Create Unique Framed Art Mock-ups with Adobe Firefly & Adobe Photoshop

1. Introduction & Class Overview: Creating your own realistic framed art maps in Adobe Photoshop is much easier and faster than you might think. And by taking advantage of Adobe firefly to generate interior images, you can showcase your work in any design setting, which perfectly matches the style and vibe of your work and resonates with your audience. I'm Jen creative. And in this class, I'm excited to share with you how to get the most out of B file ply when generating interior images of framed art Mc ups. And step by step, walk through the process of creating two types of framed art mockups in B photoshop, including the super easy ones using straight on images over the picture frames, and more advanced ones, using side on images with the perspective distortions and some reflections. In this class, you'll also learn how to write effective prompts for generating captivating interior images for your framed art mop, how to take advantage of the various attacks and settings available in other B firefight. To find the of your generated images, how to use structure references to generate interior images of the specific compositions and exact proportions of the picture frames and how to develop customized and clean up your generated images using a range of photoshop to, including the new generative AI features. To follow along, you'll need access to Adobe fire fight in the latest version of Adobe Photoshop. Whether you want to create your very first mock up from scratch in OB photoshop add some new tricks and techniques for creating realistic mockup for your creative toolkit or simply want to learn how to generate exciting interior images in AB firefly. This is the class for you. If you like me, aboard of C and using the same old mock ups over and over again and aspire to showcase your work in a more engaging and original way. Join me in this class, let's create some unique mock ups. You work deserves. 2. Getting Started with Adobe Firefly: Let's begin with a quick overview of Adobe firefight. Adobe Firefly is a web app, which you can access through your browser. Technically, you can use firefight on any device. But I would highly recommend generating your images on your computer and using the same browser. This will allow you to take full advantage of firefight and store your favorite generations in one place for future reference. You can start generating images in a fi fly in a few different ways. You can go to your home page and type your prompt in this field, or you can go to the text to image option. Click on it. Then click on any image you have in front of you in the gallery. And this will bring you to the actual interface with all of the controls and settings. In the model drop down, select Firefly image two, which will allow you to generate photoralistic images. You might have some new models available here, which in the long run might generate even better results. But in this class, I'll be using image two model. A at the moment, it works better for generating interior images for framed art mock ups. Next, make sure to select photo here to generate photoralistic images. As with all things, AI, it is all about the quality of your prompts. But the great thing about BFI is that there are a lot of settings you can use to customize the look of your generated images. These include various effects you can assign to your images, color lighting and camera angle settings. And when the content type is set to photo, you can also specify particular camera and lens settings, you would like to emulate. Apart from all the specific controls, there is also the visual intensity slider which allows you to control how realistic your images look. With the slider set to the left position, five will generate realistic images. And with the slider set to the right position, you'll end up with more surreal stuff. You can play around with the slider, but I would recommend setting it either to the middle or to the left to generate realistic images. There is also a style strength slider which allows you to adjust how much the aesthetic of your generated images is affected by all of the effects and settings below, and how much they modify or enhance what is specified in your prompt. You can also customize the aesthetic of your generated images using your own style references or those included in firefly. And use the structure references to generate images with a specific composition. I will share with you my tips for using all these five fly settings in the following lessons. But first, let's talk about writing effective prompts for generating interior images of framed art mock ups. 3. Prompt for Generating Images of Frames in Interiors: To generate the best possible images using AI, your prompts must be clear, descriptive, and specific. And to be able to generate images which will make exciting mock ups, your prompts will need to include a few important things. Start by describing the type of shot you want to generate. For example, a straight on shot, a side on shot or a top down shot. Next, describe the picture frame you want to turn into a mockup. And then you need to go into some detail about the general setting and all of the elements you want to have in your image. And on top of that, to generate images with just the look you like. You need to specify the style of the interior, a mode and feel you want your image to have and describe the lighting conditions. With a descriptive prompt, which has got all these elements, you'll be able to generate exciting images even without styling them using the effects and settings available in adobe firefly. To make it easier for you to get started with your prompt. I have created for you a prompt template and some mix and match suggestions which you can use when generating your images. So don't hesitate to download it from the class resources. But of course, it is all up to your imagination, and you can go in any direction you want and just use the general structure of what needs to be included in your prompt and describe exactly what you have in mind. And here is the example prompt. I'll be using to generate my images. So for me, it will be a straight on shot of a white living room wall with a modern slick minimalist black four by five picture frame hanging above a mid century modern console table. So this describes my subject and the general setting, as well as the technical aspect of the shot. Next, I want to describe the setting in more detail. So I want to have a bird of paradise plant in a pot on the floor next to the console table, a large low pile white trap on the floor in front of the console table. A stack of large designer coffee table books on top of the console table with a white container candle on top of them, and even si plant in a slick ceramic pot. You don't have to go into so much detail if you don't want to and leave it for AI to interpret it any way it wants. But I like it to be a little bit more predictable, so I don't end up with some random and weird stuff in my images, always boring and empty sets. Next, I describe the style as a Scandinavian style and natural light cram in from the window