Make Your Own Mockups in Procreate Using Photos

1. Intro: Hey there, I'm my favorite. I'm a surface pattern designer and online teacher. And in this class, we will create mockups from photos in procreate. As we've tapped into this class, I'm guessing that you already have an idea of what mockups are. But if this word is new to you, I just wanted to quickly explain that Mock-ups are a way of showing your artwork on products without the need of printing or ordering the actual products. It's basically manipulated photo, where we start with a photo of a product and add your artwork to make it look like your design is printed on that product. Mockups are a great way about showing potential clients how your artwork would look on their type of product. And it's also a great way for you to visualize how your designs will look on all sorts of different products. You can use them in your marketing on your website to send to clients. Or you can create mock-ups just for the fun of it. Because it's an amazing feeling to see your design on real products. The most common way to make product mockups from photos is by using Photoshop, which I teach you in another class of mine called showcase your artwork. Make your own mockups using Adobe Photoshop. But in this class that you're watching now, we will use Procreate to make our mockups. If you like me, use your iPad to create your artwork, you will find that this workflow will be super smooth and much quicker than using Photoshop. I will teach you how to create mockups using stock photos, and how to take your own photos with your phone to create your mockups. I will show you how to make them for stand-alone artwork, such as art prints, as well as all over prints such as patterns. We will create a mockup files that we can reuse over and over again so they can save time in the future when you create your own mockups. As a bonus in this class, I've also included are popular favorite companies, spiral notebook mockup, that previously only available as a Photoshop mockup. But now it's available for download for free as a procreate mockup file when you watch this class. This is free for you to use for both personal and commercial use. And I will show you later on in class how to add your own design in this mock-up file. If you're ready to learn how to create your own mockups in Procreate. Let's start the class. 2. Your Project: Your project in this class is to create mockups from photos. In Procreate, I will show you how to create three different mockups from stock photos and one from my own photo. I will also show how to use our pre-made Faber company spiral notebook mockup that you can download for free when you watch this class. You can choose yourself if you want to create one or all five different types of mockups. Watched the lesson about exporting your artwork, and I'm pleased to share your project here in class. I would love to see what you create. 3. Downloads and Resources: Okay, so let's start with the downloads and resources that we will use in this class. First things first, you will get a freebie from us at favorite company in this class. It's our spiral notebook mockup that previously only were available as a Photoshop mockup, but also now is available as a procreate mock-up. I will show you later on in class how to use this mockup file. But for now, we will download it to our iPads. So you can either open up the PDF that you can download in the class or you can go to the URL that you see on screen. Now, when you tap the download button in the PDF or go to the URL, you will get to this page where you type in your name and e-mail address and tap Unlock. This will give you access to a folder where you can download the freebie. And it will also subscribe to my newsletter. You can of course, unsubscribe from my newsletter at any time. But I'm very happy to welcome you as a subscriber to my newsletter. And I hope that you want to stick around. When you get to this folder. You tap the file, which is a procreate file, and tap where it says download and download. Again. This will download your file to your iPad and to the downloads folder on your iPad. As I mentioned, I will show you later on in class how to use this file. For now we can just leave it in the downloads folder. So now we have downloaded the freebie in this class. While we will also use in this class, are royalty-free photos from the site Unsplash. I have found three photos that you will get a link to in the description of this class that we will use to create our mockups. And I will also show you more about how to find good images to be used as mock-ups on this site, Unsplash later on in class. But for now to be able to follow along in class, I want you to download these three images that are linked to in the description of this class. You can just start with downloading them to your downloads folder on your iPad. And we will use them in procreate later on. The apps that we will use in class are of course, Procreate, which we'll use to create our mockups. And I will also use the app Lightroom, which is a photo editing app. In this class, I will show you how to quickly edit your photos if you need to, so that they are more suitable to be used as mock-ups. In the app Lightroom, I will use a preset. I will first show you how to manually edit a photo very quickly. But I will also show you how to use a preset that I have created, which are part of our favorite company, Lightroom presets. But the preset that I will use is a freebie that you can download for free in this class, short videos for social media, five tips to create a fun video content. So if you do want to use the same preset as me, watch this class and download the free presets, which will make it a much quicker edit. But you can also manually edit your photo. It's not a must to have the Lightroom app to take this class, we will focus on procreate. But I recommend Lightroom personally as it's a very good photo editing app. And you can use it for all sorts of photos and even videos. Nowadays, I myself workload with presets, which really speeds up my workflow. So that's a little tip and I will show you later on in class how to use the Lightroom app to quickly edit your photos. So if you have downloaded our favorite company notebook, Procreate mockup, and the three images that we will use to create mock-ups in this class. We can continue with the class and head over to the next lesson. 