Wine Bottles in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop

Can you tell the difference between these two (1, 2) wine bottle illustrations?

What’s that?  They both suck?  I know, but you have to start somewhere…

If you answered that one was created in Photoshop and that the other was created in Illustrator, then you are the big winner.

Which one do you think made the better wine bottle?  Unfortunately, you have to learn both Illustrator and Photoshop to do design work in the real world.

There are sweet tutorials for how to design 3D packaging at Psdtuts and at Vectortuts in Illustrator and Photoshop, but the best stuff costs $9 a month to get the premium tutorials.  I know, paying $9/month sucks, but you get the .psd and .ai source files, which is great.

With Photoshop and Illustrator art files you can do some sweet things with Adobe After effects too!

Adobe Photoshop Packaging Tutorials

How to use Photoshop to make a branded soda bottle.

The dodge and burn tools make it easy to do highlights and the brush tool makes it easy to draw flowers (on the cap).

Adobe Illustrator Packaging Tutorials

How to use Illustrator’s 3D Effects to make a branded milk bottle. With half a bottle outline you can rotate a bottle into 3D shape quickly.

How to make a branded 3D snack pack without using Illustrators 3D effects.  The envelope distort tool is cool, but it can be painful drawing highlights all over a 3D object.

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