Product Packaging & Labels Design in Illustrator & Photoshop

Learn to create an offset path for perfume packaging to protect dye lines from irregular cutting, using Pathfinder Unite and expand appearance in Illustrator.

Explore dye line variations for a perfume packaging box and learn how to group and align dye lines to fit on a single paper, reducing printing and cutting costs.

Design a luxury perfume packaging box in Illustrator by applying a 2–3 color scheme, locking the dye line, and placing logo, ingredients, barcode, and address on the flaps.

Explore common packaging types for liquids and goods, including bottles for gels, creams, and juices; cans and boxes for foods; bags and blister packs for medicines.

Explore basic box types, including straight up, reverse stack, and snap low bottom. Learn how each suits lightweight cosmetics or heavier products, balancing printing efficiency and assembly time.

Design packaging by incorporating required information, including UPC barcodes with proper quiet zones and clear contrast. Ensure nutrition, ingredients, origin, safety notices, and eco-labels meet FDA and labeling standards.

Illustrate why Adobe Illustrator is ideal for packaging design, offering familiar drawing tools, workflows, and magnification up to 400 percent, with Esko's dust and Packager for 3d previews without printing.

Create a custom packaging and labeling design workspace in Illustrator by trimming irrelevant panels, saving the new layout named packaging and labels, and learning to manage workspaces for future projects.

Create a new packaging and labels document from the file menu, name it, set inches units in landscape with cm printing, rename artboards, and begin design.

Explore a case study from 99designs to design vitamin packaging and labels in illustrator and photoshop, using box dimensions, 3d display, and height calculations yielding 1.2 inches.

Explore box packaging elements, including left and right panels, top and bottom flaps, and how the panels glue inside, with measurements guiding the design.

Create a packaging dieline in Illustrator by drafting panels with rectangles, duplicating with alt, resizing with the transform tool, and adding glue, top and bottom panels, and dust flaps.

Learn to create rounded corner edges on packaging in Illustrator and Photoshop by tilting flap edges with the direct selection tool, then refine radii to 1 to 5 inches.

Learn to define a bleed area (safe area) for packaging and set the bleed to the value per customer requirements, using Illustrator and Photoshop tools like shape builder and offset.

Create a nutritional supplement label by building a layered side cover, drawing an angled rectangle, applying color values and effects, and adding ingredients and manufacturing country details.

Create a side cover label by grouping the nutritional label, saving it as a symbol named supplement cover, and layering text for directions, cautions, manufacturing information, and a left-side barcode.

Learn where to obtain barcodes for packaging design, including requesting barcode files from manufacturers or generating your own with software, and selecting vector formats.