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Show backdrop with the Liquify filter in Photoshop

The Liquify filter has a useful feature which enables you to preview other layers in your image while manipulating the contents on your selected layer. This is handy when you're trying to mimic the contour of a shape on an underlying layer. Simply enable the Show Backdrop option at the bottom-right and select the layers you wish to display from the Use menu. Reducing the opacity of the backdrop layers will help you focus on your active layer.

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Designing food packaging
Food packages come in all shapes, sizes and materials, but the design principles remain the same whatever the product. Peskimo shows you how to liven up any label

Mastering InDesign preferences
InDesign is not just a tremendously powerful layout package, it’s also hugely customisable. Susannah Hall explains how to change the default settings to suit you

Creating a cardboard character
For a unique promotional item, there’s nothing like creating a cardboard character. Mark James, the man behind CardBoy, shows you how it’s done

Promo items with impact
Create an effective and technically complex piece of packaging that will launch a product in style

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Toy packaging then and now
The modern day strategies for packaging toys encompass pretty much every trick in the packaging designer’s arsenal. But has this always been the case? Dom Hall breaks open the bubble pack and finds out…

Wide-format printers - supersize your creativity
Wide-format printing used to mean outsourcing to a printer. Richard Wentk investigates whether the technology is a worthwhile in-house investment