and cozy and tranquil atmosphere. And this should be enough to generate some exciting images. When writing your props for images for the framed art mockups, make sure you describe your picture frames style and size in detail to avoid ending up with something weird and random. You can also include the word blank in the description of your picture frame. But from experience, it is not usually necessary. Just avoid writing framed artwork or something like this, which will make firefly fill the frame with something of its own choosing. If you are after particular compositions, proportions and shapes of the objects in your mockups and especially specific scale and aspect ratio of your picture frames, you can also take advantage of the structure references. You can download a few structure references, you can use to get started from the class resources. And if you use structure references, you'll need to make sure that your prompt describes the elements in your reference and doesn't contradict it. So this is something to keep in mind for now and I'll cover using structure references in more detail later in the class. When coming up with your prompts, I would recommend drafting them first in the notes app or any other app you use for writing and planning things. And when ready, copy and paste your prompt into the prompt field in firefly. And then join me in the next lesson, and you shall quickly share with you if you tips for choosing the aspect tracia of your generated images. 4. Choosing Aspect Ratio: With your prompt ready, before you hit the generate button, make sure you go and select your desired aspect ratio. At the moment, you can generate images in four different sizes and aspectrato. And I would highly recommend picking the aspect ratio, which is closest to the outcome you want to create. For example, if you want to create a mockup for sharing on Instagram as a post, select a portrait three by four aspect ratio, which is the closest aspectrato 24 by five, which is ideal for Instagram posts. Only four aspectratios and sizes might seem like a limiting factor, but don't worry. You can easily extend your images in AOB photoshop to fit your desired format afterwards. And I'll show you how to use the new AI features in Adobe Photoshop to extend your images and add some new elements to them later in the class. So select the closest aspectratio to your intended final format. And then let's move on to generating some images. 5. Generating & Saving Your First Images: After you have selected the desired aspect ratio, double check that the content type is set to photo and then remove all of the effects you might have here, so you only see the photo tag like this. And then go ahead and hit this button to generate some images. And if your prompt is descriptive and specific like my one here, your first set of images should look pretty decent straightaway. You can keep on generating more images by hitting this button, but because you never end up with the same results, make sure that you download all of the images that you like to your computer. I usually save most of them because it is easier for me to go through them on my computer afterwards and view them in full size, and then simply delete any images which are completely unusable. Apart from downloading your images to your computer or any other device you are generating them on. You can also save them to your creative cloud library. And this can be useful if you want to be able to seamlessly access your images on another device. And apart from downloading and saving your images to your creative cloud library, you can also add them to favorites by clicking on this button here. This will add your selected image to your firefly favorites, which will be kept in your current browser. Because adding to favorites allows you to see your prompt and the firefly settings used for generating each image, I would recommend adding all of the images which you like to your favorites for future reference. But don't rely purely on favorites and always download all of the images that you like to avoid losing them. When you're generating your images, you might notice some weird random things happening in them, but don't worry about things like this because you can easily remove any weird stuff from your generated images in Photoshop. And also, don't worry if five light decides to generate you some artwork inside of the picture frame. This is no problem at all, and you will be able to easily remove and replace your image within the picture frame afterwards. After generating your first set of images, you can carry on generating more completely different images. Or if you like the look of one of the images from this set, you can also generate some images similar to it by using this option here. And this will generate you a few alternatives using the aspects of your selected image as a reference. For example, in this case, it took into account the style of the console table here. So again, save all of the images which you like. And then if you want carry on generating more images based on the selected image, or generate some fresh images from scratch. So these are the basics of generating and saving your images in a Dobby firefight. In the next lesson, we're going to have a look at how you can further customize your images, in various effects and settings. 6. Customising Your Images With Effects & Settings: To customize the look of your generated images and build on top of what is specified in your prompt, you can use various effects and settings available in Adobe firefight. First of all, have a look at the movement section and select any effect or effect which can help you to create the specific interior style you're after. Choose an effect which works with your prompt and can help you to enhance the look, but make sure that it doesn't contradict your prompt. For example, in my case, I could use the minimalism effect here to enhance the minimal Scandinavian style. Or I could use the industrial effect to add a bit Mmusculinity to the objects and textures in the image. To add effects to your future generations, simply click on the effect you want to use, and you will see the effect tag pop up here. And after adding your effect or effects, hit generate to create a new set of images. And then proceed as usual by saving any images you like and adding them to your favorites. When I start adding effect and customizing fire fight settings, I also usually grab a full screenshot of each generated set with the prompt field and all of the edit effects and the other custom settings. And I would highly recommend you to do the same if you don't have some easily accessible reference images to be able to study how different effects and settings affect your images. Remember that when you start applying different effects, five will still take into account what is specified in your prompt. And you might not notice a huge difference, especially if your prompt is very descriptive. If you want your applied effects to have a more pronounced effect on your generated images, make sure you set the style strength to the maximum and try simplifying your prompt and how you describe the style and vibe of your