Before you click the Place button in the Place dialog, make sure that the Link option is unchecked. Navigate to your art files and select the first file. Now go to the File menu and choose Place. In Illustrator, choose File>New to create a new document. (Note: For this tutorial, we’ll only be using the front and right side of the box artwork.) The file for the front of the box is 5×5', and the files for the sides are 3×5'. The art consists of three separate flattened PSD files that we’ll place in Illustrator. Step 1 Begin with the Product Artįor this tutorial, we created the artwork for the box in Photoshop that we’ll apply to a 3D object in Illustrator. If you’d like to download the images used in this tutorial to practice this technique, visit. So let’s create our own virtual box shot in Illustrator. We’ve also seen it used on the Apple website for a lot of their products.

In fact, just recently this was prominent on the Adobe website where they had all the Creative Suite box shots displayed.

Now this is something we see all the time. One way to promote goods before they’re completed is to generate the package art and create a 3D box shot. Companies must often begin promoting their products before they’re actually produced.

Creating symbols in illustrator