Trying to find PSD (Smart object) mockup for small coffee cup (6 oz) and saucer set

[vibcol]

yeah, I want to get Photoshop at some stage. I love some of the effects you can buy at graphicsriver but the cost of photoshop at the moment is too much.

On offer til tomorrow for £8.40 a month. Still a subscription, but at that cost it becomes bearable.

[webtrekker]

One way around the Photoshop issue for product mockups is to model the products yourself and render them. For this, you could use free tools such as the excellent Blender - and AutoDesk Fusion 360 -

Here's an example I've done of a cushion, modelled in the free Fusion 360, but rendered in Keyshot 6 as I haven't got Blender installed at the moment ...

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The cushions, before adding the images look like this ...

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The back wall and floor are also modelled and textured with seamless textures. I could, if needed, render the picture as a transparent PNG so that only the cushions and the shadows were rendered, then add a suitable backdrop in Photoshop (or Gimp). These pictures were only rendered for about 10mins in Keyshot and the shadows are a bit noisy. I normally find that I get nice images after about half an hour. It's so simple to relace textures and set up product shots in a renderer (raytracer) once you have a model. You can also download thousands of free models which may suit your purposes, saving you the step of modelling them yourself.

[webtrekker]

For those of you evenly remotely interested, here's a quick 5 minute rendering of the stage I modelled for the mockups. Talk about cheap 'B' movies!!!

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[Customprintwales]

Looks good but to be honest with you I tend to just use Placeit.net now for the majority of my mockups.

On occasions I will also use the free psd mock up you can get online. Most of them will open with Gimp and with a little adjust work perfectly well.

But Placeit wins big time for most mock up especially now they have a growing range of videos which with a bit of adjustment in Powerpoint are ideal for Facebook and Instagram ads

[webtrekker]

Looks good but to be honest with you I tend to just use Placeit.net now for the majority of my mockups.

On occasions I will also use the free psd mock up you can get online. Most of them will open with Gimp and with a little adjust work perfectly well.

But Placeit wins big time for most mock up especially now they have a growing range of videos which with a bit of adjustment in Powerpoint are ideal for Facebook and Instagram ads

I agree, and that's fine provided you can get a mockup for the product you're interested in, but in the past I've had to make my own mockups for things such as '12oz two-tone mugs with spoons', for which there was nothing decent available. Considering I sold many of these with my own designs on, it was certainly worth the effort.

Also, I've found that some customers are really particular about the shape of the product and will look, for instance, for mugs with handles shaped the way they like, and will complain or return a product if it's not similar to the mockup. For that reason, I even design my standard mugs to have handles matching the actual mug. Mockups are great, and produce very lifelike representations, but they need to be an exact replica of the product on sale.

Or maybe I'm too picky!

Looks good but to be honest with you I tend to just use Placeit.net now for the majority of my mockups.

Hmm... To be honest, I'd rather spend the $29 a month subscription for Placeit on a Photoshop subscription. Just my opinion mind.

[paul 44]

I'd rent it, that's what I do, costs me £10.10 per month, i have GIMP also but since I got Photoshop I've never used it really, yes gimp is free and PS will set you back £10.00 a month but it's worth it if you ask me. You also get lightroom with the package which is also good if you like taking pics on your phone/camera and is a great piece of software to have and it can work wonders if you have a crappy pic you want to spruce up a bit.
Takes a bit of learning but if you have used GIMP then im sure it wont take you long to get the basics covered, just a matter of getting used to it really.