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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hark" data-source="post: 625488" data-attributes="member: 13196">For some reason the quote feature isn't working for me. [USER=27017]@cwgrizz[/USER] mentioned I've been making calendars. This current year (2017) was the first calendar I made as a fund raiser for church. I followed these directions and made my own from scratch because I couldn't find any of the templates that stores offered to be to my liking. [MEDIA=youtube]fjTlQuvuYw4[/MEDIA]Prior to this calendar, I made a number of 20"x30" collage posters from scratch--all with text on them. What I found the easiest to do is to decide what color to make the text. Then I added a Score to the text (outlining) and usually a Drop Shadow. The score/outlining needs to be in a contrasting color to make the text stand out. If the background is dark, use white to score/outline and use whatever color you want for the text color. If the background is white, use black or some other color for the score/outlining that will make your text stand out. Black and white always work well. Here are a couple of the posters I made for one of our high schools. Each block of text is its own layer. Any scoring, drop shadows, and bevels are added in Photoshop as a layer style. Everything I made was done in Photoshop. The first few posters might have been made in Photoshop Elements. Are you familiar with using layers in Photoshop? In this first poster below, it looks like I had 10 layers of text. The upload compression from this forum really distorts how the scoring and drop shadows look. When viewed in person, the drop shadows were more of a grey color. If you are using LightRoom, I have no clue how to add text so I'm sorry I can't be of help there.[ATTACH=full]257999[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]258000[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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