This tutorial will aide you in transforming a flat design into a three dimensional packshot that is great for spicing up those product presentations.

Here’s a pic we can get at the end:

Once you’ve created a design for a product package, you may want to photograph it under suitable lighting conditions for showcasing purposes. Or, you might want to skip that costly process alltogether and create a packshot in minutes.

Open up your design of choice, making sure that it is on a separate layer and contains no unnecessary borders.

Go to Edit > Transform > Distort. We will be applying the transformation as the initial step of creating a 3d-like image.

By dragging the corners of the bounding box, shift the image’s dimensions to give it perspective. You may want to exaggerate the depth here to make for a more wooing effect. Once done, hit enter to apply the transformation.

Create a new layer and drag it under the current layer. Select the Polygonal lasso tool and draw what would be the elevation of the package. This is more or less an estimate, but we are not really aiming for accuracy here.

Create a 3-d packshot - Part 2 >>>