Design Mockups in Illustrator with Real-Life Objects
Bring Your Brand to Life: Mockup is now GA with Smoother Performance and High-Quality Results. Vector art auto-adjusts onto planar surfaces realistically when you create a Mockup.
Check out this quick tutorial by Tony Harmer, AKA Design Ninja, to know more about this feature.
Tony Harmer, Chief Enchantments Officer at Wizardry Ltd.
Tony Harmer (a.k.a The Design Ninja) is a creative Swiss-army-knife and learning-content author with a three-plus-decade career that has given him a broad experience base to draw upon, including some time as a press operator, several years as a concept artist in IP development, several more as an instructor in many applications, delivering graphic production training worldwide, and a few more as a specialist solutions consultant for Adobe. He is the author of several video tutorials on LinkedIn Learning and running a growing YouTube channel. Tony is a popular speaker/presenter. His often-off-the-wall sessions always provide a ton of tips, techniques, insights, and inspirations delivered with humor and enthusiasm that is totally infectious.
Access Mockup
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Access Mockup from a couple of locations:
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Personalize Mockup with Custom Images
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Utilize your own raster image or select from the free curated image templates in the Mockup panel to create mockups.
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Template Saving and Management
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Save your mockup by selecting it and clicking the save icon in the Mockup panel. Templates appear in "Your Mockups," showing vector art positions. |
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Edit your Artwork across multiple objects
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After creating a Mockup, your artwork is automatically included in the Symbols Panel as a Symbol. |
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Blending Modes
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For a more realistic appearance in your artwork, you can utilize the blending options found within the Transparency panel. These options allow you to incorporate details from the raster image, such as lighting effects, curves, and distortions. |
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Learn More & Provide Feedback
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Feel free to provide your experiences and feedback by using the designated "Share Feedback" button. |
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Key Considerations for Best Results:
- Elements such as mesh, graph, gradient mesh, freeform gradient, placed art, non-native art, raster, or raster effects aren't supported as mockup art. For unsupported elements, Object > Mockup > Preview Mockup / Create Mockup will be greyed out or a warning message will appear indicating that Mockup will lead to an appearance mismatch.
- Vector art containing a clip group or expanding to a clip group such as pattern isn't supported as mockup art.
- You can't create a mockup inside a mockup.
- Quality issues can occur with reflective surfaces, small grooves, and images of the sky.
- You can't directly apply vector effects from the Effect menu on vector art within a mockup group. Switch to symbol editing mode to apply vector effects.
- Linked Illustrator files aren't supported. Embed the files to use them in mockup.
- You can't create a mockup with multiple images.
- GPU is required in your computer for Mockup to work.
- You can't add mockup contaning multiple vector objects to Your Mockups.
- You can't directly add mockup created in Illustrator 28.5 and earlier versions to Your Mockups.
For more details about this new feature, please click here.
We’d love to hear from you!
Try out the new "Mockup" feature and let us know your thoughts. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions or need more tips!
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