HI,
I work with Chinese manufacturers, and they always ask me for an ai format for my box designs, but I design my boxes in photoshop. I usually save it as a pdf, and then open it in illustrator and save it in that format, but then they complain that it’s not good. If I just open the psd file in ai without saving as pdf in between, some things jump around when they open it…
Does anyone have any experience with this?
When you send die lines to Chinese factories they always have to be in vector format. If you show me the box your working with, I can see if i have a die line for you in illustrator. I do packaging design so I have many many die lines if you need.
They usually send me the template. But when I send them the file they say that they can’t remove the lines, so I send it without lines… How can I send it in editable format?
Do you make the design in illustrator?
@ChanyT Just wondering how come you design the packaging in photoshop?
That’s the program I know best… Which program is better for package designs?
I think illustrator is most used, because packaging designs should be vector.
But if your printer is ok with it not being vector just go with that…
Can you make a vector file using images?
When i set up my own files i usually use illustrator, but I sometimes work with templates and they could be Photoshop files.
Any way how to go about it then so it should be vector files?
Whenever it needs to be vector files you will need to create it in illustrator.
You can bring your templates into illustrator
@ChanyT I was the same way, I used to only know photoshop but once I started with packaging illustrator became my go to for everything.
You can import the images into Illustrator.
But isn’t it hard to work with box layouts in illustrator? Like, can you remove backgrounds, fix up images…?
Images should be worked with in Photoshop, but according to what we learned in the packaging module, final package design should be vector.
So place your photoshop images into Illustrator if you need images as part of the design…