How to design a 3d box or cube in Photoshop

sun-cube

I created this image to represent the idea of “Energy in a Box”. The secret of making a box in Photoshop is to use guides and enabling the Snap to Guides feature to make sure everything looks as it should do. I started with selecting a 2d side (or sides) for the box. I chose [...]

Box packaging designed for music software

music-box-design

This is a sierra box for a music software company that I did some work on. I did the photo montage of the DJ. This design will also be rolled out onto the amaray cases (DVD case), DVD or CD disc labels, a manual cover and advertising. I loved doing this work. One, it was [...]

Sierra boxes and amaray cases for CD and DVD packaging

ejay-sounds-sierra

Here (above) are three sierra boxes I did for a music creation software company. Also in this product range I did a DVD disc label, manual, jewel case and amaray case which are housed, obviously, in the sierra box. The sierra box was also printed with a spot UV or varnish which give the pictorial [...]

Montage design for music DVDs

rock-music-montage

I have been working on some CD and DVD packaging for a music creation software company. I love doing stuff to do with music and here I was asked to create some montages to express different musical genres. The montages will eventually go on large sierra boxes (a sierra box is a large cardboard box [...]

How to design shiny interface buttons in Illustrator

go-icon-button

These little buttons take a few seconds to make in Illustrator and give a nice polished, “web 2.0″ feel to a website or interactive environment. Firstly, when creating this shiny effect in Illustrator remember to make the document RGB. Go File > Document Color Mode > RGB. It won’t work otherwise. Many thanks to Simon [...]

Graphic design an eye

eye-450

This is one way of reproducing a striking image without having to pay for it! The logical way of doing an image made of dots would be like this: Make sure that your image’s width and height are divisible by 10 pixels (the above is 450 by 300 pixels). Nice round numbers make the following [...]

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