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Topic: Drawing software boxes

Posted By: Gullanian
Subject: Drawing software boxes
Date Posted: 30 May 2005 at 7:46am

Anyone know how to easily draw boxes like the one above in FireWorks? Is that a photo or a cgi?

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Posted By: dj air
Date Posted: 30 May 2005 at 8:09am

i would say its a template and you add what you want on the sides.. or maybe CGI, with a map over it.

CGi would be ok if you know dimentions

i'd be intrsted in the way it was done.... he may have outsourced it...

be intrsted on the word from the big guy himself Wink

Posted By: Bluefrog
Date Posted: 30 May 2005 at 8:27am

Scott's Box Shot Maker is a good one and free.

http://www.boxshotmaker.com - www.boxshotmaker.com

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Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 30 May 2005 at 9:07am

You can do it just as easily with photoshop,

Make 2 images, the front and the side
Use Filter > Render and draw out a 3D box - this will be the guide
Paste the 2 images you made in and use Edit > Transform > Distort and make it match the guide you made
fill the top with a colour like black
Add special effects like drop shadows etc.

Posted By: xeerex
Date Posted: 30 May 2005 at 10:41am

It's really pretty easy if you just think back to any technical drawing classes (required in 7th grade for me). I made mine with 2 rectangles and just distorted the shapes slightly and used a linear fill. I added my text/logos and used distort for them as well.

If you want to do it the easy way and use Fireworks, then download the http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm#view=sn104&viewName=Extension%20Details&loc=en_us&authorid=17146775&page=0&scrollPos=0&subcatid=0&snid=sn104&itemnumber=4&extid=619334&catid=0 - 3D Objects extension by Matthew Brown.

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 30 May 2005 at 10:53am

Gullanian wrote:

Anyone know how to easily draw boxes like the one above in FireWorks? Is that a photo or a cgi?

It was quite simple I used Fireworks.

I first created two flat rectangles, then put all the content into them, once this was done I highlighted each rectangle seperatly, including all conten,t and used the Skew tool to shrink one of the sides on each rectangle.

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Posted By: pumpkinhead
Date Posted: 26 June 2005 at 9:09am

hate to dig up old threads but I have a template. It could be used in commercial and noncommercial projects too. It comes in two formats, .png. and .psd. It also comes with a tutorial on how to place your images on a box.

You can grab it under my Free-art section on the front page at

http://www.pumpkinheadweb.com/ - http://www.pumpkinheadweb.com/

I even have a request forum, and how do I do that section here.

http://www.pumpkinheadweb.com/forum/default.asp - http://www.pumpkinheadweb.com/forum/default.asp

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