interior. Apart from exploring different movement effects, when generating interior images, check out the effects in the them section, namely interior design and cinematic effect. Interior design effect will help you create cleaner images which look like interior design shots with an accent on interior decor and everything looking sharp. And in this case, together with the minimalism effect, interior design effect helps to create slightly more detailed sets, which are a nice and crisp. And if I remove the interior design effect and apply the cinematic effect instead. Five, you'll add a bit more character to the images and create more interesting lighting. Cinematic effect usually helps to make images look a little more lively, so it is usually my goal to effect for all sorts of lifestyle images. When you start mixing different effects together, keep in mind that they will also affect each other. So you can play around with different effect combinations and see how it changes your generated images. But with this kind of images, one effect on top of a good descriptive prompt is usually enough. For example, in this case, I am going to remove the minimalism effect and only keep the cinematic effect, and this should help to make my images look a little less clinical. Apart from adding different effects. You can go to the section here and customize the look of your images using the lighting settings. In my images, I like having moody lighting, so I usually use the dramatic light. But you can also try using other lighting options here. For example, golden hour, Harsh light or studio light. If they work for the vibe, you want to create. Cinematic effect and dramatic light combo usually helps to add a bit more personality to the images and make them less clean in a good way. And this somewhat helps with the realism. So if you're after creating quasy interiors, these are two settings, I would highly recommend you to use and generate a few sets to see how the look develops. Apart from using the lighting settings, you can also explore various options available in the color and tone and camera angle dropdowns to further customize the images. These are pretty self explanatory, play around with these settings as you see fit. As you can only select one of each of these options at a time, I would recommend applying the surface detail camera angle here, nginerating some images. Surface detail usually helps to enhance the look of the textures in your images. So it is another important medifi to keep in mind. The more you generate, the more varied your sets will become. But you might also start noticing some weird things happening in your images. For example, the picture frames might start to get filled with the images of plants or plants from the pots or *** in the set might start making their way into the frames, for example, like here. Again, you'll be able to easily clean up the contents of the frames in photoshop. But that said, to avoid doing too much retchion. It is best to avoid any images where a plant starts from a pot or outside the frame, and then somehow becomes an artwork within it. To customize your images even further, you can also play around with the photo settings. By default, they set to auto. SoFi uses the photo settings, which suit your prompt and other effects and settings. But if you have something specific in mind, for example, a wider angle or a smaller aperture, go ahead and change these settings manually. That said, interior images are pretty straightforward. So you can usually rely on using the auto settings. So play around with applying different movements effects to enhance the style of your images, add the interior design effect as a modifier to create super clean images, add the cinematic effect, to make your images look more lively and use the lighting effect which suits your style. And when you're done playing around with the effects and settings, join me in the next lesson, which I'll walk you through the process of customizing your images using style references. 7. Using Style References: Apart from styling your images using different effects and settings available in Firefly, you can give your generated images a unique look by using reference images. These can be your own photographs. Stop photographs you have got rights to use. Or as the last resort, you can explore some references available in Firefly. To add your own style reference image, click on the image U uploader here, and select your desired image. For example, I'm going to try using this image of a wall in our studio. So upload your image. Then it continue. And you will see your uploaded image pop up here. And now with your style reference ready, proceed as usual to generate your images. When using style references, firefly takes into account the specific technical properties. For example, my reference photo is not very bright and has a shallow depth of field. And you can see how it affects these generated images here. So depending on your reference image, your generated images might end up a little to messy, dark, or bright, moody, or blurry and not particularly suitable for use as mock ups. But if you have some effects added to your images, these will affect the look as well. So after generating some images with the style reference to turn them down a little, you can remove some of the effects, which might affect the look in a negative way. For example, I am going to remove all of these effects. So there are only the style reference and photo tags left here. And to make my images cleaner and crisper, I'm going to add the interior design effect instead and try generating more images. And this worked pretty well. These images now take into account some of the aspects of my reference image, such as spots of the orange color, but they are much cleaner and more suitable for use as mops. So remember that the interior design effect helps to generate cleaner interior images, but also don't feel like you have to discard all other effects at the same time. Best experiment with different effects combinations, which makes sense for the wipe you want to have in your image and play around with the style strength slider to further alter the look of your generated images and how much they are affected by the effects and your reference image. Play around with using style reference images if you want to, but don't feel obliged to do so. If you manage to generate some exciting images which sit your style by using just your prompt and some effects. Next, let's explore how you can generate images with more predictable and precise compositions using structure references. Okay. 8. Using Structure References: If you want to generate images with a specific composition and predictable shapes and elements, you'll need to use structure references. And when it comes to generating interior images for framed art makeups, using structure references will allow you to have control over the aspect ratio scale and placement of the picture frames in relation to other elements. Generating images based on the structure references is a more involved process in comparison to just working with the prompts and settings. And it requires some during skills or