Hey guys, what's going on?
It's me, Will Paterson.
Welcome back to a new video.
Today I'm going to show you something different.
I'm going to show you how you can actually create mockups
inside of Photoshop.
This is a really basic way of doing so, but really effective.
So the first thing you want to do is in Photoshop, we're going
to bring in an image.
I'm just going to bring in this one.
This is a coffee mug.
It's the easiest way to show you. Now when presenting to a
client what I like to do.
And many other designers, they love to put their work on to
products that mean something to the company.
So, for instance, a coffee shop would have a coffee logo on
their coffee cup if it's a takeaway cup.
But what if we have an image like this, where it's just a
static image and we need to make it look real with the logo on it.
So bring your image and make sure it's high quality so you
can tell by the way it zooms in.
If it zooms in and it's nice and crisp, that's good.
First thing I'm going to do is hold Alt or option and just
double click on the background layer.
And I'm going to call this cup.
There's a lot of things I could do better.
However, I'm going to show you how to get the work onto the
cup face itself.
So we're going to use a shape.
So the first thing we need to do is press U or go to the
shape down here and just approximately over the top of
this, create a rectangle, make sure it's overlapping.
I'm going to change the colour of the rectangle to any colour.
And then right here, I'm going to right click on this shape.
And this is really important.
Right click and go to Convert to Smart Object.
What this does is it allows us to click into that shape layer
or the smart object and edit it in here.
And when we save that, it will apply it to anything in here.
This also means we can warp this rectangle into the shape
of the coffee cup and it would apply the effect.
So on the smart object, we're going to call this the edit.
I'm going to change the opacity to around 30 because I want to
see the mug behind it.
Press command T or control T for free transform.
And then go up here.
You'll see this warp option.
Click on warp.
You'll automatically see this mesh pop up here.
Now this mesh is really cool because what you can do is warp
it around things.
It's like a 3D mesh.
What we're going to do is warp it around the mug here.
There's plenty of ways to do this.
In fact, you can actually go up to the warp function up here
and change the warp function here.
It's got loads of presets, even a cylinder one.
But we're not going to use that because it warps it a bit too much.
We're just going to go to the default, the custom warp one up here.
The first thing we want to do is just approximately bring up
the warp in the corners, like so kind of matching the corners,
not perfectly because we want to have some overlap that
we can edit later.
Then we can just click on the warp itself and just very
carefully drag them in.
It's going to look a bit strange at first, but we can always edit this.
Then we can zoom in and start messing around with these handles.
It's kind of like the pen tool, like the direct selection tool.
But we're trying to get the warping to look nice all the way through.
You can see why we change the opacity here as well.
If we zoom in, we can get as fine as we want to.
And I'm just going to kind of eyeball this to make sure it
works perfectly all the way through.
and boom. Photoshop is a really powerful tool, so don't worry
if you make any mistakes or if it doesn't look perfect just yet.
That's just the way it is.
Okay, so now we have our warp function.
It kind of looks good so far.
So press this button, appear to apply it.
We intentionally had some overlap here because we're
going to mask that out later.
It's going to be a lot easier for us to use.
The next thing we're going to do is go and change my fill,
my opacity to 100.
Then we're going to change the Blend mode.
This is the huge part because if we just have this shape on
top, it kind of looks weird.
It just looks flat.
So the Blend mode option is really important.
On the smart object.
Go to Blend mode and Linear Burn.
It might not look it right now, but it'll actually help with
creating the shadows and the highlights.
It allows the highlights and the shadows to appear through
so we don't have to do any dodging or burning.
It uses the shadows and the highlights from the image.
Now the problem we have is obviously the colours of it strange.
There's no work on it, but we have the sharp corners down here.
Now what I'm going to do is hide this shape and we're going
to select the coffee cup and only the coffee cup.
Now because we have a white background on this, what I need
to do is go to this object selection tool up here and
we're going to drag all the way around it like so, and it will
create a really nice quick selection.
It's amazing.
Then I'm going to press Command C and Command V, which will
paste only the object that I've asked for it to paste, which is
pretty neat. If you want to and you want to get really precise
or the object tool doesn't it work for you, go ahead and
use the pen tool.
I'm going to call this selection.
I'm going to mark it as red, because whenever I mark
something as red, it means don't touch it, don't use it.
It's just for some nefarious purpose, such as selecting it.
The next thing we're going to do is select the coffee cup.
The reason why I've got it like this is because I can just
click like so with command onto the shape and it will select
the coffee cup automatically.
What we want to do is get rid of all these lines here.
And the way we do that is just by pressing it and masking it.
We've applied a mask on top of this.
Now there's a few more problems, but don't worry, you can see
down here we've got a bit missing.
It kind of looks a bit strange here.
And we've got this black stroke around it.
This signifies to me it's not big enough.
The shape that I've used.
It needs to have a bit more of a bleed, so we need to warp it even more.
But unfortunately, we can't warp it when there's a mask on it.
So get rid of the mask again.
We're going to warp it again and you'll see that it kind of
works pretty well.
I want the warp to come slightly away from the actual shape here.
It doesn't matter if it's like a line like this, where it's
quite a sharp line going up, it's quite straight.
But on these ones where it gets a bit weird, we want to make
sure that we have enough space for the bleed.
