Mock Up Your T-Shirt Graphics on Fabric Panels and Make them Look Real
User Guide
Tutorial Video
Instructions
ADD IN YOUR ART
1) Open your Layers Panel (Window > Layers)
2) Paste your art into this layer group (below the Magic Fabric Texture Layer).
3) Hide the visibility of the example graphic layer (eyeball icon)
4) Double click the Fabric Color thumbnail to edit the fabric color.
ADJUST FABRIC SHADING
5) Turn on the visibility of ONE of the Fabric Panels (eyeball icon). Keep the others invisible.
6) Double click here in the “Shading Levels” layer to increase or decrease the lighting & shadow contrast.
The “Properties” window will open.
7) In the Properties window, you can adjust these sliders to non-destructively add or remove contrast to the fabric shadows.
In general, a white or lighter t-shirt will need less dark shading.
For colored and darker shirts, you can move the leftmost slider to the right until you get the right amount of contrast. Adjust the sliders to where the contrast looks good to your eye. There’s no right or wrong answer here.
MAGIC FABRIC TEXTURE
Please note that the “Magic Fabric Texture” is a very subtle texture meant to increase the realism of your mockup images. This texture is too subtle for real screen printing or DTG printing. For production textures and printing real t-shirts, have a look at the Plastisol Textures, Every Day Textures, Snap Crackle Textures, etc. that can be found in the T-Shirt Design Master Collections 1&2.
8) Click to highlight the Magic Fabric Texture Layer.
9) Adjust the amount of texture by changing the layer opacity.
DISPLACEMENT MAPPING
Displacement Mapping will warp your graphic to follow the fabric wrinkles.
10) Click to highlight your art layer.
11) Go to Window > Distort > Displace...
12) The Displace window will pop up. Choose a Horizontal & Vertical Scale of 30
13) From the Displacement Maps folder, choose the displacement map (1 through 7) that corresponds to the Fabric Panel (1 through 7) that you are using.
14) When your t-shirt image is looking good, you can save it out as a JPEG or PNG using the File > Save for Web function. In most cases you won’t need the full 4000 x 4000 pixel resolution, so you can size the image down during this “Save for Web” function.
If you don’t have T-Shirt Mockup Panels for Photoshop yet, they can be ordered in the following collections:
