Design a Striking Divi Product Layout with Image Perspective and Colorful Abstract Waves

When designing a product page to promote your product, it helps to include striking images combined with clean backgrounds, succinct content, and clear CTA’s. To make your page unique, adding a few creative elements can also help. So, if you are looking for a fresh product layout and a few inspirational design tips, this post is for you.

In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to use Divi to design a beautiful product layout using a few simple (yet powerful) design techniques. When creating the layout, I’ll cover how to add three-dimensional perspective to any image with one short custom CSS snippet. Then I’m going to show you how to stack section dividers to create an abstract multi-colored wave to divide your content. And, I’ll even throw in a easy tip to keep your dual CTA buttons the same width.

Sneak Peek

Here is a sneak peek of the layout we will be creating today.

What you need for this Tutorial

For this tutorial, the only design tool you will need is Divi so make sure you have your Divi theme installed and active. Then we will use the Visual Builder to create a unique hero section and the wave divider. And to finish the layout design, you will need to import elements from the Software Marketing Landing page layout from within the Divi builder. You will need to add one or two snippets of custom CSS which can easily be placed in the advanced tab of a module.

Let’s get started.

Design a Striking Divi Product Layout with Image Perspective and Colorful Abstract Waves

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Creating the Fullwidth Header

To create the fullwidth header, first create a new page and deploy the visual builder. Then add a new fullwidth section with a fullwidth header module.

Before adding the header content, go to the fullwidth section settings and update the following:

Background Gradient Color 1 (left): rgba(23,20,57,0.95)
Background Gradient Color 2 (right): rgba(136,52,253,0.98)
Place Gradient Above Background Image: YES

Notice the background gradient colors have a very slight opacity added and are placed above the background image. This will allow you to create a nice gradient overlay for your background image.

Next enter the background image.

Background Image: [insert image]

Under the design tab, add some custom padding to your section.

Custom Padding: 0px Top, 0px Right, 80px Bottom, 0px Left

Next add a white inner box shadow with a -200px vertical position. This will allow our product image (not yet added) to appear to be overlapping into the next section. This method is a little cleaner than adding negative bottom margin to our image to bring it down into the next section.

Box Shadow: [see screenshot]
Box Shadow Vertical Position: -200px
Shadow Color: #ffffff
Box Shadow Position: Inner Shadow

This will cause your visual preview of the background to disappear for now but don’t worry. It will all balance out when we add our content.

Now you can go back to your fullwidth header module settings and add the header content by updating the following:

Title: Our Product
Subheading Text: Nulla quis lorem ut libero malesuada feugiat.
Button #1 Text: Download Now
Button #2 Text: Buy License
Logo Image URL: [insert image, 100px by 100px]

Tip: Make sure your logo image is white (or light in color) since we are using a dark background.

Hop over to the Design tab and update the Text & Logo Orientation option to “centered”.

Then update the following:

Text Color: Light
Title Font: Poppins
Title Font Weight: Light
Title Text Size : 65px (desktop), 40px (smartphone)
Title Line Height: 1.5em

Subhead Font: Poppins
Subhead Font Weight: Regular
Subhead Text Size: 20px
Subhead Line Height: 1.5em

Use Custom Styles for Button Two: YES
Button Two Background Color: #1e69cb
Button Two Border Width: 0px
Button Two Border Radius: 50px
Button Two Letter Spacing: 1px
Button Two Font: Poppins

Use Custom Styles for Button One: YES
Button One Background Color: #75d334
Button One Border Width: 0px
Button One Border Radius: 50px
Button One Letter Spacing: 1px
Button One Font: Poppins

One of the unique features of the fullwidth header is the ability to add two buttons (dual CTA’s) next to each other. This is perfect for products offering both a free download and a premium license.

If you have used the dual button on your header before, you may be aware that the two buttons don’t exactly match in size because the button width adjusts depending on the amount of text in the button. To make the buttons match in width no matter the amount of text, you can add a couple of lines of custom CSS.

To add the custom CSS, go to the advanced tab and enter the following CSS snippet in the input field for both Button One and Button Two:

width: 100%;
max-width: 220px;

Save Settings.

You may need to adjust the max-width to adjust to your own button font and size. Just make sure you account for the animated icon that will need room on hover.

Adding the fullwidth Product Image

For this mock product image, I’m going to use a screenshot of the product’s user interface (UI) which, in this case, is the Divi Builder. To create the fullwidth image, add a fullwidth image module under the fullwidth header.

Then upload your image. The size of the image should be around 1920px by 1080px.

Then update the following design settings.