4. Stock Photos vs Your Own Photos: In this class, we will use photos to create our mockups. You can download and use royalty-free photos from e.g. sites like Unsplash, which I will show you just how to do in the next lesson. Or you can take your own photos and make your own completely unique mock-ups. If you want to take your own photos and use for yourself. I will teach you this later on in class. Just to note though, that the way that I will show you in this class to take your own photos or to make mock-ups for your own use. If you would like to create mock-ups and sell as digital design assets, I recommend that you take more professional photos so that you can ensure a high quality to your customers. So with that said, there are pros and cons to both using stock photos and your own photos. I want to share my thoughts on this so that you can decide if you want to use stock photos, take your own photos, or maybe both. For stock photos, the pros are that you can find really cool professional photos taken by photographers. The royalty-free photos from Unsplash are free to use for both personal and commercial use. You don't need any photo equipment or think about having the perfect objects to take photos off or things like lightning and photo quality. The cons are that it can be time-consuming to find the perfect photo. Your photo will not be unique, meaning that someone else can use the exact same photo as you. You might need to settle with a photo that maybe have a lot of what you're looking for, but maybe lack something else. When you use your own photos, the pros are that you have complete control over your photo and how you want it to look. You can build your brand with the help of your mockup photos, and they can be completely on brand. No one else would have the same photos as you. They will be completely unique. The cons are that it can be time-consuming to take photos yourself, especially if you're not used to taking product photos. And you need good objects to take photos of that suited to make mockups from e.g. the object should be white and aligned with your brand. You also need good lightning and a decent phone or camera to take good photos. So to sum this up, it can be time-consuming to both fame stock photos, and take your own photos. It depends on what you're used to. If you're quick, uh, finding things online, stock photos might be the way to go. If you're an excellent photographer already, taking your own photos might be the way to go for you. Or you can do a mix of both. Of course, take some of your own and use some stock photos. Once you made a few mock-ups from a few photos, the whole process will go so much smoother as you can reuse your mock-ups over and over again. So once you've learned how to create these mockups, you can build your library of Procreate mockups, which can save you a bunch of time in the long run, showing your designs on product mockups. 5. Find Stock Photos: Okay, so let's talk about how to find good stock photos that are suitable to create mock-ups. Or I use the site Unsplash, which is my favorite site to go to for royalty-free photos. These photos are free to use for both personal and commercial use. I recommend that you personally read the license yourself so that you know what you can use these photos for and what you can't use them for. Then head back to the site and we can start to search for photos. So searching for a mock-up photos can take some time, especially if you want them to be on-brand. And what I mean with that is to be suitable for the rest of your visual identity in your band. Let me show you what I mean. It's really easy actually to search for mock-ups. So let's start with frame. When I want a free mockup, I in the right frame, or frame mock-up. Usually, free mockup is a little bit of a shortcut to get good images that are great to create mockups. What I mean with that is that an image that is good to create, a mockup above is an image that are free of disturbing objects on top of the object that we want to create the mark above. So e.g. this frame, in this image, the person are holding the frame, but the hand is outside of the white part of the frame where we want to put our art prints. If we zoom in a little bit, here, there are some blurry branches that go here. I think that you could easily just erase that and the mockup will still look good. But those sort of things are things that we don't generally want in our mockup images. I will still use this one because I don't think that this image will look really strange if I will just remove those blurry parts here. So that is number one, tip number one is to have a clean object so that the placement of your design will look as realistic as possible. The second thing that we're looking for is a white objects. So this e.g. you could go in here, use this image and create a mockup in this frame. But it's a lot of work because we need to make this part of the object where your print should go white before we put our own design on it. And if we make it completely white, we will lose the shadows and the texture of the image. You will understand what I mean later on in class if you don't follow here. But just trust me on this one that we want the object to be white that we are placing the mockup in. Let me take another example. Soon out, and I will write pillow instead. So usually when I search for an image, I have a product in mind, so e.g. frame or pillow. And then I searched for that until I found an image that I think will look good as a mock-up, will look as realistic as possible. And that is also suitable for my brand. So I will type pillow. Then we can scroll through here. And here you can see that you have some different objects or pillows. So instantly I get white pillows here, images are white pillows. And this is another tip when you look for mock-ups. So you don't want a strange angle. This angle will be really hard to place your design on and make it look good. And even if you could spend a lot of time creating a mock-up where you place your design on an object with this angle. It takes a lot of time. So even if you could make it look good, if you work a lot with it, you need to work a lot with it if you know what I mean. So we want a simple objects. I tend to go for these simpler images that are from the top of the object or in the front of the object. If I would have choose from these images that we see on screen. Now, for me, this one has, the pillow is a little bit bluish, so that won't look as good. And also it has a little bit of strange angle and a lot of folds in it. So that will make the mock-up look a little bit less realistic. And either one of these four would work good because the objects are free and you could easily place your design on them. Some of them might look better than others. E.g. on this one you have a lot of folds here, so that might not look that realistic when you place your design on it. But also what I would think of here is that I would choose an image that is suitable for my brand. So typically, I don't use that much gray. I use a lot of colorful pastels and bright colors. And I don't use that many prompts, like flowers and books and pink things and this carpet here, it's not my brand style. This one I could use, but I think it's a little bit plane for me and it also has this magazine here. And I wouldn't want that in my mock-up. So I have downloaded this one, which I think both is fun because it has this yellow background, which I will show you how to change color on later on in class. It has the little bit of plant thing going on there. And the object, the pillow is clean, it's in front and it's the main object of this image. This is the image that I've chosen for this mockup in class. So there you have some tips of how to find mock-up images. Make sure that you don't make it too complicated for yourself. Keep it simple. And I think that you will thank yourself later on because you don't want to spend all your time creating mock-ups, even if it's really fun to do so. So keep it simple and try to find images are clean, white objects without something going on in front of the object and not too many things, too many strange angles and things like that. So keep it really simple. And