having some reference photographs or renders the desired composition, you should have a right to use If you are using drawings, these don't need to be super detailed. But having clean lines and correct geometry and perspective is important for achieving the best possible results. For your first experiments with the structure references, don't hesitate to grab and use some of the reference images I have provided in the class resources. To get a cleaner result, I'm going to discard my style reference here, but you can play around with using style reference at the same time if you want. I'm also going to remove the interior design effect and instead go and add my favorite cinematic effect. If you have some favorite effects and settings combination from your previous generations, go ahead and add them now. Then let's go to the structure reference panel and add a reference image here. Select your desired reference image. For example, I'm going to use this image, I have shared in the class resources. As you can see from this image, it includes all of the elements I have described in my prompt, and it just puts them into a particular composition, making it easier for Firefly to interpret the prompt. Make sure that the structure reference that you use visualizes your prompt and doesn't contradict it. This image here also features a ceiling light, which is not mentioned in my prompt. And you'll see in a moment how Firefly deals with the elements which are not specified. So with your structure reference selected, hit upload, and you'll see the image added here and in the prompt field here as well. In the structure reference panel, there is a strength slider, which you can use to adjust how much generated images adhere to the structure in the reference image. If you are using well drawn images with fin lines and correct geometry in perspective, set the strength to maximum to make your generated images perfectly adhere to the structure in your reference image. And if you are working with a less perfect drawing a rough sketch or a photograph, or simply want to use the structure reference as a rough guide. It is better to set the strength slider to a lower value. Otherwise, you'll end up with something one key. With a low medium structure reference strength, Firefly will loosely interpret your structure reference, and it will create more varied compositions. This could work well too. But since the main benefit of using structure references for the sort of images is the ability to generate picture frames in the exact aspect ratio and scale in relation to other objects. I would recommend using clean and precise structure reference images and keeping the structure strength set to maximum. And then you can have a ton of fun by generating multiple sets with the same composition, but in different interior styles, colors, and materials. After setting up your structure reference, go ahead and generate some new images. After you have generated your first set of images using structure reference, you might notice some elements looking a little unrealistic. For example, I noticed that quite often plants start to look pretty plastic. If this happens to you, be sure to go to the style settings and reduce the visual intensity setting to try to make your images look more realistic. And then generate more images. When using maximum structure reference strength, it is a good idea to describe all of the elements you have in your structure reference to avoid surprises. For example, I didn't mention the light fixture, and you can see the varied results in all these images. Sometimes it is fun to leave something to AI's interpretation. But if you want everything to be predictable and not to waste your generative credits on something completely random, make sure that you nail your prompt before you hit the generate button. Another thing to remember is that firefly tends to pick up some of the descriptions and then apply them to other objects which lack a complete description. For example, the color of the console table was not specified in my prompt, and it ended up being black. So if you don't want to have some random colors or materials in your images, addit your prompt to include more detailed descriptions. For example, I'll add white here, and then go, nginerate some more images. So I play around with using structure references to generate more predictable compositions and explore different visual intensity and style strength settings, as well as different effects, lighting and camera angle settings and see what you end up with. And now that we have covered how to generate your images and customize, let's quickly recap what to pay attention to when generating images for framed art mops. 9. Recap & Tips for Generating Images for Framed Art Mock-ups: To get the best results when generating images of picture frames in the interior settings, I recommend relying on Good prompt and only mildly modifying your images using movements and films effects and enlighten settings. It is best to experiment with different things in your prompt. For example, vary the type of short you are generating the style of the picture frame, the elements you have in your image, the general style of your setting, or lighting conditions. Also, don't forget to generate both straight on and side on images of the picture frames so that you can explore both of the following photoshop techniques I'll be showing you in a moment and equip yourself with a range of different images you can use to showcase your work. And remember that you can simply switch up the type of short description in your prompt to create more cups with a frame on a different angle, but with the same wipe. So generate as many different interior images with frames as you like. Download them to your computer, and then join me in the next lesson we're going to work on preparing generated images for use as framed art Maps in Adobe Photoshop. 10. Preparing Your Image for Creating a Mock-up: Straight on framed art mock ups are the easiest ones to create. And if you've been lucky and managed to generate some images which don't require any alterations, you'll be able to turn them into mokps in just a few simple steps. So open an image with a straight on view of the frame in Photoshop, and let's get started. For demonstration, I'm going to be using this image here. It is pretty good as it is, but I have generated it in a square format by mistake. So in a later lesson, I will also show you how you can extend your images if you end up in the same situation, we simply need to change your images aspect ratio for your desired output. But before we get into all this additional stuff, let's quickly turn this frame into a mop. Even if you have an empty frame or a frame with a frame mount or mut like I've got here, it is still a good idea to make this area blank so that you can choose the size of the image you place within the frame and have an option of filling the whole frame or imitating a frame mount yourself afterwards. To remove anything you might have within your picture frame, select the rectangular mark and draw a selection within the frame which you want to clean up. This sort of selection will work for me