July 2013 Tutorial: Packaging and Perspective

[Barbara B]

Packaging and Perspective



This month’s XaraXone.com Tutorial covers Packaging and Perspective. How do you put a logo or a photo of a shopping bag so the logo looks as though it was always in this image? Simple: follow this month’s steps in combination with the resource files Gary Bouton has provided.

Then show us how you use perspective in signage and packaging, by posting right here in this thread!

[Big Frank]

thats a great intro to perspective
as usual fun and educative at the same time
hats off to you
i now see what you do in perspective
(ok, i'll go now)

[Big Frank]

i had a lot of fun with this one
i love perspective!
thanks for the workbook gary

[csehz]

That looks great Frank

[Gare]

MAR-velous work on the building, Frank!

Folks, notice how Big Frank went above and beyond the tutorial steps and created a perspective plane against the left wall of the building.

I was hoping someone would try out more than one perspective plane!



Did anyone notice that the VW is a rendered model I added to the photograph?

I didn't have time to buy a dozen cars and park them in the vacant lot.

-g

[Big Frank]

thanks gary, had a good time doing those two planes

Did anyone notice that the VW is a rendered model I added to the photograph?

errrm yes

but then i thought the whole image was a render.

ok, i'll leave now...

[stygg2003]

Not yet done the building perspective yet but I've done the labels to bags, it's similar to some perspective drawings we did a short time ago. Updated this pic 11 as I have just noticed a slight curve on the front of this bag so tried to keep it as near to the original as possible Hope I've got away with drawing a shadow on a shadow to bring on top of the blue rectangle on the Dekko bag ?

Stygg

[Gare]

@stygg—

Yours look like a good WIP, and I'd almost forgotten I gave that beach scene away!

@Big Frank—

If the VW isn't completely photorealistic, I'm not all that disappointed, honestly! I was just wondering if my renders are looking more convincing than they did last year or five years ago. It's really hard to fake a part of a photo completely...it all depends on the photo and the content within it.

Okay, I created these two images for a book I wrote about four years ago, and see no reason not to offer them up for recycling. When you need a new perspective on things, try out these two new things...





My Best,
Gary

[stygg2003]

If I recollect we've been here before, but it's good to freshen old perspective drawings, keeps you on top.

Stygg

[Gare]

Oh.

Hell.

You know what they say about getting older and a failing memory?

Can you remind me what they say?






I'm going to have to be better about indexing stuff I post!

My Best,

Gary