that way it will be much easier to create a mock-up of your images. As I showed you earlier in this class, I have chosen three images that you probably have downloaded already if you've watched the lesson about downloads and resources. So we will use these three images to create mock-ups in this class. If you want to download some other images and try it out, feel free to do so. It might be easier though, to follow along with my three images first and then try out and experiment with other images later on. 6. Frame Mockup: So it's time to start with our first mockup. Before we even start to placing our design on the images. I just wanted to mention that before starting this class, I have exported my artwork. If you create artwork in Procreate, you can just select your artwork, share it as a JPEG, and save it to your camera roll. If you create artwork in another app, all you need to do is to have some JPEG files ready. I will use both art prints and patterns because we will do the all over print mockup with the patterns and the art print in the frame mockup. You can choose yourself. It depends on what you create, but you need to have some artwork ready, exported so that you can use in this class. Let's get started with our first mockup. In Procreate, I will tap Import. And I have saved all of the images in a folder here. If you have just recently downloaded the images, you will find them in your downloads folder on your iPad. So first, we will use this frame mock-up is the one that says, Elena, your land. We'll tap that one and open it up. I won't change the size of the image or open a new canvas and place the image. I will just use the image as it is so that I have it in the highest resolution possible. And then you can always scale it down if you want to use it online or whatever you want to use this mock-up for. So I import the image as it is. Then it's time to start to create our mock-up. The very first thing that we will do is to mask out the piece of the object where we will place our art for us on this frame. It's what's inside of this one. I will do this more throughly now. So let's just undo that and we will go through this detail. The first thing that I will do is to choose a color that I can see clearly on top of my image. So I'm using a red, orange, she really bad color. And if I draw with this on top of my image, I can see it really clearly. So it doesn't matter which color you use, but use a color that you can see, like a contrast on top of your image. When it comes to the brush, I'm using one of the original brushes that are available in Procreate. It's under airbrushing and it's called soft brush. I'm using this brush because I don't want the edges to be super sharp. But you can decide yourself if you want to use like a medium brush or a hard blend. But the most important thing with the brush is that it's solid. And I think that it looks better if the edges aren't super sharp. So let's try that out with the soft brush and a red color. And I will make sure that I have created a new layer on top of my image layer. So I tap Layers panel, tap the plus sign to create a new layer. And on this layer will mask out our objects. So here I'm just zooming in and I'm trying out my brush to see which size I want, maybe 1% or 2%. Summer there around 1% is probably good. Now then I will go in and draw where the edges of the art print will go. You could also go in and select like this. But for me, it doesn't look as good when I select with the selection tool. So I choose to draw in the objects. So zoom in really closely and you can choose yourself if you want to draw freehand. It depends on how your edge look. Or if you want to draw a straight line just by tap and draw and then tap and hold to make a straight line. Usually, it works good for me to do a little bit of both. It depends on the object and the brush and how detailed I want to go. So go over this image and draw in first the edges here. And then we will fill in the whole part of the object where the art print will be. I will speed this up for you a little bit because they will take me a little while to do this. I would recommend you to do it as detailed as possible. Because you will get a better result if you are really detailed. If you need to zoom in. To get better edges, you can do that and just draw in there just little bit if it looks a little bit shaky. Okay, So speeding this process app, I will draw in the edges of this art prints with this airbrush. Okay, so now I have drawn in the edges and I will tap and drag to fill in this, I can drag up the threshold a little bit so that it just where my stroke and my field will be as filled as possible. So probably somewhere around here for me, 83%. Then I can zoom in. I'll see if I have some line here. Sometimes it turns up line when you draw on a stroke and then fill it in. But I think that this looks good. If it would have been a little line here, I would have just drawn it in like this to make sure that the whole object is filled with a solid color. If we zoom out, you can see that we have filled in this shape where we want to place our design on the image. And we have that object, the color rectangle, on a separate layer. So that is the first step. The next step is to change the color of this object to white. So we drew it with red to be able to see and the edges where we have drawn the object. But now we want to change it to white. And the best way to fill an object that might have a little bit of texture. We don't really know that yet, is to swipe to the right to turn on Alpha lock on that layer or tap layer tap Alpha Lock makes sure how white as fill color all the way up to the left topside. And then tap the layer and tap Fill Layer. Now we have turned this layer to whites. We can go on to the next step. The next step is to add your design. So I will go to my camera roll, I'll tap the Actions panel, insert a photo, and I will insert one of my art prints. We can try out a few different art prints. So let's first start with this cactus. And it turned out really large. So let me just zoom out. Then I can adjust the size of the cactus so that it's about on top of the object where I want to place my art print in this frame. You can always adjust this later on, but it looks good if it's about the same size that you want it in the end. When you have placed this objects, you tap the layer and tap clipping mask instantly here you can see that your design has been placed on this image in the frame where we have masked out the actual place in the frame where we want our art prints. But as you also can see, if we turn off these two layers in this frame, There's a shadow going on over here and here. And the frame, like the background, isn't purely white. It's a little bit grayish like it is in real life. Digitally, these files are super bright in the background. What we need to do to make this look realistic is actually really simple in this mock-up. And that is to tap the blending mode on your call this the mask layer. Then we will scroll up to multiply. If I scroll down to normal again, you can see the difference. It's purely white, is just flat, like it's drawn digitally. And if I scroll up to Multiply, you can see that it really fits in the frame in a natural way. And it looks like it really is in the frame, in real life in