because I don't need to go up to the edge of the frame as it is just fine. With your selection ready, go to the contextual task bar. And if you don't see it in your workspace, go to the window menu and make sure that it is checked here. Here, hit the generative field button. Leave the prompt field empty and generate. And just like this, the content of the frame has been cleaned up. And not only that, but the lighting still looks realistic within the frame. You'll see the generated results in the properties panel, and you can choose between different variations here. And you can generate more options by hitting the generate button here. Keep on generating new variations until we find something which works really well. In my case, I'm pretty happy with this original variant. You will still be able to access all these options afterwards as long as you keep your layer set to generative here, then don't sterze it. In this case, I don't need any other options, so I can just discard them like this. GeneratFll works best if you have some highlights and shadows in your frame, which you don't want to lose whilst cleaning it up. Alternatively, you can use the new removed tool like so, which works best for removing any images from the frames and creating a blank and plain surface within the frames instead. Choose between these two techniques depending on the original content of your frame. Clean it up, and then join me in the next lesson in which I'll show you how to turn your image into easily editable mock up. Okay. 11. Creating a Simple Framed Art Mock-up: With the frame prepared. Now let's move on to adding some art into it. Start by switching to the rectangle tool. Draw a rectangle inside of the frame in your desired size. You can have some border around your rectangle if you want to include a frame mount or a simple border, or you can go up to the edges of the actual frame. If you do that, make your rectangle slightly bigger than the frame, so you can mask everything out around the edges of the frame to make it fit seamlessly. I'm going to make my rectangle a little bit smaller, so I have a nice frame around it. Then switch to the selection tool, and position it perfectly within the frame. Next, go to the layers panel. Rename the layer with your rectangle to framed art. Then right click on this layer and convert it to a smart object. Next, double click on the smart objects layers Pum nail. And this will open its contents in a separate document. And this is where you're going to be placing your artwork. So go to the file menu. And select place embedded. Select the artwork you want to place in your mop. And he place. Scale and position it within your canvas to fully cover it and he enter. After you have placed your artwork, you can go ahead and delete the layer with the rectangle. Then save the smart objects contents. Close this document, and go back to the main file. Now to make this image look more realistic, we need to blend this artwork with the layer below. So go to the layers panel. Select the layer with your artwork and set its blending mode to multiply. And this is p. Working with an empty white frame makes it super easy to create more cops like this. I will cover a more complex blending technique later in this class. But for this kind of mock ups, you really don't need to do more than this to make them look convincing. Now you can leave your artwork with the border within the frame like this. Or you can very easily elevate the look by creating a simple frame mount effect. And this is what I'll be sharing with you in the next lesson. 12. Creating a Frame Mount Effect: Leaving a wide border around your artwork can totally work. Since it is a pretty common way of how framed art is displayed. But if you're after a more classy look, you can very easily create a frame mount effect. To add a frame mount effect to you mock up. Start by going to the artwork layer in layers panel. Click on it, and select blending options. Here, select Bevel and Emboss. Click on it. And then go ahead and set up the L. Set the style to Atol technique to chisel hard. Direction to down. Then change the depth to your liking. Set the size to one pixel, which works well with the size of the generated images can make sure that soften is set to zero. And then you can go and play around with the shade and options. Angle controls the direction of the light. So in my case, the lights coming from this side. So 30 degrees works all right. But if you have light coming from another direction, you can rotate it around until you create a realistic effect. Altitude controls the height of the light, and again, you can play around with change in it to measure the light and conditions in your generated image. In this case, 3040 works well. You can also play around with the apacity of the highlights and shadows if you want to make them more or less pronounced. And lastly here, you can have a look at the gloss contra options. The standard linear usually works quite well, but you can also check out Cove Dep option for a more subtle or the Gaussian one for a more pronounced one. I'm going to keep mine set to linear. So make sure that your settings look more or less like this and these check boxes are checked. And click a K to apply changes. Because we are working with a smart object, the babble and in both settings are added as effects to the layer, and you can easily change them by double clicking on them here. So this is how easy it is to convert a straight on image of a picture frame into a more up of a framed art with a boder or a frame mot. Next, let's have a look at how you can extend your images and add some new generative elements to further develop the SAP. 13. Extending & Customising Your Generated Images: If you get lucky with Adobe firefly, your generated images won't require any modifications or retouching. But even then, you still might need to crop or extend them to make them fit into the required output format. So in this lesson, I will show you how you can extend and customize your images with additional generative elements using the new generative features in Adobe Photoshop. Picking up from where we left off in the previous lesson. Before we do anything else. Let's quickly save this document. Set format to photoshop. Make sure layers are selected and embed the color profile and heat save. To extend your image, select the crop tool, then go to the layers panel and select your background layer with your original generated image. This will ensure that the generative expand will take into account only the contents of this layer, and these layers will stay above it. Next, go to the contextual task bar and select the desired aspect ratio. You can select something from the preset or set your own width and height and resolution. I'm going to select four by five to prepare my image as a post for Instagram. With the aspect ratio selected, go and recite the crop box. I would recommend using the width or full height of your existing image and extending it only vertically or horizontally. So in this case, I'm going to be generating a little bit of wall above my image and some floor here. If necessary, ne image within the composition, if you need