How to use a mock-up in Photoshop?

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What is a mock-up?

A mock-up is a model that will allow you to put a visual in a situation. Whether it is to highlight a draft website, business cards, flyers, an ebook, … for a presentation or other.

It is not necessary to be a graphic designer to use a mock-up, there are plenty of them ready to be used to insert your design in Photoshop!

Go to a search engine and type “mock-up”, many sites offer it for free.

Find the one that interests you and download it.

How to use a mock-up in Photoshop?

1. Open your mockup in Photoshop

Open your document © Romain Duclos

Open your document

2. How is this mock-up made?

In the layers window you will see different layers appear – more or less numerous – depending on the model downloaded.

What to spot is the Dynamic layer with a symbol at the bottom right of the thumbnail

Dynamic slap © Romain Duclos

Dynamic layer

3. Double click on the thumbnail of the dynamic layer.

This will open flat in a new tab and we will be able to modify it.
This is the image that was inserted into the smartphone.

Double click on the thumbnail © Romain Duclos

Double click on the thumbnail

4. Now insert your final visual here

Go to File tab > Import and Embed

Import and embed © Romain Duclos

Import and embed

5. Your design will open in the same window.
You just have to adjust it according to the right dimensions.

Tip: For a manual transformation use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl (Cmd) + T

Adjust your visual © Romain Duclos

Import your image

Adjust your visual.  © Romain Duclos

Adjust your visual.

6. When everything is correct save your changes

File > Save

File >  Save © Romain Duclos

File > Save

7. Click on the visual tab of your initial mock-up and the original image has been replaced by yours.

Result © Romain Duclos

Result

You can replace this image again by doing the same operation as before.
If you download other mock-ups, locate the dynamic layer to update it with your visual.

You will find mock-ups of any style so no limit.

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