the image. So that's pretty cool. Now you can go in on your design and tap the selection tool. And here you can change the size to whatever size you want to. That makes it look good in the frame. Then we tap the selection tool again. And here you have actually placed your first design in the frame in this image. And I think that this looks like a really good quality Mockup. Next step, I wanted to show you what happens if you place something that doesn't have a white background, that has the color background. So I would choose another art print. Let me just turn off the visibility of the cactus. And I will insert a photo. And I will take this drink, Aperol spritz, drink. Whoops. And I will just adjust the size by tapping in one of the blue nodes and adjusting it so that it looks like it will fit in the frame. Then I will tap the image, tap clipping mask, and it instantly are added in to our frame with the shadow on top. If I tap the selection tool, I can adjust the position and the size to something that looks good. Then I tap the selection tool again. And if I zoom in here, you can see how you drew your edges. So if you want to go in now and do some detailed work in your edges, Let's say that I want to be really detailed in this corner because it looks a little bit round, but I wanted sharp. Then I tap the layers panel, I tap the layer with the layer mask layer. I will tap the layer, turn off the alpha lock so that I can draw on that layer again and width my airbrush. I will draw in this little edge. So as you can see now, if I draw on that layer, you will add the design to the image. So let's just do that for real. Bring in the size a little bit and draw in that part that I thought didn't look good. You can zoom in again, Let's see maybe here something that looks a little bit strange. And then you can go over the details. You also can erase parts of this design by using the eraser instead and erasing parts of your image. So basically, you are not wasting your image here. You are not erasing your design. You're erasing the base layer that we have used a clipping mask on. So let's just undo that. And now you know how to fix the details of your mockup like that. The next thing that I wanted to show you in this image is an easy way to change the background of the image. For this image, it's actually really, really simple. What we need to do is to tap into our original image layer. But what I always do before I make edits to my original image is to swipe to the right and duplicate it. So that if I make some changes that I don't want to keep in the long run. I always have my original image here. When I'm on this layer, I will tap Adjustments, Hue, Saturation. And here on this image, all you need to do is to scroll the hue, the color of the wall, and the plans, and everything will change to that color. So this doesn't work on every image. It depends on what objects you have in your image. And if you have a lot of colors already, it will look a little bit strange. But you can adjust the brightness, which I normally don't do. The saturation if you want to damage to be a little bit more saturated or something like that, I almost never do that either. But what I could do in this image is to change the background to something that I feel is working good with my art print. So as this has like pink and orange, maybe I want more pinkish background, pink on pink, that cowork. Or I could go more blue, something like that. But I think that I will do the little bit more pink background. If what's happened, the layers panel and I tap back to the original image. You can see that their friends, when I turn on my new image where I changed the background and when I turn on the original image. So the new image is a little bit more pink, which I think looks good for this art print. So as I mentioned, this is not how you change the color of the background on all sorts of images. But if you find these sorts of images where you have white objects and colored backgrounds, that is a really simple way to change the background color. Later on in class, I will show you how to change the background color in another way where we need to mask out the objects. But let's do that later on. And for now, we are finished with this frame mockup. 7. Notebook Mockup: Okay, so the next mockup that we will create is this notebook mockup is called Kelly sick Emma. It looks like this. And for me this image is a little bit dark. I think that it will look better as a mock-up if it's a little bit more light. And also for my brand, it will look better if a little bit more bright and airy instead of this moody image. So what you can do then is to edit the image. I always edit my images in Lightroom. I will show you how to do that. If you want to use another editing app, feel free to do that. But this is how I edit my images electron. So what I do is that I have saved this image to my camera, roll, save image. And then I tap into Lightroom. I tap into add photos from camera roll, and I add the photo of the notebook. Here you have some options. This is the editing tab. And if you tap that, you can go in and tap out too. E.g. if you want to see how Lightroom would edit this photo, that is not the look that I want. You can also go in here and manually adjust whatever you want. So let me just use my pen because it's a little bit more detail. You can go in here and adjust the exposure. And maybe you want to bring up or down the highlights, up the shadows if you want to brighten images a little bit and things like that. For me, what I typically do in Lightroom is that I use presets. So we have our favorite company presets. When you watch my class about creating short videos for social media, which I showed you earlier in class. You will get two free premium presets. I talk more about presets and editing photos in that class. But a short explanation is that when you use presets, you don't need to spend a lot of time in manually adjusting your images. They can work really good as they are. For me, I have created these sets of sturdy boost and creative life presets and the color pop preset. For these types of images. I've found that the studios presets are really good. When you're watching the other class that I've created about how to use presets, short videos for social media. You will get the studio boost three for free. So we will use that one in this class as well, so that you can use the same preset as me if you want to end this class. So just to be clear, if you want to use this preset, you can download it in my other class about making short videos for social media. When I have these presets, this is the only thing that I do in Lightroom. I just open up Lightroom, open up the photo and I tap the preset. Then I tap done, and I export a photo to my camera roll. That way, it goes really quickly to make this image look better, to be used as a mock-up. So when we have edited this photo, I will hand it back to procreate and again, tap Import. But actually now we have saved it to our cameras. I will tap Photo, and here I have my edited photo, so I will tap that. And now we can create a mock-up of this notebook. So first things first, we need to make objects like a mask on this image, as we did in the previous mock-up. Another way that you can do this a little bit more quickly is that when you