Width: 35% (desktop), 60% (tablet), 70% (smartphone)
Module Alignment: center

Adjusting the width of the module using percentages will help create a smoother transition when adjusting browser widths and better mobile displays.

Box Shadow: [see screenshot]
Box Shadow Vertical Position: 29px
Box Shadow Blur Strength: 72px
Box Shadow Spread Strength: -21px
Shadow Color: #27005e

Now we are ready to add our perspective and rotation to our image in order to give it that cool 3d effect. To do this, go to the advanced tab and add the following line of custom CSS (with vendor prefixes for cross browser compatibility) to the Main Element input field.

-webkit-transform: perspective(700px) rotateX(45deg);
-moz-transform: perspective(700px) rotateX(45deg);
-ms-transform: perspective(700px) rotateX(45deg);
-o-transform: perspective(700px) rotateX(45deg);
transform: perspective(700px) rotateX(45deg);

This css is doing two thing to our image using the Transform CSS Property. First, it adds a perspective of 700px. This is basically creating the amount of distance between the image and the perspective of the user when viewing the page. Right now it sits 700px away from the user. The smaller amount of pixels will bring the image closer. A larger pixel value will take it farther away. But, this perspective value alone will not produce the effect we want until we add rotation to the image. That is the next part of the transform property value. The rotateX(45deg) tells the image to rotate on the X axis 45 degrees. And because the perspective is set, the image now has a three dimensional appearance. Feel free to play with these settings to get the look you want.

Creating the Abstract Multi-Colored Wave Divider

For this next part, I’m going to get a little creative with section dividers. If you don’t already know, each section allows you to add a top and/or bottom divider to create some beautiful transitions between sections of content. For this design, I’m going to use four sections stacked on top of each other (each with top and bottom dividers). This will make it possible to overlap dividers with different colors to create a unique and colorful abstract wave. The trick is to leave your sections free of content and padding so that the section has a 0px height. Then you need to mirror the top and bottom dividers (the ones that are connected) and match them with the same color to create a single beam of color flowing across the page. When you stack the other sections and dividers, you will have a total of 3 beams of color intertwining across the page. Pretty cool.

Let’s get to it.

Adding the first Section of Dividers

Add a new regular section below your existing content, but don’t add a module. Then delete the row within the section. Remember, we don’t want any height on our sections.

Update the section design settings by adding a bottom divider.

Divider: Bottom
Divider Style: [see screenshot]
Divider Color: rgba(45,153,255,0.1)
Divider Height: 157px (desktop), 75px (tablet and smartphone)
Divider Horizontal Repeat: 2x

Then add some custom spacing that will create some needed margin above the section and zero padding. This gets rid of the section height so that the dividers will stack seamlessly on top of one another.

Custom Margin: 230px Top (desktop), 115px (tablet and smartphone)
Custom Padding: 0px Top, 0px Right, 0px Bottom, 0px Left

Adding the Second Section of Dividers

At this point you are going to repeat the same process. Add another regular section below, but don’t add a module. Then delete the row within the section.

Update the section design settings by adding a top and bottom divider.

Divider: Top
Divider Style: [see screenshot]
Divider Color: rgba(45,153,255,0.1)
Divider Height: 127px (desktop), 60px (tablet and smartphone)
Divider Horizontal Repeat: 2x

Custom Padding: 0px Top, 0px Right, 0px Bottom, 0px Left

You can already see the first wave take shape.

Divider: Bottom
Divider Style: [see screenshot]
Divider Color: rgba(117,211,52,0.08)
Divider Height: 181px (desktop), 90px (tablet and smartphone)
Divider Flip: Horizontal

This will serve as the top of the second wave that will be finished in the next section.

Adding the Third Section of Dividers

Continue to repeat the same process. Add another regular section below. Don’t add a module. Then delete the row within the section.

Then update the section design settings by adding a top and bottom divider.

Divider: Top
Divider Style: [see screenshot]
Divider Color: rgba(117,211,52,0.08)
Divider Height: 119px (desktop), 60px (tablet and smartphone)
Divider Flip: Horizontal

Custom Padding: 0px Top, 0px Right, 0px Bottom, 0px Left

You can now see the second wave take shape.

Divider: Bottom
Divider Style: [see screenshot]
Divider Color: rgba(122,112,251,0.12)
Divider Height: 72px (Desktop), 40px (tablet and smartphone)
Divider Horizontal Repeat: 2x
Divider Flip: Horizontal and Vertical

This will serve as the top of the third wave that will be finished in the next section.

Adding the Fourth Section Divider

Add one more regular section without a module. Then delete the row within the section.

Then update the section design settings by adding a top divider.

