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Place in mockup

Open a Photoshop mockup, replace the smart object with your design, and export the scene. The PSD is converted once into a small runtime format, so no Photoshop and no PSD parser is involved after the import.

Get Aspects

One of the tools in Aspects for macOS. $19 once, cloud optional.

Import a PSD once
Everything below the smart object flattens into a plate, everything above survives as an ordered overlay list, and the object itself becomes a quad, a mask and an opacity. A 110 MB file becomes a few MB.
Refusing is the feature
Around a quarter of real mockups use something this model cannot reproduce, like an adjustment layer reading pixels that do not exist yet. Those are named as blockers before any pixel work starts, rather than half-rendered.
Pick the surface
When a scene has more than one candidate smart object, you choose which one your design goes on. The others stay exactly as they came, with their own placeholder art.
Perspective and mask
Your design is warped onto the object's own quad and clipped by its layer mask, so it follows the scene's angle and anything in front of it stays in front.
Export for the web
Mockup sources are print-resolution. Export at the scene's full size or at a long edge of 800, 1200, 1600, 2000, 2560 or 3200 px.
Six formats
PNG, JPEG, progressive JPEG, HEIC, AVIF and WebP, with a quality control and an estimated file size before you write anything.

What it is for

Putting a design into a photograph. A poster on a wall, a card on a desk, a book on a table, a sign in a street — the scene is a real photograph and your artwork sits in it as though it were there.

Where Device mockup uses a chassis that ships with Aspects, Place uses a mockup you brought. That is the distinction: one is a device we supply, the other is any scene you own.

It reads Photoshop mockups

Commercial mockups are sold as layered .psd files with a smart object where the artwork goes. Aspects imports one, finds that placement, and converts it once into its own format — so you can use the mockup library you already bought without opening Photoshop.

After the conversion the mockup is a file in your library. Reuse it with different artwork as often as you like; the import happens once.

How it works

Import the mockup, drop in your design, and it is warped into the placement with the scene's own perspective, lighting and texture on top. What made the photograph convincing — the shadow across the paper, the grain of the desk — stays convincing, because it is still the photograph.

What you get

  • PNG or JPEG at any output ratio
  • A converted mockup you can reuse with any artwork

One honest limitation

A mockup is only as good as its source. A .psd whose smart object is small or low resolution will produce a soft result no matter what you place in it, and no amount of export quality recovers detail the scene never had.