Monopoly Template for Photoshop

Monopoly Photoshop Template

Christmas time was fast approaching and the idea popped into my head to create a custom Monopoly game for my family. I remember seeing something for a “Make Your Own Opoly” game, but when i checked it out, I found out it’s whack. It only has 9 spaces per side instead of the official Monopoly’s 10, you have to print it out on your home computer, and just lacks the overall look and feel of the original game.

So began my quest to find a Monopoly template for Photoshop , something that I could just open up on in Photoshop, swap out the default titles with my own, and if I wanted to, redesign any element of the board. I can’t say I searched the 4 corners of the globe for a proper template, so the best I came up with was something that someone threw together quickly in a forum somewhere.

It was a good start, but the creator was rushing to do it quickly and overlooked a few things. So I took it into Photoshop, simplified a lot of the structure, and designed the board to mirror the original Monopoly design. I set the file at CMYK/300dpi and set the dimensions at 20in x 20in, the actual Monopoly board dimensions. However, Christmas time was fast approaching, so I didn’t have a whole lot of time to labor over every detail.

That being said, there are a few shortcomings with my template, but all of them can be fixed quickly. Here’s a quick list of them.

  1. No Mr. Moneybags. He wasn’t relevant to my project so he was left out.
  2. Didn’t have time to illustrate Luxury Tax, Guy in Jail, amongst other things.
  3. A lot of the dimensions are eyed-up and not necessarily exact measurements
  4. All the icons (electric company, trains, go, free parking, etc…) were drawn quite poorly in Photoshop. If I had more time, I would have properly illustrated them in a fancy program called Illustrator.
  5. The typefaces aren’t exactly proper, especially on the property cards. The main typeface is Kabel, which you have to pay for, so I used knockoff fonts that are similar, but not the original.
  6. The colors aren’t exactly correct, so you’d have to twiddle with them

All these shortcomings aside, the Monopoly template is pretty strong. Hopefully somebody else can take it to the next level! Leave a comment if you have any questions.

Download Source Files (.zip)

84 Comments

  1. DJ

    04/15/11

    This is awesome… I’m going to make a version based on the TV series ‘Spaced’ – I’ll let you know when I’m done in case anyone wants to play with it!

  2. J. J.

    04/20/11

    Thanks so much! I’m in charge of decorations for a church game night (theme monopoly) and this helps so I don’t have to recreate it all in photoshop!

    AWESOME!!!

  3. Brian

    04/24/11

    Brad,
    You are my hero! I started to make my own using InDesign and I was looking for the fonts when I came across your template. This must have taken such a long time!! I am really impressed with your Photoshop skills to set up the layers the way you did! Thank you so much for sharing this!

  4. Megan Brown

    04/29/11

    Excellent template! Really well done. I just want to congratulate you on the skill you used and complexity of this. It must have taken a lot of work but again really well done.

  5. LRW

    05/15/11

    Mate,
    Thanks a lot!
    :)

  6. Evan Spangler

    06/03/11

    Thanks, I am a 13 yr computer programmer, and I had a report for “Math Monopoly”, and your templates were excellent. Though if I were you, I would put each property card into a diffrent PSD doc. The layers were somewhat confusing, but thanks again! I aced my report. Thanks, I couldn’t have done it without you!

    -Evan Spangler

  7. Odne

    06/07/11

    Thank you! Simply, a massive thank you!

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  10. sophie

    06/21/11

    i cant find the property deed things could someone help me with that so i can print off and make my own???

  11. TV

    06/27/11

    woW! thank you very much for this… I’m planning my b-day party with the MONOPOLY theme so this will be perfect!! thanks!

  12. bob

    07/21/11

    ive been looking for something like this forever, THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!

  13. YES!

    07/25/11

    You are MAGNIFICENT!!! What an AMAZING job you’ve done!! Thank you SO MUCH!!!

  14. troy.

    08/02/11

    you da man…thank you so much!

  15. Ian

    08/28/11

    Thank you for the work you put into this.

    I run a gaming event called “Iron Artist” and was going to use the make your own monopoly game that I had in my closet collecting dust. I realized the same problems you did and was afraid I would have to chuck this idea for an even lamer one.

    again, thank you:)

  16. Dissy

    10/06/11

    I just wanted to share a website I found a few years ago when I was tasked with designing a promotional item for the company I work for.

    http://boardgamedesign.com/pages/main_red.htm

    Custom *-opoly games! You send them the design, they ship you the boards cards boxes, and optionally the pieces and play money.

    The only thing we had to design custom elsewhere was our player pieces, since they only sell the standard generic tokens.

    At least as of 2008, their prices came out to roughly $30 for a single prototype, and once you ordered in quantity of 25 it was down to around $22 each, minus the player tokens of course.
    I think for cost reasons I also ended up buying a thick card stock and printing my own deeds and such too, so those prices are exact.

    I guess it wouldn’t be cheap for you to build full box sets to re-sell, but ya never know. Might also be helpful for others looking to just build one set for themselves (Which I want to do and hopefully have time)

    If I get the photoshop template converted to image formats they want, I’ll let ya know and give a link to DL.

  17. Adrian

    10/13/11

    If I had any Monopoly money, I would give it all to you as a token of my thanks.

    GREAT job, much fun to be had.

  18. Ryan

    10/26/11

    I know you made this like 3 years ago, but I still wanted to say thankyou
    very much, I recently wanted to try making my own addition of monopoly based on a show that my friends like, and you did an amazing job with this, and you’re modest too, I thought your illustrations were well done. And your project folders are very well organized and make it very easy to transform virtually any way I want. Thanks a bunch for your efforts.

  19. Phil

    11/16/11

    Thank you so much for doing this! I had been looking everywhere for a monopoly template! This will be perfect for making my own monopoly for game night! Thanks!

  20. Craig

    11/22/11

    Awesome job! You’ve done the bulk of the work for creating a custom game. Thank you.

  21. Carrie

    12/03/11

    This is awesome! I had the idea for this for my family, as we’ve literally had one house for every space on that board. I wanted to do it last Christmas but didn’t have time. Thought I would try again, and to find this is a gem. Thank you so much!

  22. Bec

    12/07/11

    Thanks so much for this, really helped!

  23. Ben Widdup

    01/01/12

    People like you make the world a better place. I wouldnt have designed this if i had to start from scratch, much respect and thanks.

  24. Argyris Sk

    01/12/12

    thanks a lot for helping! very useful stuff!! ;)

  25. Sogor

    01/19/12

    how can I print the board in 4 pages?

  26. SoGoR

    01/19/12

    Thx verry much it is AWESOME!!!

  27. Jeff

    01/20/12

    This is the nicest, most productive thing i’ve ever seen someone do on the internet!! I made a board for my friends about a major trip we recently took to Myrtle Beach (we’re also Monopoly Junkies.) They all said this was probably the greatest thing they’ve ever seen!!! I am deeply apprectiative of your generosity and time you took to make it easy on us!! THANK YOU A MILLION TIMES OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  28. Amy

    01/21/12

    I really need this but I do not have photoshop – is there another way I can download a property card template? Please advise! I am having a fundraiser at the end of March and need to get started on all my decorations and printing. Any adivise helpful!

  29. NexEvo

    01/24/12

    OMG!!! This helped me so much! I am attempting to make a Pokemon Monopoly for my brothers birthday. This will help me with the finishing touches.

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