Jan 17th 2008 Monopoly Template for Photoshop

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.

No Mr. Moneybags. He wasn’t relevant to my project so he was left out.
Didn’t have time to illustrate Luxury Tax, Guy in Jail, amongst other things.
A lot of the dimensions are eyed-up and not necessarily exact measurements
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.
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.
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.

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6 Responses to “Monopoly Template for Photoshop”

Virginia Mannino on 05 Feb 2008 at 1:42 pm #

Well, I’m not the brightest crayon in the box BUT, I’m gonna try & figure this out! I think I have to get PHOTOSHOP first… anyway, I’m going to attempt making one for “cat shows” since those people are so freakin crazy, it should be funny (buy cattery houses If I get it together & useable, I’ll let you know!
Thanks for your work,
Virginia
Eli on 16 Feb 2008 at 3:35 pm #

I have Photoshop but I cant open this file, it says file type is not correct. PLEASE HELP!!!
Brad on 16 Feb 2008 at 4:21 pm #

@Eli - Did you unzip the file? The file that is available to download is a .zip file. You must extract the files first. Here’s a link on how to do that. Once you have unzipped the folder, you should see several files within the folder, one of which is called “monopoly.psd” (.psd stands for PhotoShop Document). That is the file that will be read by Photoshop.

If you’ve already unzipped the folder and tried opening “monopoly.psd” and it still gives you the error message, it might have something to do with the version of Photoshop you have. To find out what version you have, open Photoshop and click Help>About Photoshop. Let me know what version you’re running. Hope this helps.
Guest on 13 Mar 2008 at 12:56 pm #

you can also use GIMP to open the file
GIMP is a freeware program
neil on 30 Mar 2008 at 9:38 am #

Hey - the board looks great, but am i right in seeing only one deed card in that zip file? Is there any way to get the rest?
Brad on 30 Mar 2008 at 11:39 am #

@neil - The deeds are all there, but their layers are hidden and grouped into folders such as “purple,” “light blue,” “magenta,” etc. In order to view the other deeds in “the_property_cards.psd” you need to turn on the layers that you need to view using the layers palette. Let me know if you have any problems.