to adjust it, and when ready he generate. Again, you'll see the generated variations in the properties panel. So look through them and see if there is something decent. If the first generated set doesn't make the cut, go ahead and it generate once again. Pick the option you like. Orry on generating more options until you find something which works. When you have found something that you want to use, go ahead and delete all the generations, you definitely don't want to keep. And if you leave a few options here, you will be able to switch between them later on. In this case, I'm generally not too fast about how the flow looks here because I still want to generate a rag on top of it. So with the image extended, the next optional step is to customize it and you can use the following technique to add any new elements to your image or to cover up any existing elements with something different. To generate new elements, start by selecting either the rectangular or elliptical market tool or the lasso tool. And then create a selection in the spot which you want to feel with your new object. With the selection ready, again, go to the contextual task bar. Type the prompt for what you want to generate. In my case, it is going to be minimalist large light beige low pile ug. And with the prompt ready, let's generate. Again, look for the options or generate more. If you want to have a few more things to explore. I quite like this rug from the original set, so I'm going to stop here. You can carry on generating more elements if you need to add more stuff to your composition, but I'm pretty happy with how the set looks as it is. So next, I'm going to move on to tighten things up and removing some awareness and imperfections to make the image look more realistic. 14. Tips for Retouching Generated Images: Okay. Cleaning up your images and removing any Dodge stuff firefly has generated, doesn't take a lot of time, but it is also not something you have to do if all these weird things are not to noticeable at the first glance. But in this case, I want to quickly tidy up this area around the leaves. Regenerate a little bit of the leave here and make sure that everything looks as real as possible. Before I proceed, again, I'm going to quickly save my document. Then zooming into my image and inspect which areas I need to tidy up. You can edit this kind of stuff in a few different ways, but it is best to do it non destructively. So start by creating a new layer in the layers panel, which should be above you set, but below the smart object with your artwork. So select your new layer, and then use any of the retachon tools to clean things up. I'm going to start by using the spot healing brush tool. Make sure that the sample all layers is checked here. And then go and brush around the areas, which I want to tie the up. This tool is good for removing some small imperfections from the background. But to work with something a little bit more specific. For example, like here, I would use the clone stamp tool and cover the imperfections up this way. If you want to learn in more detail about the non destructive retaching workflow and using various retaching tools in Ado photoshop, don't hesitate to check out our class, beginners guide to retachon old photographs in Ad photoshop. Apart from doing some manual retention, you can also take advantage of the generative field tool and use it to restore or cover up some elements in your image. To select specific areas, switch to the tool and then carefully draw a selection in a free hand manner. For example, I want to generate a missing bit of the leaf here. Keep the prompt field empty to generate the elements in a context kind of way and repair existing elements, or use a prompt, if you want to generate something different or specific. As usual, select your preferred variant or carry on generating more. And then repeat the process to retouch any other elements in your image, which don't look quite right. The new generative fill tool makes it super easy to restore or replace elements in your images. So use this technique when it gets too difficult or time consuming to retouch elements manually. Now, I think I am probably done with this plant here as it looks good enough. After generating new elements, if you want to do a bit more manual retachion, remember to use your separate retchion layer, and then switch back to any of the traditional retachion tools and carry on working on your image until there are no more glaring issues left. It can be easy to get carried away when customizing and retouching generated images, but try not to obsess too much over small details and concentrate on the elements which definitely look odd in an AI kind of way. And regardless of how much or how little work you do on your image, when you're ready with all your layers, there is some essential housekeeping and layer prep which needs to be done. And I'll cover it in the next lesson. 15. Organising Your Mock-up File: When generating or removing elements, or if you're doing some touch ups, you're going to end up with quite a few layers in your layers panel. So when you're done with all this work, it is best to select all your layers apart from your smart object layer with your artwork. Group them, rename the group to set, and convert the group into a smart object. Then you'll be able to make any changes you need within the smart object document and keep you made mockup file neat and tidy. Another benefit of combining all your set layers into one smart object is that it allows you to easily apply any adjustments or filters to all these layers as one. For example, you might want to edit this as a photograph. In this case, select your smart object layer is the set? Go to the filter, menu? Select camera or filter. And edit this image as you would edit any photograph. For example, one quick thing I like to do is to go to the effect section and add a little bit of grain. About ten is good on the amount, then I usually change the size to about 20 to make it a little bit more. And then I go and play around with the roughness to create the look I like. You can also make any color or exposure adjustments here or generally make any changes to the image you want. I won't be making any additional changes to this image. But if you want to learn how to edit color photographs and create different exciting looks, don't hesitate to check out our class on advanced color editing. When you're done making changes in the camera filter, click Okay, and it will be applied as a smart filter to your smart object with the image. And because your artwork layer is set to multiply, you will be able to see the grain through the image. When you're done extending and finalizing your image, be sure that you save your PSD document. And then go and save it in the required formed size for your output. So this is how you can create super simple framed art mock ups, using generated images and customize your images using the new generative tools in Adobe Photoshop. Have fun creating this kind of mock ups, and then join me in the next lessons to explore techniques for creating more complex framed art mops, featuring some perspective distortions and