Cereal box: Development stage 2

Photoshop stage

The first thing we ha to do was import our scan into Photoshop. Once we had done this we continued by creating a layer for the scan, we cropped the scan so that we weren't working with a large area or paper this made it easier to control our scan and manoeuvre it around our page. Once we had it set up we used the Levels tool under the Adjustments bar to make our pencil line stand out. We achieved this by using the sliders to make the pencil lines stand out from the white background. This would make it easier to work with later on in Illustrator.

Illustrator stage 

We then imported the net we would use as a marker for our own rectangles. We made the first rectangle 70mm by 105mm by using the options in the top bar of the reacting tool options. We duplicated this movement several times for the tabs and the different faces of our box. This was a quick and simple way of creating our net instead of creating the net from scratch by ourselves. 

Once we had our net we placed our scan into an area of the net. Mine wasn't the correct size which is why I had problems with scaling, I therefore decided to create the Illustrations separately and then scaling them up so they fit better inside the rectangle of my net. 

I used the Pen tool to create my character and the various line strokes. I used different colours that I tried and decided that this one was the best. This was my completed front cover until I realised that I had missed the S off of BOLTS. I went back to Illustrator and added this to the title. I then made a pattern while I was back in Illustrator which I felt made my design look a lot more interesting and pleasing with the concept I had.

This is my completed net that I will print out and put together, I have added pattern onto my design in the style of nuts and bolts just to make the design look more interesting and make it fit in with the concept of the name of the cereal more. I am happy with how the box has turned out now it has been vectorised, the pattern and the Illustration work well together in creating a new cereal name concept which I feel is fun and relates to a younger target audience.