have an image where you have contrasting colors like this, the notebook is really white and the background has all sorts of other brownish colors, is to use the selection tool, tap automatic, tap the image. And if you scroll to the right, you can see that the threshold percentage goes up. And if you scroll to the left, you can see that it goes down. You should tap the part of the image that you want to select, which for us is the notebook. And then you can scroll up until the whole notebook is selected, the front, the cover. But you haven't selected anything else from the image. So we'll just scroll down a little bit. And as you can see here, is really detailed and we probably need to go in and the edges as well. But this might save you a little bit of time. So let's just scroll up to there. Something happens outside of notebook. I think we are fine around 13%. I have 13.3%. And then I will tap save and load to save this selection so that I can fill it in another layer. So I will tap, save and load selections and save that selection. Then I will head into my Layers Panel tab to add a new layer. Here, this selection is already selected, but if you can see your selection there, you tap your selections to save and load and selection one. And as you can see, the cover of your notebook is selected. Then we tap the layers panel and I don't want to fill it with white, I want to fill it with red. Tap again and I tap colorful Seven Load Selection and color fill. Now we have created a layer with this fill. If we zoom in, you can see that the details in the edges aren't really that good. So we probably still need to go over the edges a bit. But this way of selecting and filling with a color can save you time, especially if you have this images with a lot of twists and turns here, you needed to draw in. Otherwise, we still need to go in to draw the details still, with the brush tool selected. I will just go in and fix these details. I will make sure that I have a really small size of the brush. Oops, that was actually a little bit too large. So I will just do this. And here I can say that this type of mock-up is a little bit more work with as it has these spirals here. You need to be really detailed with the masking if we don't want it to look fake. But it's your choice if you want to create these types of mock-ups or if you want to do more simple ones, I just wanted to show you how to do it with these type of objects. But I know that it can feel a little bit intimidating when it's so much detailed work. So I will just speed this up while I go over all of these edges to make sure that I have masked out where I want to place my design on this notebook. Okay, so for me, that is good enough for the purpose of this class. You can go in how detailed the like with these sort of things. But often I think that it's better to place your design and then see how it looks. Maybe you want to change some details later on. Let's move on. The first thing that we will do is to just tap the layer, tap Alpha Lock, and change the color to white, just like we did in the previous mockups. So tap layer, tap Fill Layer. And now we have changed the color to the masking objects, if that is what we want to call it to white. Next thing is the same as we did previously. We will place our design. So I will tap access panel tap Insert a photo. And for this notebook, I think that I want to go with this design. Let's try that out. Then I tap that image and tap clipping mask. Now I have placed my pattern on this notebook in this mock-up, just like we did before. If you want to make it look a little bit more realistic, you tap the blending mode on your mask layer and tap multiply. That should do the trick. If you still feel that this doesn't look so good. Sometimes it depends on the pattern that you're using. So let me just show you another example. Insert another pattern. This pattern has a brighter background. So I make sure that I placed the pattern and that the size is okay. And then I also tried to rotate the pattern so that it looks kinda realistic to the angle of the notebooks or something like that. So let me just tap that layer, tap clipping mask. And I will remove the visibility of the other pattern. As you might see here, this pattern has more white background and that can make this mock-up look a little less realistic. So another way that I wanted to show you how you can adjust how real the design look in this photo is that you can tap into your mask layer and tap Select. Then you can choose, you can always save this selection. It might be good to have in the long run if you lose it. So you can say the selection, and then you can go in to your background image layer. Here, we will swipe down with three fingers and tap Copy, swipe down with three fingers again and tap Paste. So this has copied the front, the cover of our notebook. If we drag that up, you can see that it's only that part of the image that is copied to this layer. So to make this mock-up look even more real, I can tap that layer and drag app to multiply. And as you can see here, it looks really dark, but then you can go in and adjust the details. Maybe you want to have like on this image, I think that maybe 20 per cent or even just 15% multiply on that layer will make it look more blended into the image. So let's just zoom in there so you can see the difference and turn on the multiply layer and turn off the multiply layer. I'm not sure if you can see that the detailed work in the video here on screen. But for me, it's a difference. Here. The design is really bright, flat, and it looks a little bit like you stick it to the image. But if you turn on multiply, it looks more blended into the image. And that was the last detail that I wanted to show you how to adjust in this type of mock-up image. 8. Pillow Mockup: Okay, so the next mockup that we will do is the pillow mock-up. First, let's just move these two into a stack so we'll tap and drag to make a stack of that. And then I will tap into the stack so that I only see my mockups, which I think is a little bit easier instead of getting distracted by everything else in Procreate. So let's import the file with the pillow. It's called Media modifier. And I will tap that to import. So this is the original file. We will start as we did in the two previous mockups by masking out the pillow. So let's start with that. We will add a new layer. I will use the red color and the soft brush. And then I will just draw around the pillar. So same here as previously. But I think that I can go a little bit larger with the brush size. And then I go in the edges of the pillow. As this is not an object with sharp edges, it takes a little bit longer, but at the same time, it's a little bit more forgiving when you place your design. So just the same as previously. I will mask all around the pillow and fill it in with a color. And then we'll just speed this up a bit for you because I think you get the picture by now. And I tap and drag to fill in the color, adjust the threshold so that I feel as much as possible of the pillow. Zoom in to make sure that I don't have any of those white lines. If I do have any white lines where my stroke meets the field, I will just fill them in with the color. So now we have our mask layer, same as we did before. Tap the layer alpha lock. Use white