Press okay.
Select the coffee cup again and we'll mask it again.
And you'll see that we get a lot nicer off a curve down here.
Now we have another problem happening here, too.
The mask didn't fully work and that's because we weren't precise enough.
So a way to mitigate this is go to your brush, press B.
We're going to decrease the brush size and we're going to
increase the hardness to around 80, I think, and decrease the
brush size even more.
And when we're in black and white, we can actually change
what comes through here.
I like to use the brush most of the time.
Some people might want to use something different, but
depending on what you're doing, the brush is normally fine.
Decrease the hardest to around 60 and in any area where it
looks slightly strange, just decrease the brush size and change it.
Mask it.
This is non destructive, so we don't have to worry too much about it.
And like so we've got a nice shape here already.
The next thing to do is we need to test whether our work is
going to work with this or not.
So what we do is we double click, and this is what you
normally do with all the mock ups that you get from Envato.
Double click.
And we're going to bring in some work.
I'm going to just bring in all my work from this part here,
which is my logo with a cool background on it.
Get my logo in the middle.
Now, when our work is in here and I press Command S to save it,
you'll see that it appears on our coffee mode.
And it looks pretty strange so far.
Now, the reason for this is the warping isn't correct.
Now, the way that I deal with this, and I find it the most
simplistic way when we get these strange objects, is to
again go into another warp.
So I get rid of my mask again, and you can always put the mask on and off.
I like to test it as I go throughout.
So get rid of the mask.
Go ahead and warp it again.
Now, from the middle here, we can actually play around with it.
And I like to have my logo appear in it because it's
something that I've spent a lot of time viewing and I can see
whether it's warping correctly or not.
And what I'm trying to do is make it look like it's warping
around, but not too much.
You can see here I'm changing the handles.
I'm going to mask it again, go down with my brush and do some
further refinements.
So right there, that's looking pretty good.
But to go a step further, we want to blend in a few more of
the highlights into this because right now, it kind of
looks still a bit flat.
So what we do is on our edit page here, we're going to go
into blending options.
So right click blending options and we'll get this layer style
panel pop up here.
Now, the Blend If function is super important and really
powerful for any image editing, especially when we're doing
mockups because we have this, this allows us to Blend If.
The underlying gray is this, it will blend it through.
But you see, this doesn't look very good.
However, if we click but hold option at the same time,
it will do it like this.
You'll see that it will break apart, but it's a lot more of a softer effect.
And what we want to do is just bring it a few more of those highlights.
And you'll see as I do it, those highlights just appear in.
Now, we can do the same with the blacks also, but we kind of
like the blacks as well to be in there, press okay and boom.
Before I go ahead and show you how to colour the lid off the
coffee cup, I just want to tell you about Envato because if
you're watching this, you're wanting to make mockups.
Well, if you don't want to make them and you're in a bit of a
hurry, or you want to get some really good mockups for your
logo designs, for your portfolio, for showing your
clients and presenting, which I would very much advice to do
then Envato Elements has got
you covered with over 50 million assets for you to use,
which is insane.
50 million assets all the way from photography, fonts, images,
sound, intro, videos, mockups.
But not only that, they have these cool logo intros.
So if you need a logo reveal and you want a template to put
your logo in, they have those as well.
You can even get images where you can start making mockups
with them as well.
Envato Elements offers you a simple license.
You can read more about it on the website, but honestly, it's
super simple and you don't have to worry about using the work
even when your trial ends.
But as well as that, you get seven days completely free of use.
That means you can download anything you want and use it
for seven days.
And if you click the link down below, you'll get 50% of
Envato's annual subscription, which means that you're
spending less than $20 per month to get access to 50 million assets.
So go ahead and click the link.
I use Envato Elements all the time, me and the team
all use it for presentations, fonts, you name it, they have it.
Okay, let's try and colour in this lid.
We're going to go to Layer.
We're going to go to New Fill Layer, Solid Color and press okay.
I'm going to change this to something crazy like another pink.
Bring this down for now.
Okay.
We have a solid colour where we can just instantly change it if
we need to by double clicking on it, which is always nice,
but we need to mask everything out again, like so I'm going to
copy and paste it because it makes life easier for myself
and get rid of it there.
Select change it to red so I know not to mess around with it too much.
Now when it's selected, I'm going to press Command Shift
and I to invert it.
Now we're going to bring the field colour to the top here.
I'm going to change it to Linear Burn again so we can see
what's underneath it.
I'm going to select the top of the coffee cup again to the lid.
Then I'm going to press Command Shift and I, that's going to
invert the selection.
So when we click on the actual mask for the colour fill, the backspace
it will already be on top of our mug.
And we can actually change this on the fly by going in adding
or taking away with the brush tool.
But I'm going to change the opacity of this.
So we just have a little bit of colour there.
But now when we double click, you can see that we can change
the colour of this lid and it has a metallic look to it as
well, so we can change the brightness to make it a sort of
green autumnal colour.
And there you have it.
There is the mockup.
It's fully editable as well.
You can go even further than this, actually.
You can create some shadows.
You can make it so you move.
You can duplicate it and change the perspective of everything else.
You can do a lot with this, but this is the most simple way of
creating a mockup onto a coffee cup or anything else
that you can think of, using these methods and principles.
This is how you do it.
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