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Creating Product Mockups With Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator

by Grace FussellJan 9, 2017

Lessons:14Length:1.8 hours

Branding Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Print Design Graphic Design Brand Identity

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Introduction to Creating Product Mockups

00:56

In this course you’ll learn how to create your own 3D product mockups, using Adobe Illustrator to create 3D shapes and Adobe Photoshop to edit and enhance your designs. This is an immersive, easy-to-follow introduction to some of the tricks and techniques used by professional designers to create photorealistic mockups of their packaging designs.

As well as building a complete suite of mockups for a fictional chocolate brand, you’ll also pick up specific skills for applying advanced effects to mockups, such as mimicking different materials, working with light and shadows, and incorporating subjects into your images.

Learn how to create a visual brand from scratch in our course Designing and Building a Brand.

1.Introduction
2 lessons, 04:54

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1.1
Introduction to Creating Product Mockups
00:56

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1.2
Getting Started
03:58

2.Editing 3d Mockup Templates
3 lessons, 21:35

2.1
Introduction to Creating 3D Mockups
05:46

2.2
Preparing 2D Artwork in Illustrator
06:19

2.3
Feeding the Artwork Into the 3D Template
09:30

3.Creating Your Own Basic 3d Mockups
4 lessons, 31:16

3.1
Introduction to Creating 3D Mockups From Scratch
04:47

3.2
Prepare a 3D Shape in Illustrator
09:51

3.3
Develop the 3D Mockup in Photoshop Part 1
08:48

3.4
Develop the 3D Mockup in Photoshop Part 2
07:50

4.Adding Photorealistic Detail to Your 3d Mockups
4 lessons, 45:41

4.1
Mocking Up Print Documents
08:55

4.2
Mocking Up an Open Spread
14:59

4.3
Materials and Creases
07:26

4.4
Adding a Subject to Your Mockups
14:21

5.Conclusion
1 lesson, 04:22

5.1
We’re Done!
04:22

Grace is a graphic designer and design writer, and heads up creative agency Blue Whippet Studio, based in Manchester, UK. A self-confessed 'print geek', Grace loves to share her experiences of graphic design with others and has written about creative trends and design history for a wide range of publications and blogs, including Adobe, Shutterstock, Envato and InDesign Magazine. Grace studied social anthropology and the anthropology of design at Cambridge University and UCL, before working in marketing and graphic design roles in agencies and in-house. Today she balances running Blue Whippet alongside top-ranking design blog InDesignSkills.com. Visit bluewhippetstudio.com and indesignskills.com.