Divider: Top
Divider Style: [see screenshot]
Divider Color: rgba(122,112,251,0.12)
Divider Height: 185px (Desktop), 90px (tablet and smartphone)
Divider Horizontal Repeat: 2x
Divider Flip: Horizontal and Vertical

Custom Margin: 500px bottom (Desktop), 250px bottom (tablet and smartphone)
Custom Padding: 0px Top, 0px Right, 0px Bottom, 0px Left

Now the third wave is complete. The 500px bottom margin is to create some necessary space before your next section below the section dividers.

Here is the final result.

Import the Software Marketing Landing Page Layout

To finish off the design, import the Software Marketing Landing Page layout by going to your settings menu, clicking the Load From Library button and selecting the layout. This will load the layout under your current content so we can use different elements to finish our design. The colors and fonts also match nicely.

Once the new layout is imported, delete the first section in the layout and the last four sections of the layout. This is only my preference for this tutorial. You can of course use whatever elements you want for your own product page.

Here is what your page should look like now.

Now drag the bottom “Features” section directly below the fullwidth section and above the dividers.

Adding Perspective and Rotation to Your Featured Section Images

In the first section containing the large graphic illustration, delete the image module displaying the illustration and add a new image module with an image that displays your product interface.

Then go to the advanced tab and add the following Custom CSS inside the Main Element input field.

-webkit-transform: perspective(1000px) rotateY(-45deg);
-moz-transform: perspective(1000px) rotateY(-45deg);
-ms-transform: perspective(1000px) rotateY(-45deg);
-o-transform: perspective(1000px) rotateY(-45deg);
transform: perspective(1000px) rotateY(-45deg);

This CSS looks a lot like the first one we used in the header, but there are three minor differences. The perspective is 1000px to create greater distance. The image is now rotating on the Y axis and I used the negative 45 degree value to turn the image clockwise on the Y axis. This works well for images on the right column.

IMPORTANT NOTE: It is important that you delete the image module before adding the new image module because the previous module had animation. This animation conflicts with the CSS code we are using. So if you added the CSS and nothing changed, this is probably because you have an animation effect in place.

With the image perspective in place, go to the design tab and add a box shadow that works with the new position of the image as follows:

Box Shadow: [see screenshot]
Box Shadow Horizontal Position: 39px
Box Shadow Blur Strength: 56px
Box Shadow Spread Strength: -17px
Box Shadow Color: rgba(39,0,94,0.19)

For mobile display, you will want to adjust the size of the image to 60% on tablet with a centered alignment.

Now we are going to do the same for the next section containing the illustration. Delete the image module and add a new one with the image of your choice. Then add the following Custom CSS inside the Main Element input field.

-webkit-transform: perspective(1000px) rotateY(45deg);
-moz-transform: perspective(1000px) rotateY(45deg);
-ms-transform: perspective(1000px) rotateY(45deg);
-o-transform: perspective(1000px) rotateY(45deg);
transform: perspective(1000px) rotateY(45deg);

The only difference here is the rotation. Since this image is set to rotate a positive 45 degrees, the image now rotates counter clockwise. This works well for images in the left column.

Finally, go to the design tab and add the following box shadow settings:

Box Shadow: [see screenshot]
Box Shadow Horizontal Position: -39px
Box Shadow Blur Strength: 56px
Box Shadow Spread Strength: -17px
Box Shadow Color: rgba(39,0,94,0.19)

For mobile display, you will want to adjust the size of the image to 60% on tablet with a centered alignment.

That’s it! Let’s check out the final result.

Mobile Responsive

With the mobile adjustments made along the way, your layout will look great on tablet and smartphone.

The only modification I would suggest is to add the following Custom CSS to your Page Settings or Theme Customizer:

@media (max-width: 757px) {
.et_pb_button_two.et_pb_button {
  margin-left: 0px !important;
  } 
}

This takes out the margin between the two buttons so that they align perfectly when stacked on mobile.

Here is what it looks like on tablet and smartphone.

Final Thoughts

Adding perspective and rotation to your images is really easy to do once you know how the transform property value works and where to add that CSS snippet. And the effect is pretty impressive. These images really do “stand out”. Of course, this design is not limited to product images. You can add perspective to any image you want on any page you want.

The abstract wave design will not be for everyone. I get it. But, just think of all the different designs one can make by using this method of stacking section dividers with multiple colors. With so many divider styles, heights, and colors, you might end up spending the rest of the day creating for the fun of it. These stacked dividers would also serve as a unique background for certain content.

Anyway, I hope you are inspired to add some of these design techniques to your own site, and, as always, I look forward to hearing from you in the comments.

Cheers!