With Printful, designing product mockup images has never been easier.
You don’t need to look for additional tools outside of Printful to create custom designs
and promo materials, everything is built right into your Printful Dashboard.
One of our tools to help you create visuals for your product images and marketing needs
is the Custom Mockup Maker.
In this video, we’ll guide you on how to use Printful’s Custom Mockup Maker.
Before we jump into it, let’s talk about what the Custom Mockup Maker is and you can
use it.
What’s the Custom Mockup Maker?
With the Custom Mockup Maker, you can create one-of-a-kind mockup images for your products
to use in your storefront or as promotional materials for social media.
You can quickly design unique images using our growing library of backgrounds, layouts,
and props.
With the Custom Mockup Maker, you can take more control over the visual identity of your
brand and stand out among other sellers with customized product photos.
You don’t need to do expensive photoshoots or reshoot products when you want to update
your product catalog visuals—you can simply edit the existing ones.
To use the Custom Mockup Maker you’ll have to sign up for a Printful subscription.
To set up your subscription, click on the Premium icon at the right corner of your Dashboard,
then Subscription plan.
Now, let’s look at how you can create unique product mockup images.
Designing custom mockups
You can access the Custom Mockup Maker on the Mockups step when you design a product
in the Design Maker and when you add a product to your store.
When you design a custom mockup while adding products to your store, the mockup will automatically
get added to your shop.
If you need to manually download the custom mockup images, you can choose Download mockups
for a Product Template.
In this example, we’ll show you how to create custom product mockups so you can download
and use them for your existing products or post them on your social media.
In your Dashboard menu, go to Product templates.
Here you can create and save products on Printful’s side.
If your product is added to your store and not saved as a product template, you can quickly
save it as a product template.
Head to your store, View store, find the product, click on the settings button, and then Save
as template.
Now, back to Product templates.
Go to Settings, click Download Mockups, then select Custom Mockups.
You can select pre-made templates in the Scene template tab or in the My scenes tab.
You have the option to create a mockup scene from scratch or select one from saved Scenes.
Let’s select a template.
You can cycle through and test different scenes to see which option works best with your product’s
design or brand image.
Once you find a scene that works for you, click Select and continue.
In the top left, you’ll see options to add or change design elements: Scenes, Add props,
Choose file, Add text, or Add clipart.
Below you’ll see Choose mockup style.
You can select an option in the drop-down from the current mockups available for that
shirt model.
You can also change the background and choose from different textures or images for realism
or keep it abstract with solid or gradient colors.
In the layers list, you can adjust or delete elements.
In the design view, you can reposition, resize, or rotate the elements to fit your scene.
Note that the mockup can not be scaled or repositioned outside of the design area.
Let’s add some props.
You can choose between Top view and Front view elements.
Choose your props and then make the adjustments.
Use the Choose file button to upload your design, like your brand logo.
And finally, let’s add clipart to make the background pop.
Take note of the different adjustment tools above the design view as you click through
your personal files, clipart, and props.
Once you’re done, click Continue.
Be sure to select Save mockup as a scene if you want to use the same scene design for
another product.
Then, go to Mockup format and select between .JPG and .PNG.
If your design fills up the entire space, choose .JPG so your images can load faster
on your website.
You can choose .PNG if your mockup doesn’t have a background element so the background
of your website to show through.
Click Generate mockups, then Download mockups to save.
You can then add or replace the mockup image on your store through product settings.
Here are some examples of how custom mockups can look on your storefront.
Sweet deal, now your store looks refreshed and customers will be delighted to pop in.
I hope you found this walkthrough helpful.
Be sure to check out other tools like the Promo Maker to create marketing visuals and
the Background Removal Tool to create new designs from your images.