger so the description text is ledgible.
The calendars arrived today and I'm pretty pleased with how they turned out. The CMYK struggles paid off.
Cheers,
Sara
This year's theme is "the beauty lies in the details". (Because I live in Germany the calendarium is in German.) I created the layout in InDesign and for the initial choosing and placement of the pictures I exported jpegs from Lightroom. After I had made the final size/layout/picture choice I edited the original DNG files in Photoshop and created CMYK tiffs for the final placement. (The printer got a CMYK PDF file.)
I find the conversion to CMYK the most challenging - I had to retweak every picture to get the colors back up to par. Indeed, I had one picture chosen for August that I had to toss because I just couldn't get the colors balanced to my satisfaction in CMYK. Since I only do this once a year it could naturally be my lack of CMYK expertise that caused the problems...
The other time suck was the calendarium. I used an InDesign plugin which was basically great, but it had so many layers it was a challenge to figure out which style was on which layer in order to format all of the lines and backgrounds. I would have loved to do a bit more fiddling but I just ran out of time!
So, here they are - enjoy. And naturally comments or constructive criticism are welcome. (And if you find a typo I don't think I want to know!!
)I made this a bit larger so the description text is ledgible.
The calendars arrived today and I'm pretty pleased with how they turned out. The CMYK struggles paid off.
Cheers,
Sara
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Great work!
Wayne
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Very well done
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I wish you all and all the dgrinners a joyous and stress-free holiday season.
Cheers, Sara
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@Carter - there are indeed many simpler routes to calendar printing than using InDesign and converting to CMYK. Most online photo printing places offer a "pop your photos into their layout" method and some of the pre-made designs are actually quite nice. But basically I'm a cheapskate - for the amount of calendars that I printed (around 20), my online printing place cost me less than half as much as much as the "easy-peasy" places. All of those easy places offer virtually no bulk discount.
Lucklily, in the 80s and 90s I did quite a bit of work in graphic layout / desktop publishing and although my skills are somewhat rusty I can still get around in InDesign. And it's always good to have a project that keeps me in practice.
Cheers,
Sara