as a color and tap fill layer. Next we will place our design just as we did before. So I will insert a photo. And I think that this dots pattern will look really good in this photo. So I will just tap and drag to place the pattern on the pillow and then tap image in the layers panel and tap clipping mask, just like we did before. The same as we did in the previous lessons. I will tap in the blend mode on our mask layer with our white fill color. And then I will tap and drag up to multiply to make sure that the pattern blends into the photo in a better way. So already, this looks really good. I think. One thing that I wanted to mention is that most of the time, people won't zoom in and look on your mockup like this. They will look at it at a distance, probably like this, and probably even like this on Instagram, e.g. it will be a really small picture. And also on your website, it might be a size that is maybe like this. So you can decide yourself how detailed you want to go. But my recommendation is that you can spend a lot of time with the details on these mockups. But try to think about if it's worth your time to do that or if it looks decent enough as it is. This photo, I think that it will be interesting to see what will happen if we will cut out the pillow and put it on top with a multiply layer, just like we did before. I will tap on our mask layer, tap the select. And when the selection tool is selected, I'll tap save and load and tap selections. So I have my selection saved there. And then I will tap into my original background image layer. As you can see, you still have your selection here. But if you lose it, it can be good to save it, to save and load. When I have my selection, I will swipe down with three fingers, tap, Copy, swipe down again and paste. And that will paste the pillow on a new layer. You can tap that layer, drag up to multiply. And now you can see if you only have the original image or if you want to add another layer of multiply, we can drag down the opacity to adjust how much capacity we want on the new Multiply layer. So this is without and this is width. You can decide yourself if you want to use this extra image to kind of blend in your sign in the original product image. The next thing that I want to do in this image is to change the background color. So just like we did before, I will just swipe to the right to duplicate the background image. And here I can tap the image. Tap this lecture is to save and load selection. Then I can invert the selection. So now I have everything selected at is outside of my pillow. Let's just save this selection as well so that we have it in the selections tool. Then if I tap into that selection and I go into the hue and saturation, now I have that selected on the image, hue and saturation. And here I can change the background of everything except my pillow. Just as in the previous image. It wouldn't really matter if we would change the color of the pillow as well, but this can be a really good alternative if you have a lot of objects that you want to select out of the background so that you don't change the color of those objects. Let's just use, we use pink as a color here to see how that looks. And then we can zoom in and as you can see, the plants here has also turned green. What you can do then is just to go over in your layer, choose the eraser tool. And with a larger size, you can just erase parts of the flowers. You can be really detailed here, or you can just go over and do this really quickly. If you still want to have green flowers on your image. I won't do this really detailed in this lesson because it takes so much time. But you can see here that I'm pulling out the green from the plants, the flowers in this vase. And it's a little bit detail with these branches. But I think you get the picture. What you can do if you really want to do some detailed work here with the colors. Oops. So something like that. I think you get the picture. You can be really detailed and erase the parts of the image that you don't want to change the color up. Okay, So this looks really good. One other detail that I wanted to show you in this lesson is if you feel the need to warp and distort your image. So let's tap our design layer. And then I will tap adjustments. One thing you can do is to use Liquify and use the push two. Push your design in the directions that make it look a little bit more realistic. Myself, I don't spend time with these sort of detailed work, but you could do that if you want to. You could also use the transform tool and tap distort. Now we can distort your pattern so that it's more kind of adjusted to how the products is on the image. You can also use war if you want to do it more in a kind of perspective 3D way. So you can try out these functions and see if you want to work this detailed with your mockups. I tend to not do that when I do mock-ups in Procreate because I wanted to go quickly. And usually the way I share my mockups is in, as I said, a small size anyway. So the very small details usually doesn't matter that much to me, but that's totally up to you. 9. Take Your Own Photos: So the next thing that I wanted to show you is how to take your own photos. This is not a photography class or very detail about how to take product photos. But I just wanted to show you this really simple way of how you can create mockups from your own objects. I have looked in my home, but I don't have that many white objects that I could turn into mockup that will look realistic. So I'm just using my air pods here. If you have a notebook or maybe phone case or whatever, you want to use, a greeting card or a frame, you can use that. But I'm just using my AirPods. So some things that you need is of course, something to take the photo width. And for this, I'm using my iPhone, which I'm also filming this class width. So naturally I can take the photo while I film this class, but I will post the class, take the photo, and then I will show you how to edit the photo later on. But there are some things that I wanted to mention that you need to think about when you take this type of product photos. And that is that you have all white objects. So this is all white and that will make the mock-up look more realistic. Then what you need is good lights. If you don't have good light, your photo won't look professional. We can always adjust the details with presets or with manually editing the details in e.g. Lightroom. But you want good lightning from the start. So I have a window that's in this direction that are giving me light here. I also have some studio lights because I do a lot of professional video filming. You don't need studio lights. You can just have a window that you place and the direction with your object where you want the shadow. That is another thing that you can mind, where you want the shadows, you can twist and turn your objects. You can also adjust where you take the photography if you take it very close to the window, far from the window. So try things out and see how you want to take your photo. So typically, when I do these kind of mock-up images, I don't use a colored background because sometimes it can reflect up to the objects. So I use the white background. If you have a white table, you can use that. I'm just using a white paper here. And then you can adjust your objects and place them in a position. That is how you want to take the photo. Then you zoom in so that you have your objects in the frame in a good position. I might do this again and take the photo once again because it's kind of hard to do it in the same time as I film this class. But you get the picture here. When you have your objects in a good position in your frame, you just snap a photo, makes sure that you tap. Focus on the object. If you're using a phone to take your photo, you can also use a camera to take more professional photos if that is your thing. But for me, it's enough with the phone. I have an iPhone Pro 13, which I think is really good at snapping photos and videos. When you have taken a photo of your object, we can head over to the next lesson where we will create a mock-up of this image. 