How To Create REALISTIC Mockups for your logo designs!

Hey guys, what's going on? It's me Will Patterson, welcome back to a new video. Today, I'm gonna show you something different. I'm gonna 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 wanna do is in Photoshop, we're gonna bring in an image. I'm just gonna 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 onto 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 a 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 in, 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 gonna do is hold Alt or Option, and just double click on the background layer, and I'm gonna call this Cup. There's a lot of things I could do better, however, I'm gonna show you how to get the work onto the cup face itself. So we're gonna 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. We're gonna change the color of the rectangle to any color, and then right here, I'm gonna 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 effects. So on the smart object, we're gonna call this the edit. I'm gonna change the opacity to around 30, so I wanna 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 gonna 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 gonna go to the default, the custom warp one up here. The first thing we wanna do is just approximately bring up the warp in the corners like so, kind of matching the corners, not perfectly, because we wanna 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 gonna 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 changed 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 up here to apply it. We intentionally had some overlap here because we're gonna mask that out later. It's gonna be a lot easier for us to use. The next thing we're gonna 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 color's a bit strange. There's no work on it, but we have these 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 gonna drag all the way around it like so, and it'll create a really nice, quick selection. It's amazing. Then I'm gonna 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 work for you, go ahead and use the pen tool. I'm gonna call this selection. I'm gonna 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 gonna 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 OK, select the coffee cup again, and we'll mask it again, and you'll see that we get a lot nicer of 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 on 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 hardness 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. I 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 mug, 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, and 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, so it'll 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'll break apart, but it's a lot more of a softer effect. And what we want to do is just bring in 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 color the lid of 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 advise 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, 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 color in this lid. We're gonna go to layer, we're gonna go to new fill layer, solid color, and we're gonna press okay. We're gonna change this to something crazy, like another pink. Bring this down for now. Okay, we have a solid color 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. We're gonna copy and paste it because it makes life easier for myself. I 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 gonna press command shift and I to invert it. Now, I'm gonna bring the fill color to the top here. I'm gonna change it to linear burn again so we can see what's underneath it. I'm gonna select the top of the coffee cup again, so the lid. Then I'm going to press command shift and I. That's gonna invert the selection. So when we click on the actual mask for the color fill, we 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 gonna change the opacity of this so we just have a little bit of color there. But now when we double click, you can see that we can change the color of this lid and it has a metallic look to it as well. So we can change the brightness to make it this sort of green autumnal color. And there you have it. There is the mock-up. 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 mock-up onto, I don't know, a coffee cup or anything else that you can think of. Using these methods and principles, this is how you do it. If you enjoyed this video, then please press the red subscribe button and turn notifications on. I post every week, twice a week. And the whole goal of this channel is to teach you things, to inspire you, and to make you become a better graphic designer or creative professional. 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