Tutorial Details
- Program: Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator CS5
- Difficulty: Advanced
- Estimated Completion Time: 7 Hours
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Final Product What You'll Be Creating
Creating excellent product packaging is more than just producing a great design. To make great packaging you’ll also need to produce printer-friendly artwork that your printer can use to easily apply your design to print. In this Psd Premium tutorial, author Mark Mayers will demonstrate how to create a Blu-ray in-lay card for a fictional zombie movie and mock it up as an impressive 3-D Blu-ray case that you can present to your clients. This tutorial will walk you through the entire process and will use Photoshop as well as Illustrator to create error free, printer-friendly artwork.
This tutorial takes inspiration from the recent zombie genre revival, such as The Walking Dead, based on Robert Kirkman’s popular graphic novels – so get ready for some post-apocalyptic, flesh eating zombie mayhem! This tutorial is available exclusively to Premium Members. If you are looking to take your package design skills to the next level then Log in or Join Now to get started!
About the Author
Author Mark Mayers is a talented designer and illustrator from the UK. He has worked as a designer and creative director for several design/advertising agencies and specializes in print, branding, packaging, and exhibition graphics. Mark began his career when the tools of the trade were markers, layout pads, and most importantly, the ability to draw, but he embraced the digital revolution in the early 90′s and swapped his drawing board for a Mac. Today, Mark freelances from his studio in Cornwall for such clients as American Express, BMW, Future Publishing, IDG Communications and Imagine Publishing.
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nice???
Cool…
I love seeing real-world work on here! Well done!
Preview looks nice and I think it’s very useful! :)
All i can say is wow..
Just in time. Just finished out feature film and working on the post production and distribution. This will come in handy. Thanks guys!
Now this is something that can prove really useful to some persons…
It looks like “La Horde” a great zombie french film.
Nice !
Thanks a lot for this great tutorial !
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Looks really nice, i got one question however: Why do you add the typography in photoshop? I have not read the full tutorial so I don’t know if this is really what you do, but from what I can see on the pictures it looks that way. For a print job you should always add the the typography in indesign so it stays vectorized all the way to the printer. Because text in an image, even at 300ppi, wont look as sharp as vector text.
The type you see in that screengrab is only a temporary guide layer. Illustrator is used to create the final artwork.
A great tutorial. I’ve learned a few new techniques from going through it, and it will definitely help me out in future. It looks just like it should be in the shops!
Thanks for the great content