10. Make a Mockup From Your Photo: We are back on our iPads and this is the photo that I took of my AirPods. As you can see, this is not a really well taken photo. It is a little bit dark and it's a little bit blurry. But I wanted to show you how to create a mock-up of this photo because it's not always easy for everyone to take professional products photos. And with this way of taking photos with your phone, with just the window as a light source, you can still make mockups that look pretty good. So as I mentioned earlier in class, when you take these photos, I wouldn't sell the mockup because the quality isn't high enough, but it's perfectly fine to use it for your own purpose. With this photo, I will head into Lightroom first, which as I mentioned before, is where I edit my photos. So I will add the photo from the camera roll. Now I will edit the photo. You can adjust the details manually just as I mentioned before, with exposure contrast, highlights and all of that. You can experiment with that yourself. I will again try out my presets and see if I can find a preset that looks good. And instantly I can see that I will find a preset that works with my studio boost presets. So either the syllabus ten or studios three would work. Again. One is a little bit dusty, so I would probably go for the ten if I would do this only for my purpose. But as you can download the studio boost three for free. Let's just use that one. So when I have added the preset, I tap done and I will export to camera roll. Now, I will go into procreate and add the photo. So let's tap into the photo. And here I have my photo of the airports. So the first thing that I will do once again, is to prepare the placement of my design. As you can see here, this object isn't perfectly shiny. It is very used, so it has a little bit of dirt on top of it. And I will fix that later on. But first I want to place my design to see how it looks and then I can go in and fix the details. So first, tap into a new layer and I will use the red as a color again, the airbrush. And I will just go over the AirPod case and draw around it so that I have selected that object. Once again, the way I do this is a quick selection of this object first, which means that I draw rather quickly with the brush. And then when I place my design, I can find the details and see if I want to go in the edges of this object and see if I want to draw in a little bit more on edges or move something or things like that. Then I tap and drag to fill that object. And I adjust the threshold on this one, I can go rather high. I will go up at around nine to eight and then I will zoom in and make sure that I don't have any of those white lines that can appear by the stroke and the fill. But I don't have any white lines here. Now I have selected object and I will go into layers panel. Once again, tap the layer alpha lock and I will fill this layer with white. So tap layer again and fill layer. Then I will add my design. I will tap the Actions panel, insert a photo. And for this one, I think I want to use this daisies purple pattern. The next step is make sure that you adjust your pattern to the direction of the objects. So typically I would move the pattern a little bit outside of the object to make sure that the edges align and are pointing in the same direction. Then I will just adjust it like this, maybe something like that. Tap the Layers panel and tap clipping mask. So that doesn't look so real, of course. But we will tap the layer with the mosque and tap multiply. And instantly you can see that that looks pretty good. So we have already created a mock-up of our photo. But for me, this photo doesn't look that fun. It has the white background. It's a little bit blurry. And I want it to pop a little bit more. So what I want to do here is to first go over my object and remove the dust that are on my airport case. So let me just tap that layer and tap the layer with a mask and I will hit back to the original image layer. Here I can just adjust some details. First, I will tap the Adjustments and clone. If I drag the clone to a place next to somewhere where you have little dots of dirt. I can just scribble over a little bit to make the dirt disappear. I want to make sure that I have the clone tool pretty close to the place where I have the little dust spots. Because if I have it up here and try to draw down here, you can see that it will be a completely different color of the objects. Move around the clone tool. If you have some small things that you want to adjust. For me, I'm happy with how this looks. Then I can turn on the two layers, again with my design and the mask and see how it looks. And I think that that looks good. But now I actually feel that this image is a little bit dark. So I can also go in, in, Procreate and adjust the brightness a little bit because I want it to match with my pattern. But first things first, I always duplicate the original layer. I can turn off the visibility of the first layer so that I can work with adjustments on the duplicates. And then I tap the Adjustments, panel, Hue, Saturation and Brightness. And here I can just adjust the brightness a little bit. I don't want the shadows to completely disappear, but I want the AirPods and the case to be a little bit brighter. So I'm not focusing on the background as much as I'm focusing on the objects. So let's just bring up the brightness. I'll just bring it up 2%, maybe 252. And then I tap the Adjustments panel again. So if we check the different, This is the first image and this is the second more bright image. For me that looks better. Then I want to change the background color here. The next thing that I need to do is to mask out the AirPods. I will tap a new layer and I will also select red for this one. And with the soft airbrush, I will just mask out the AirPods quickly again. When I have drawn a stroke around their posts, I will just happen to feel those layers and make sure that I don't have any of those white lines where the stroke meet up the field. So now I have this layer with the mask on the ponds. So I will just tap Alpha Lock on that layer. And once again turn on why. It's because I want all of those layers, right? Then I actually will just duplicate the layer with the pods because I want to merge these two layers together. So then I can tap the layer, tap Merge Down, and then I have both layers merged together like this. You don't need to mind that the design changes for now, because what we want to do is to