﻿Hey, it’s Nora from Printful! Let’s go through the basic features of our
Mockup and print file Generator. There are two types of files you can
create with the Mockup Generator—product photos for your store and print files
that match our printing guidelines—you can use them when adding products to your store.
Note that we have two generators—the Mockup Generator and the Product Push Generator.
When adding products to your store, you use the Product Push Generator—you can
access it by clicking “Add product” on your store’s page on Printful. Or you can use our
Product templates feature and prepare your designs for product push on several stores,
by going to your Dashboard and clicking on Product templates in the side menu here. The
process of creating the designs there is exactly the same as it is in the Mockup Generator.
So let’s get to it. Open the Mockup Generator and choose a product from our selection.
Now, as you can see, there are two techniques available for this product—printing
and embroidery. Each technique has different file requirements and embroidery can get a bit tricky,
so be sure to check out our guidelines and video tutorials on how to properly prepare a design
file for embroidery. You can find a separate video explaining how to create mockups for embroidery in
the description below, as well as here, under the Design tab. Just click on Video tutorials.
Now, back in the Product tab, we’ll choose DTG printing for this design.
Here you can choose which colors you want to create mockups for
and then get right into designing! You can upload your own design elements,
create a text-based design, add clipart, or mix them all together. You can also
try out our Quick Design tool. Quick Designs are pre-made design compositions that you can
freely customize as you see fit. Once you choose a Quick Design like this, it works
like a group of layers that can be resized, repositioned, and customized individually.
If you need some more visual resources, you can also use our Premium Images tool
to search for stock photos that you could add to your designs.
The cost of using these photos is $1 for every photo you use in a placement. Note that these
files can only be used within Printful to create new product designs – you won't be able to access
or download the full-size print file anywhere if you use this tool. If you want to use this
design on a product later, be sure to save it as a Product template by clicking here!
Let's create a design for our product. Open the Design tab.
For this shirt, you can add a design to the front and the back of the T-shirt, both sleeves,
or add an outside label. Once you've chosen where you want the design to go, click Upload file.
You can choose from our list of ready-to-use sample graphics for your designs
or you can get in touch with our team of in-house designers if you need help
creating your designs. However, if you have your designs ready, click Upload file.
Now you can easily resize, reposition, and rotate your design, but be careful to keep it
in the print area. Pay attention to the print quality warning as you resize your design—the
Generator will warn you if the resolution of your uploaded image is too small. If your
image is too small, just your printed product would look blurry or pixelated. In this case,
you should upload a larger image. You can put together multiple elements in one
design, either by uploading some of your own files or by adding some text, clipart, Quick Designs,
or Premium Images from the Generator. Click on Add text. Type in some text
and make adjustments to the font, color, size, and other variables.
Note that you can choose one of our pre-made graphics to fill in the text color, just click
on Color, Graphics, choose the graphic you want and adjust the scale on the slider here.
You can also add clipart to your designs. Go back to all design layers, click Add clipart,
choose from one of the groups, click and drag it where you want it to be.
You can choose the clipart color here, flip it horizontally or vertically,
choose different alignment positions, and rotate the element by using the glider here.
You can then reorder layers like this. Once you're done with your design,
you can order the product by clicking down here, save your design as a Product
template or you can create mock-ups and print files by clicking Generate files.
Here you can choose what kind of mock-up you want,
and don't forget to tick the checkbox here to save your print file. Remember that you won’t be able
to download the print file here if you've used some of our Premium Images in your design.
Then, you can change the file name and format here.
When you're done, click Generate files again—you can now download your mockup images and print
files as a zip. folder or save the print file to your Printful file library. Saving your print
file means you can easily access it when adding products to your store later on and you don't have
to worry about starting from scratch again. Different Printful products have different design
options in the Mockup Generator, as well as specific guidelines for certain techniques. You
can find detailed guidelines for formatting your designs for each product by clicking on the link
under the product in the Mockup Generator or on our products and pricing page.
There’s a link in the description below. For some of our products, like leggings,
for example, you can choose the print area background color here.
You can click the box here to choose if you want to apply the color to all print placements,
or just the one you are working on. You can also switch from file view to
mockup view to see how your designs look on your chosen product by clicking here.
Another tool available for our all-over print products is the pattern tool.
Choose an element you want to add to your design, for example, I’ll choose this clipart. Now,
in the side menu here, click on “Make a pattern” and choose the type of pattern you want to use.
You can resize and rotate the elements like this, and adjust the spacing between elements
using the slider in the side menu here. When you click on “Back to design tools,” you
can choose the color of both your clipart—and the whole pattern—as well as duplicate it
to other placements by clicking here and choosing where you want the duplicate to go.
You can use this technique to create patterns with cliparts, as well as your uploaded or
Printful samples files like this. And don’t forget to choose the stitch
color for your cut & sew products in the Product tab here!
Then there’s another Mockup Generator feature—for creating mug designs.
In addition to choosing the print area background color here,
you can choose an element like a file you've uploaded to your file library, drag it to one
side of the mug, and then check this box here to duplicate the image on both sides. You can check
out the 3D view of the product by clicking here to see if everything looks like you want it to.
When you’re done, proceed to mockups like with any other product you design.
And that’s all from our Mockup Generator! For more tips on designing,
check out our YouTube channel. Don’t forget to subscribe to never miss out on our latest
videos on Design and other topics. What’s your favorite feature of the
Mockup Generator? Comment down below and have fun designing!