Although there are some professional tools out there made specifically for this purpose, sometimes you need to make it on your own and what is the best way to do it than to see how someone did it before. We made a compilation of seventeen terrific and easy to follow Photoshop product box tutorials in order to save your time so you can concentrate on the design itself. Of course if we missed some great ones out there feel free to let us know so we can complement the list.
How to use Photoshop to create Product Box?
Create a product box using rectangles and direct shape editing. Utilizes guides as visual helpers for intersection points and it is pretty straight forward with fast result.
Stylish, nicely illustrated and very easy to follow tutorial utilizing Photoshop scaling options. Divided into six clear steps from start to finish and offers a nice bonus with reflection. Original author is Fredrick Silverglimth who is a photographer and a graphic designer.
This tutorial incorporates a perspective Photoshop tool in order to achieve a 3d effect. As a bonus you get a nice background with reflective surface.
This tutorial is more focused on making graphics to fit the box because you can download the already made box template. Fast and easy approach.
Create 3D Product Box Photoshop Design Tutorial
A nice, long, and extensive tutorial divided into 10 steps. Make a box using rectangles and distort technique and make a nice touch with a back shadow and open cover.
Create a software box Photoshop Tutorial
This tutorial will not only show you how to make a 3d product box using distort technique but it will also show you how to make an effective design for it. All in one solution for making a product box from scratch.
How to Create a Product Box in Photoshop
Another tutorial using distort technique. It is divided into nine clear steps and will give you in depth explanations for each one along with smaller sub steps.
This tutorial introduces a 3D transform Photoshop tool along with distort in order to make a product box. It is divided into eight steps and provides some useful short cuts.
One more tutorial using distort technique comes from Weborum forums. It is short, concise, and will give you exactly what you need fast and without a lot of long explanations.
Software Box Design with Adobe Photoshop
If you think that this tutorial will teach you how to make thicker boxes you are right and wrong at the same time. You can easily change the thickness. Tutorial is divided into nine steps and utilizes the perspective tool.
This tutorial is actually about making a DVD cover but the concept can easily be used to make a product box as well. After all that DVD is also a product thus DVD cover is also a product box.
As this product box title says, do it yourself. It is actually true because this tool incorporates the free transform option in order to create a box. In practice, there is not much difference between this and distort technique based tutorials.
Another tutorial using same basic transform tool. Simple, fast and easy.
This tutorial is maybe the longest and more explained than others in this collection. It is five pages long with 31 step inside. Every little step is numbered and almost all of them have a supporting screen shot so there shouldn’t be any mistakes in the process.
3D product box from scratch along with nicely done graphics. Combines the perspective tool with free transform so you can easily adjust the angle.
Pink box made with perspective. What can you ask more? Nice musical theme? You got it.
Creating a Product Box in Photoshop
We had the longest before and we left the shortest and easiest for the end. No top, no bottom, just pure perspective at work. And who needs that top and bottom anyway when we can’t even see it. Right?
We end here and if you find more tutorials on the subject, or have one in the drawer, feel free to let us know about it and complement this collection through comments.



















clippingimages on November 17, 2009
Awesome collection of box tutorials. Thanks for sharing this nice post.