Author: Adri

I'm a freelance graphic designer.

In this tutorial, you will learn to create 3D Product Box in Photoshop. You will need only one image and you can get it from Duchesssa.

Step 1

Create a new document with following settings:

Go to your Tools Palette and chose Rectangular Tool.
Make sure you select Fill Pixels.

Use whatever color you want, it doesn't matter, in the end you will only see the image you downloaded from Duchesssa. But it will help to distinguish the rectangles in order to place them and form the 3D Product Box.

Make three rectangles, each one in a separate layer and with different colors.

Step 2

Here comes the fun part:
Select the layer with the blue rectangle. Go to Edit > Transform > Distort
(or you can hit Ctrl+T - to bring up the Free Transform outlines, and then right-click and chose Distort).

Drag the handles and start creating front side of your box.

Step 3

Do the same with the other two rectangles.

And this is what you have so far:

Set the foreground color to black. Take the Pen Tool, chose Paths and start drawing a triangle to cover up the white space from the top of your box.
After that – right-click and chose Make Selection. Leave the Feather 0px, click OK.

Press Alt+Backspace to fill the selection with black.
Move this layer under the others.

And this is your 3D Product Box!
But let's make it look more like a product box.

Step 5

Open the downloaded image and drag and drop it into your project.
The image is OK as it is but let's make it higher in order for you to fold it better at the top of the box.

Make a New Layer.
Take the Rectangular Marquee Tool and select like you see in the picture.

Because the original picture has a nice curve to separate the gradient's colors you will make one too.
Go to Marquee Tool and this time select the Elliptical Marquee.

Hold down Alt key in order to subtract from selection (if you want to add to selection press Shift. You will notice a "+" sign near your cursor if you add to selection, or a "-" sign if you subtract) and deselect like you see in the next image:

Step 6

Set the foreground and the background color:

Now you can fill the selection with the Gradient Tool.

It looks pretty good but don't deselect the selection yet.

Step 7

Make a New layer. Go to Select > Inverse, hold down Alt and deselect all the selection but not the part from above – where the purple color will be.

Repeat the last step, with the right colors, and this is what you have so far:

Don't worry if the image doesn't look good, it will :)

Step 8

Hold down Ctrl key and select the last three layers, clicking on them.
Then hit Ctrl+E to merge them into one layer.

Take the Rectangular Marquee Tool and select like you see in the next image.

Hit Ctrl+X to cut the selection and then Ctrl+V to paste it. Photoshop will put the selection into a new layer. Hide the new layer until you do the next step.

Do the same with the next selection.

Step 9

Select the layer with the front image. Lower the Opacity to ≅ 68% in order to see the rectangles below.

Hit Ctrl+T, reduce the image a little, so that the image will have almost the rectangle's size.
Then Distort the image, like you did at the beginning of this tutorial.

Do the same with the other two layers.

Step 10

Select the layer with the left side of the box and apply the following settings from Layer Style (double-click to bring it up)

Apply the same settings to the top of the 3D box.
And that's pretty much it!

You can duplicate the layer with the front image, place it below the others, fill it with black and then distort it in order to make it the shadow of the box.

Apply Gaussian Blur Filter, lower the opacity of the layer and that's it!

Here you have the final image, a 3D Product Box made in Photoshop.

CreativeMind

That's really one handy and useful tutorial.Makes it easy for someone with nice idea to design a box when needed.

Web design myths

Thank you for the detailed tutorial. Very cool. I will try this on my own.

Paul

Great effort! This could be really helpful for newbies.

There's actually some software like a photoshop plug-inaction which does this automatically for you. It also produces a really similar box to the one you just made! It's cool :)

WebDesignerJay designed the site, you can find him on CssCreme over here: http://webdesignerjay.csscreme.com

Nikola Mitic

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Interesting software Paul!

Adri

Thanks for your appreciation guys !

I agree with Nikola: interesting software Paul ! :)

prasy

simply superb... very nice and useful tutorial

San Diego Web Design

Excellent; just what I was looking for! I'm creating new "packages" for my services and I thought of this. Great tutorial... I will come back with the links once is done! :)

Fred

Great tutorial! But in case you need a 3D product box fast, you can try the 3D product box generator at http://www.mobilefish.com/services/3dbox/3dbox.php

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