AI Packaging PSD

A packaging PSD is a layered design file for a box, a bag, a label or a can. Flat pictures are fine for a preview, but a printer, a client or your own next batch always needs a change: a new flavor, a corrected weight, another language. In a flat picture every change means repainting; in a layered file the word is a layer you click and type over.

AI Packaging PSD rebuilds that file from the picture you have. It finds the background, each illustration, each photo and each line of type, fills in what was hidden behind them, and returns a PSD in which each part can be moved, recolored, replaced or turned off.

This makes editable packaging out of a design that was never layered: an AI result from this site, a mockup screenshot from a client, an old file whose layers were lost, or a design you bought as a flat image.

Pick One face for a label, a pouch or bag front, a can or bottle wrap, a sleeve, or a single panel of a box. This kind gives the most editable file: the words come back as type, each with its own font and size, so text changes take seconds.

Pick Whole box for a flat box on its dieline, with all its panels in one picture. Each element on each panel comes back as its own named layer over a filled background, ready to move or swap; the words stay as pictures, exactly as they look, so the box keeps every detail of the lettering.

A result from this site picks for you: a whole box result is split as a whole box, and every label or face as one face. You can change the kind before you press Make the PSD.

Every result on the AI packaging and label pages has a Layered PSD button. It opens this page with the design, its box style or label type and its size, so the file knows exactly where the cut line, the creases, the bleed and the safe area are.

Those four guides go into a locked group at the top of the layers, named Dieline (do not print), in the colors printers expect: magenta for the cut, green dashes for creases, cyan for bleed and blue dashes for the safe area. Hide the group before you export the artwork, or keep it on to check that no word sits on a fold.

The file opens at the size the design is printed at, read from the same numbers as the print PDF, so measurements in Photoshop match the real box or label.

Once a design is in layers it works as a packaging PSD template for a whole range. Keep the background and the pictures, change the type layers for each flavor, size or scent, and export each version. The net quantity, the product name and the claims are separate layers, so a range of six labels is six edits, not six redesigns.

For a new size, open the PSD next to a dieline of the new size, move the layers onto its panels, and keep the locked guides as your check.

Each type layer names its font. When the font is installed, Photoshop sets the words in it; when it is not, Photoshop asks which font to use and keeps the size, color and spacing. The fonts named are open web fonts you can install from the same family name.

Layers are as sharp as the design that went in, up to 2048 pixels on the long side for one face and about 2K for a whole box. The original sits at the bottom of every file, hidden, so you can compare any layer with what you uploaded.