Product Mock-up Sources

[Jadendreamer13]

What’s the best place to find affordable, high-quality product mock-ups? I know affordable and high-quality don’t typically go together. I’d love your feedback so I can start evaluating your favorite sources before I pay for a subscription.

Thanks!

[PenguinPower]

Are you looking for something that is plug and play? Or just backgrounds? I believe if you buy any Adobe Creative Cloud subscription - even the least expensive one, for just Photoshop at $9.99/month you get access to the free portion of their stock library. That would give you a good amount of images and the software to work with them, and I think, even a little access to Firefly pretty cheaply.

I've found I can usually find something appropriate with a little searching and the quality is very good. I also think the images that are in the free pool may rotate.. either that or they just get a lot of submission. It seems to me that looking for the same thing turns up new images pretty regularly. If you want to see the output, feel free to browse my stores (collections might get you more hits for things I've made covers for.. I've been focusing on them right now), or I can add some examples here if you'd like - probably 99% of the images I've used have come from their library, though recently I've been using a little AI for things I've had trouble sourcing anywhere. 

P.S. - the free images include "standard" licensing - it's good for covers - it allows unlimited web views,  use of the asset in email marketing, mobile advertising, social media, or a broadcast program, and modifications. You cannot however use anything acquired with standard licensing on a product - you need to purchase "extended" licensing for anything that will be resold, modified or not. 

[Jadendreamer13]

Excellent. I have subscriptions to Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. I will check out their free stock library and your collections. I am interested in plug-and-play sources, flat lays, and backgrounds.

[KeegansCreation]

You can use Generative Fill in Photoshop to make backgrounds. When I need highest quality plug n' play that is fast I use Creative Market. But it's pricey. Generative Fill doesn't always work as expected but sometimes does so you might as well start there since you already have it. Then if it makes unusable results, go to Adobe Stock as advised by Penguin Power or try MorgueFile or Pixabay for backgrounds. CreativeFabrica has some good flatlays too. If you do lots of those, a subscription could be worth it.

[ievajen]

then you can generate on photoshop, almost times Im happy with they results

[idraw]

@Jadendreamer13 

Posted these last year:

https://www.psdsuckers.com/tag/product-mockups/
I found Pilow, tote, T-shirt mock-ups and more…
Assortment of free product mockups to download.
Also
https://www.pixpine.com/?s=T-shirt

[Jadendreamer13]

Wow, thank you all. I’ll be doing lots of homework this evening.

[Connie]

I get a lot of mine from Etsy. You can find some good quality mockups there for cheap, especially when the shops offer 50% discounts. (It's coming up to sale season, when almost everybody offers huge discounts!) If you want to spend more for one-of-a-kind custom mockups, Creative Mockup Art there does custom work starting at $15. I tried Placeit, but VERY few mockups actually match Zazzle's product exactly, and a lot of them are blurry (like the shower curtains!) I broke down and got a Freepik subscription- they do have a lot of good mockups, but their search is horrible!

[Jadendreamer13]

Thanks, Connie. I will check out these sources, plus all the other sources folks have suggested. Is the Creative Mockup Art an Etsy shop?

[Connie]

Yes.

[Maralane]

Lots of great advice on this thread. Really appreciate it

[Perelandrian]

Microsoft Bing Image Creator is totally free. You can definitely get some decent mockups on there.

https://www.bing.com/?FORM=GENBHP

[ColsCreations]

Wow, that gave some pretty impressive results (it says it's based on Dalle 3) but the images are 1084 x 1084 and product covers are supposed to be a minimum of 1480 x 1480 so you'd have to enlarge them or add more canvas around them and get creative with it. Thanks for the link, that's a nice free generator to add to one's tools. 🙂

[Wildart]

here is an image resizer, that sharpens and increased image size ...

https://www.pixelcut.ai/image-upscaler    check it out yourself, but I think its ok to use for free

[Waqar_Muhammad]

But you cannot use images created by bing image creator for commercial purpose.

[ColsCreations]

But you cannot use images created by bing image creator for commercial purpose.

I'm not so sure about that. I read the terms the other night and there is nothing in them prohibiting commercial use. It doesn't even mention commercial or non-commercial use. It does say though that Microsoft claims no ownership of any content you generate. Googled this just now and there are lots of sites with people saying you can't use Bing's Image Creator for commercial purposes, citing or screenshoting the above linked page, like in this blogger's post from Dec 28, 2023:

But no such passage exists so it seems that the terms must have been updated somewhat recently and all the pages/posts out there saying you can't are based on outdated terms as the terms themselves don't prohibit it or even mention commercial or non-commercial use .

[Waqar_Muhammad]

Maybe, But I think we have to email zazzle content review team before taking risk.

[Perelandrian]

I did some reading on it too, and not going to worry about it. I'll wait for Bill Gates to come show up at my door with a warrant 🤣🤣 Plus, there was a law passed recently that states AI images cannot be copyrighted.... Which makes sense considering they're merely an amalgation of millions of already copyrighted and non-copyrighted images.

No new thing under the sun.

[Waqar_Muhammad]

I have created this using playground ai. Create 500 images per day for free.

[Wildart]

you can always mock up your own..take photos of settings with a blank picture frame, a plain t shirt, etc...

[Perelandrian]

I also forget to mention, PicsArt is a more affordable alternative for those of us who don't want to pay Adobe. You can basically do all the same functions. It's about $60 or so for the year. They have a helpful Remove Background tool, and a partnership with Unsplash royalty-free images that you can access directly via the app. It's come a long way since its inception, I personally find it easier to use than Canva and well worth the $$.

[origamiprints]

I purchase most of mine through Creative Market and Canva. 

[ZoeChapman]

I primarily create my own in Canva.  The paid for account has been the best £9.99 a month ever spent!  I sometimes purchase from Etsy, Creative Market or other sites if I need something more specific.  Think it all depends on what product you are creating for. 

[origamiprints]

I totally agree. Canva is definitely worth the investment!