Learn how to effortlessly showcase your designs in real-life settings using pre-made Photoshop mock-ups. This article outlines where to find mock-ups and how to quickly insert your artwork into them using smart objects.
Key Insights
- Pre-made Photoshop mock-ups can be found through various websites—both free and paid—offering templates for business cards, clothing, bottles, and other objects to simulate real-life design usage.
- Using mock-ups can save significant time and effort compared to creating custom scenes or conducting product photography from scratch.
- Noble Desktop demonstrates how these mock-ups are built using smart objects, allowing users to easily insert layered artwork into editable templates.
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Let's say that you have a design and you want to put it into a more realistic kind of mock-up to show your design in something. Let's say you have a business card or you have a logo that you want to put somewhere on the hat or some clothing or some use and you want to show kind of a real life use. There are a lot of pre-made mock-ups that you can download.
You can either pay for them or there are free ones available. Here's an example of a business card in an environment and I want to show you how you can go find these and then how you can very easily put your designs into those really without having to do a lot of work on your own end. In a later video we'll take a look at how we can create our own custom ones of these if you want to make your own but there are a lot of ones that are pre-made that you can use and even if you're paying some money for these it can save you a lot of time instead of having to make it all up yourself.
So you can in Google just type in Photoshop mock-ups and there's going to be a lot of different Photoshop mock-ups. There's lots of different websites. Again some of these are paid, some are free, but even if you're spending let's say $20 what is worth your time and effort of having to try to create these things, do the photography.
There's all sorts of different uses. You can put things on bottles, you can put things into environments. All of these things are where you can put your artwork into real life looking things and you know there's lots of different websites with lots of different mock-ups out there and so like I said some of these are free, some you can pay for, all different examples there.
So this is one that I downloaded for free and I'm going to show you how to use it but just a little bit of background of how this was created and like I said in a later exercise I'll show you more in depth of how to create a custom one of these yourself but just as a quick idea of how these in general are going to work is the person who created those would have placed in a smart object. It would have created a smart object so essentially they would place something in and they would place in a layered Photoshop document so that inside of that it supports layers. It would not be something like a JPEG because we want to be able to edit the contents of this and put our own things which could be many layers inside of this smart object.