Use more than 50 designer-created mockups to showcase your best designs in beautiful compositions. You'll find mockups for devices including Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and printed media such as posters, billboards, books, cards, and more.
Mockups are fully customizable — you can change the color of every element in a composition or apply any of the dazzling, alternative lighting effects to change the look and feel of a design.
To open a mockup:
In the template browser, choose the Mockups category and choose a design you like. You can also search for mockups by name or type in keywords to show all related mockups. To see a larger preview of a mockup, press
on your keyboard.(Optional) With some mockups, you can choose from a range of different sizes for your design within the mockup. In the sidebar on the right, you can click the Size pop-up menu and choose a mockup design size.
Click Create to create a document.
You can replace placeholders in mockups with simple JPEG, PNG, or TIFF images of your exported designs, or entire multilayer documents which will remain fully editable when inserted. When inserting mockup documents that you've previously created in Pixelmator Pro, all of their alternative elements will also remain editable.
Replace the placeholder image by doing one of the following:
Pixelmator Pro will use the machine-learning powered Smart Replace feature to insert your designs. Smart Replace combines the power of three other ML features — Remove Background, Super Resolution, Auto Fill — and makes sure your designs fit perfectly into mockups.
Note: If you're using multilayered documents and would like to adjust the entire group, make sure the automatic group selection is enabled. To do that, choose the Arrange tool , at the bottom of the Tool Options pane select the Auto Select option and choose Group from the adjacent pop-up menu.
When using images or documents from Files, you can additionally choose a preferred fill option — Original Size, Auto Fill, Scale to Fill, Scale to Fit, or Stretch.
Choose from a range of different lighting effects — Direct Light, Spotlight, Soft Shadows, Plant Shadows, and more — to find a look that works best for your design.
To change an alternative element in a mockup, do any of the following:
To give mockups a look and feel that compliments your design, you can choose from a set of ready-made color schemes using Document Colors, or change the colors of individual design elements manually.
Click Document Colors to learn how to add it.
If you want, you can further customize the color palette:
To change the color of any of the composition elements surrounding your design, double-click the color thumbnail in the Layers sidebar and use the color picker to choose a new color.
After you're finished designing a mockup, you can save it as an editable document or export it.
Important: When exporting mockups, pay attention to the export method you choose. Quick Export is best for producing images optimized for the web. Designs exported this way will be more lightweight and load quicker on the web but may also lose some level of detail. To export high-quality designs, use the regular Export option in the File menu instead.