Create a Calendar Icon - Design Tutorial 2
Grab your text tool, and pick the month and year that you want it to display. I used Arial Narrow size 12. Check out the results below:

Apply these layer style settings to your text. You will need to change your blending options and the drop shadow settings.









By Martijn, April 16, 2007 @ 1:16 am
Nice.. I’m gonna try it, but I love your background even more, how do you do that?
By Michael, April 16, 2007 @ 4:02 pm
The background is actually a default Mac OSX Wallpaper but you just gave me an idea to create a tutorial on how to make one so expect that to come soon.
By gfxpalette.com, January 18, 2008 @ 6:24 am
nice thanks,.
By Sabine, January 26, 2008 @ 1:25 pm
Very nice and helpful Tutorial. Thanks for sharing!
By Hallsie, May 16, 2008 @ 2:25 pm
Other than a few spelling mistakes I was doing good until we made the first “column” for the boxes. I cannot find anywhere to set up a 1 pixel border. You didn’t tell which tool to use so I assumed the same rectangle tool we used thus far. Also your one settings page was difficult to read.
I would also like to ask you what we are starting with as far as a base is concerned (size and dpi settings). I think I would like it far better if you were to take screenshots of the work in progress from within photoshop instead of exporting each step (what it appears you are doing).
I can’t say great tut because I can’t finish but I’m happy with a good majority of the tut until the step I am stuck at.
By Question Boy, September 23, 2008 @ 4:00 am
Great Tutorial! Do you have a link to the background BEHIND the calendar? Please send it to me!