reflections. Okay. 16. Creating a Placeholder for a Side-on Framed Art Mock-up: If you want to showcase your work in a more complex setting with a frame, being on an angle. The process of preparing a mockup will entail a few extra steps, which include transforming your placeholder, masking it within the frame and behind some foreground objects, and imitating realistic reflections and shadows you might have in your picture frame. And this is what I'll be covering in this and the following two lessons. For this demonstration, I'm going to use this image, which I have generated using this prompt. And to save some time preparing this image, I have already done some minor touch ups to get this set ready for use. So get your side on the image of the picture frame ready using the techniques I have covered in the previous lessons, and let's begin turning it into a mop. Again, when you have your image and all additional retaing or generative layers ready, select all of them. Rub them together. Rename the group to set, and convert it into a smart object. As you can get away with not converting all your layers into a smart object if you're working on a simpler mockup. In this case, you'll definitely need to convert all these layers into a single smart object. In order to be able to use the copies of this layer to create shading and highlights later on in the process. With the set smart object ready. Next, let's prepare the place holder for our art. In this case, I'm going to create a place holder which fills the entire frame. To create your place holder, again, select the rectangle tool. And start by drawing a rectangle roughly in the size of your frame. Next, change the field color to some bright color which you can see over your image. Set stroke to. And turn down the opacity of this layer to be able to see the image behind it. In any side on images, your frame will be in perspective. So your image needs to be distorted and squashed a little in order to make it look realistic. And to achieve this, you will need to make your rectangle wider than the frame to begin with. In this case, it doesn't need to be much wider because the angle is not too acute. But if you're dealing with the frame in more perspective, make sure you make it a little bit wider. Make your placeholder also a little bit taller than your frame. To ensure that you won't be scaling your artwork up afterwards and losing the quality. Basically, look at the contents of the frame and bod aspect ratio of the placeholder, and when you're happy with it, switch to the selection tool. Then go to the layers panel. Rename the rectangle layer to artwork. Right click on it and convert it to smart object. Next, let's transform this rectangle to fit into the frame. Switch to the fritransform tool. Zoom into the first corner, you want to move and holding down the command key or control key in the windows, move the corner of the place holder just over the inside frame edge like this. Then go to another corner and repeat the process. And then continue until you get all four corners in the correct position. Make sure your place holder goes over all edges of the frame. And then hit enter. Making your place holder go slightly over the edges of the frame, we'll ensure that you won't end up with having any empty pixels between the edge of your artwork and the frame. With the place holder ready, the next step is to work on the mask to hide the areas where the artwork overlaps the frame, and to make the artwork appear as if it is behind any objects in front of the frame. For example, like these leaves here. So create and transform your placeholder and then join me in the next lesson in which I'll walk you through the process of masking it. 17. Masking Your Artwork: If you want your artwork to fill your entire frame or if you have some objects in front of the frame. You'll need to mask your artwork. The first step is to create a selection for your future mask. Let's start by hiding the artwork. Place hold the layer, and then select the layer with our set. To create a selection of the area within the frame and behind any foreground object, you can use any tools you want. And this will depend on the tools you're comfortable using and the complexity of the objects in your image. If everything is pretty straightforward, you can use the Quick Selection tool. But in this case, because the edges are not super clean, and the quick selection tool won't create the best result. I'm going to use the plegon tool. I start by creating a selection around the edges within the frame, making sure that I'm slightly over the frame. To avoid ending up with some light pixels around my artwork when it is placed, which will be particularly visible when masking darker artwork. When you create an a selection this way, avoid creating one straight segment from corner to corner because it is highly likely that the frame is not even. So somin and work around the edges of the frame in smaller segments. Close your selection when you get to the point where you started from. And if you don't have any elements in front of your frame, your selection is ready to be used as a mask. In this case, I have an extra complication of these leaves here, which I need to subtract from my selection. To subtract any elements from your selection. Switch to the quick selection tool. Set it size to something small in relation to the element. You want to subtract? Set hardness to 100%. Then switch to the subtract from the selection mode. And then go and brush on the areas you want to remove. Use the square bracket keys to change the size of the brush in relation to the element you want to remove and carefully create your selection. In this case, I can see that the selection goes over the edge here. So I'm going to switch to the add to the selection mode and quickly refine these edges. If you end up adding to selection a little bit more than what you intended, simply hold down the d or option key to activate the remove from the selection tool and carry on refining your selection. So go ahead and mask any elements which need to be masked. After creating your selection, you can also refine it using the selected mask tool. But I find it to be more straightforward to refine my mask afterwards when it is already applied to my artwork and simply use the good old brush tool to refine the edges. So with the selection ready, let's go to the layers panel. Reveal the artwork placeholder layer. Select it. And click on the Ed layer mask button here. Now, with the mask credi, let's go into the contents of the smart object layer. And place artwork into it. So go to the file menu. Place embedded. Select he desired artwork. And he place. Scale and position it within the canvas. And he er. Now, let's quickly delete the original rectangle layer. Save the smart object document. Close it. And that's how it now looks in the main document. The mask worked quite well in this case, but if you need to refine some little bits around the edges, you can simply select your mask, then switch to the brush tool. Set at hardness to about 50%. Zoo mean to see all of the details. Change the brush size using the square bracket keys. Make sure that the foreground color