cut out the objects from this image. So with this layer selected, I tap select, which selects the objects. I usually save. The selection is just a safety thing if I lose it. But when I have that selection selected, I'll tap into the product image with the AirPods. Then I will swipe down with three fingers, copy and swipe down with three fingers and paste. And now once again, I have the AirPods selected over here. Then I can turn off the layer with the Mosque of both the airport and the case. I hope that you follow along now and that is not moving too quickly. So I have this new layer with the case over here. If I just turn off the visibility of the layers on top, you can see what I'm doing. Next, I will add a layer between the original image layer and the new layer with the pods and the case cutouts. I'll tap to add a new layer there. This layer, I will fill it with a color. So let's fill it with this green color. As you can see, it looks kind of strange. It looks like the pods are floating around in space because there are no shadow here. So I will tap that layer and tap multiply. And instantly you can see that I have changed the color of the background without affecting the color of the pots. And the case, because I've cut out the objects, the objects are on top of the image. So this is our background color layer. If we turn on the visibility of our mask layer on the case and are designed, it looks like this. So I don't really feel that the colors are matching here, so I will change the color. I think that orange and purple looks really good together. So that looks better for me. Now, once again, we can try out to add another layer on top and multiply that layer to make the shadows blend in a little bit more in your pattern. If you duplicate the layer with a cutout objects and tap and drag that layer on top. And then we can tap the blending mode and tap multiply. Now, we don't want the AirPods to be on this layer. So I will just select, Oops, I will tap Freehand with the selection tool, tap the air pods, and then I will just drag out there pods from that layer, which will delete them. And I only have the case layer on top here. I don't want the clipping mask on that layer, so I will just turn that off. And now if I zoom in, if I zoom in on the air pod case and drag up and down multiply. You can see that I can add a little bit more shadow. When I add this multiply layer over here, let's just use a little bit opacity here, 60% or something like that. And then we can turn on and off to see how the shadow makes the AirPods blend into the image a little bit more than without this extra blending mode layer. For me, this looks good. I will just change the background color a little bit more, maybe more brighter orange, that are contrasting against the purple. But you can really do as detailed work as you wish here. You can see that just by taking this quick photo, you have turned your AirPods to mockup in this image. So this type of image doesn't look as professional as the images that you have downloaded from unsplash, e.g. because these are made from professional photographers. But still, I think that it's a good solution to quickly be able to make mockups from the objects that you have laying around in your home. And it's a fun way of creating completely unique mock-ups for your designs. 11. Reuse Your Mockups: Okay, so moving on, we have created four different types of mockups. And now I will show you how you can reuse your mockups. First, let's just check out our favorite company, spiral notebook mockup and how to use that. And it will work the same way when you will reuse your mockups. But first, let's look at our spiral notebook, Procreate mock-up from asset Faber company. So with this mockup file, all you need to do is to place your artwork in the layer where it says Art Plus clipping mask. Let's just try that out. So I will add my photo of a pattern. Let's use the same pattern as we did previously that I can scale up and down the pattern so that it looks good in this mock-up. And then I tap this is place it where I want it. And then I will tap the selection tool to place the image. If it's somehow pops out of the clipping mask, sometimes it does that. You just need to tap the layer and tap clipping mask. And here you have placed your pattern or artwork on our spiral notebook, Procreate mockup. You can change the background color by tapping background color and just tap and drag to change the background. Then you can change the spiral color to, oops, now, all of those were chosen. That wasn't my meaning. You can change the spiral color to silver. Rows or copper. The original one is gold. If you want to change it to another color, you can do that here. Otherwise, you can just turn off those layers and keep the original gold spiral. And that is how ISI, you can use our Procreate mockup file. And this is free to use for both personal and commercial use. If you want to do the same process in your own mockups, Let's just use the other notebook mockup. And then we want to place another image here. You can just tap around here in that layer panel where your designers, and it's a little bit confusing because we have an extra design there. So let's just delete that. And then you tap that. You tap, Insert a photo. And let's insert another pattern that also places it in the clipping mask. I usually turn off the visibility of the other pattern. You can just delete that layer. So that is how easily you can reuse this mockup over and over again. That way, when you have created one of these mock-ups, it will go really quickly to just use it for all sorts of designs in the future. 12. Export Your Files: Okay, so now let's check out how to export your files. So this is really simple. If you want to export your files in their original size, you can just, let's tap into a file to their pillow mock-up. And I will tap the Actions panel Share JPEG and then you can save the day pig to your camera roll. And there you have your mockup that are ready to use for your purpose. And the highest resolution you can get it in. If you want to decrease the size of your file, e.g. when you're sharing the product here in class, let's just duplicate the mockup because they want to keep the original size. And then I can adjust the size in this one. Then I tap the Actions panel, canvas, Crop and Resize settings. And I make sure that I have the little chain symbol here, selected and re-sample canvas. And then I can just go in and choose another pixel size. So let's say to share in class, you only need thousand pixels square. This is a square image, so it will naturally become a square. And then I tap, Done. This, is now resized 2000 pixels instead of 4,160 pixels. Then you can just select that image, Share and JPEG. Then you can save it to camera roll. And that is the image that you can export and share as a project here in class. 13. Thank You: And that's all for this class. I hope you enjoyed making mock-ups with me in procreate in this class. Thank you so much for watching. If you liked this class, you can hit the Follow button by my name to make sure that you don't miss out on my future classes. You can also tap my name to go to my profile page here on Skillshare, where you find all of my classes available to watch. 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