Week 10: Misfit Toy Packaging

Craft
The packaging was made for landscape format of tabloid paper. I started by making a large rectangle with the rectangle marquee tool and then filled it with a solid color with the paint bucket. Then I made guidelines around the box to make the sides. I made the sides of the box making rectangles again and then using different shades of the color from the front of the box for the sides. Then I used the transform-scale and transform-skew tool to adjust the size and angle of the sides to create three dimensionality and perspective. The front, top, and side were all in different layers. Then using the rectangle marquee tool, I made another rectangle in the front layer to make a window and then I deleted the selected area. Then I made another rectanngle behind all the layers with a solid color to serve as the back of the box. Then I compied and pasted the elements of the playset from the original photoshop file and resized all the elements together to scale so they would fit in the box. I rearranged them to fit in individual compartments. I made the compartments with the rectangle marquee tool and, like the box, made tops and sides for the compartment dividers with more rectangles. I merged the box and compartment dividers together. Then I used the blending options to add a drop shadow for the inside of the box. Then I added a drop shadow for all the objects in the box. I used the eliptical marquee tool and lasso tool to create the feature panels over the window of the box. With the gradient tool, I made the plastic window glare with 100% white opacity on the ends and 0% opacity in the center, then dragged the gradient diagonally across the window. I added the text and on the largest text I used the bevel and emboss blending option.
Concept
The concept is a box with different compartments and the meat chart in the background used as a backdrop.
Composition
I wanted the items to be arranged in a matter of importance. The slaugthering machine is in the center surrounded by the animals, meat, and bottles.