is set to white and brush around the edges, which you want to make softer. Because you are now dealing with your actual artwork, it will be much easier to refine any edges in your mask and make everything look realistic and avoid having any odd pixels around. When working with generated images. In most cases, you shouldn't have any particularly tricky elements to mask. But if you do, don't hesitate to play around with the select and mask tool to refine the edges of your mask. The quality of your masking will hugely affect how realistic your mockups. So spend as much time as needed to refine your mask, and then join me in the next lesson in which I'll walk you through the process of adding realistic reflections and shadows to your framed art mock ups. Okay. 18. Creating Realistic Reflections & Shadows: Okay. With your artwork placed and masked. The next step is to blend it with the shadows, highlights and reflections, you might have in your frame. If the contents of your frame are pretty basic and you simply have some white background with some shadows, you can simply use the multiply mode like we have done earlier and be done with it. But in this case, because I have a reflective surface within my frame to make the artwork look more realistic, I'm going to use a different technique. Start by selecting the smart object with your set and duplicate it a couple of times. Then select both copies and drag them above the artwork layer. Then go to the top layer, rename it to shadows and set its blending mode to multiply. Then go to the layer below. Rename it to highlights and set its blending mode to screen. And now we need to make a few adjustments to these layers to make everything look realistic. Let's quickly hide the shadows layer. Then go to the highlights layer. Hold down the old or option key and clip it to the artwork layer by clicking between these two layers and this arrow. And now this layer only affects the contents of our artwork layer. This is incredibly bright, so we need to edit the levels in this image. Because it is a smart object, simply select this layer and hit Command L or Control L in windows. In the levels dialogue, start by dragging the white point output levels indicator to make the image slightly darker. And then go and play around with the indicators for the mid tones for the input levels and the black point and move them to the right until the lighting starts to look more realistic. These adjustments will depend on the image you're working with and the artwork you are placing. So simply move all these indicators around. Until the image looks good. When ready press okay. The levels adjustment will be added as a smart filter to your highlights layer. And you can revisit its settings at any time throughout the process to make it work better with your current image. What to adjust it if you decide to place a different image within your placeholder. Sometimes it just the highlights is enough. But to make this image look mo realistic, let's go and work with our shadows there. Again, clip it to the layers below. Then select the layer. And again, go and play around with the levels adjustment. In this case, move this indicator to the right to make the whole image more washed out, and then go and play around with the input levels to bring in the shadows in a desired way. Again, the position of all these indicators will depend on the image you're working with and your artwork, simply carry on moving them around until you like what you see. Then apply changes. And if you want, you can also go and turn down the opacity of your shadows layer to make the shading a little bit more subtle. If necessary, you can also add the hue saturation adjustment to your shadows layer, which you can do by pressing command you or control you in the windows, and turn down the saturation to the desired level to make everything look more realistic. If your artwork looks to sharp in comparison to the rest of the image, you can also go and add a little bit of realism to it by selecting the artwork layer. Make sure you select the layers fam nail and not the mask. And then go to the filter menu. Blur and select Gaussian Set the radius to something super small, for example, 0.1 or 0.2 pixels, whichever works best for your image, and it. And this is how you can present your work using a more complex mocap with some distortions, masks, and reflections. And here's a final quick tip. If you're creating the sort of mock ups with the artwork filling the whole frame. Be sure to check the quality of masks by using both dark artwork and some light ones. And refine your mask if you spot any issues. Also remember that if you go from using a dark image within your frame to light or bright one, you will most likely need to adjust the levels for your shadows and highlights to make them work better with your particular artwork. And we're done with the techniques for creating framed art mock ups. So let's wrap this cuss up with a few final thoughts. 19. Final Thoughts & Your Class Project: So this is how you can generate various interior images and create two kinds of framed art mock ups. And I hope that you have enjoyed this class and are excited to start creating your own framed art mock ups to showcase your work in the unique settings. Since we've been creating more caps using smart objects, you can easily reuse your mops and swap the images within the placeholders. But the beauty of generating sins for your mops using AI is exactly that all your mocaps can be different and project specific. And with the framed art Mc ups, it really doesn't take a lot of time to place your work into different generated sets. Take advantage of the ability to generate any number of the unique scenes and let your imagination run wild and don't get frustrated if you end up generating some with images. I cannot wait to see what sort of interior images you imagine and generate and how you showcase your work using them. For your class project, generate some images with picture frames and turn at least one of them into MoCap in Adobe Photoshop and be sure to post your work in the project resources tab for this class. Share your selected generated images as they came from Adobe and if you do some retouching or image development in photoshop afterwards, be sure to include before and after. And then share your final mock ups and be sure to share what prompt and settings you have used in Ado to generate your selected images. And I would also love to hear about your process of turning the images into mops and what you have learned in this class. If you're going to share your work created in this class on Instagram, please follow and tag as I creative in your posts so that we can easily discover them and share your work with our followers and be sure to follow us here on skill share, to be the first to know about our new classes and updates. If you have found this class helpful, please leave a review in the review stub for this class. If you have any sort of questions, be sure to leave a comment in the discussion stub for this class, and I'll happily answer and provide feedback. Okay. Thank you for watching this stuff, and I hope to see you in our other classes.