How to Make 50 Shirt Mockups at Once (With or Without Photoshop)

If you sell shirts, you know the drill. You finish a new design, and then you spend the next hour opening a mockup, placing the design, saving it, opening the next color, placing it again… and again… and again. Multiply that by every design in a drop and every shirt color you offer, and mockups end up taking longer than the designs did.

I got tired of that in my own shop, so I built a tool that does it all at once. Here's how bulk mockups work, and two ways to do it depending on whether you use Photoshop.

What "bulk mockups" means

Instead of placing one design on one mockup at a time, you pick all your designs and all your mockups, and every design lands on every mockup in one go. Ten designs on five shirt colors? That's 50 mockups from one click.

The trick that makes it fast is naming your files, so the tool knows where each design goes:

• Tigers.png goes on the front
• Tigers_back.png goes on the back
• Tigers_sleeve.png goes on the sleeve
• Tigers_Black.png only goes on black shirts

Name them once and you never drag a design into place again.

Option 1: Bulk Mockup Maker for Photoshop

If you already have Photoshop mockups with a smart object (most mockups you buy do), the Bulk Mockup Maker Photoshop script is for you.

1. Install the script (takes about a minute; the instructions are included).
2. Open your mockup and point the script at your folder of designs.
3. Pick your extras: watermark, shirt colors, and social sizes like 4x5 for Facebook and Instagram.
4. Click run and let it go. It does the front, back and sleeve in one pass.

I made 22 mockups in about a minute the first time I ran it.

Option 2: Bulk Mockup Maker Web (no Photoshop needed)

No Photoshop? No problem. Bulk Mockup Maker Web runs right in your browser. It's one file you open on your computer, and nothing gets uploaded anywhere.

1. Pick your mockups. Use the 380+ mockups in the Lovie T Lifetime Mockup Drive, or load your own flat JPG or PNG mockups.
2. Set your spots. The first time you use a mockup, drag the box where the design goes, resize it from the corner, and tilt it to match the shirt. It remembers next time.
3. Add your designs. Drop in your PNGs, named like above.
4. Make them all. Add a watermark if you want, then download a ZIP or save straight to a folder.

It comes with the Lifetime Mockup Drive (tees, sweatshirts, jerseys, models and flat lays, with new mockups added for life), plus 2 free Adult 11" prints on your next Lovie T order.

Tips for better mockups

• Use transparent PNGs at 300 dpi. The tool trims extra empty space for you.
• Keep the design inside the print area. Watch for folds, hair, straps or coffee cups covering the spot on lifestyle mockups.
• Make a contact sheet. Both tools can make one page showing every mockup, so you can spot mistakes before you post.
• Watermark anything you post publicly so nobody lifts your designs.

Which one should you get?

If you live in Photoshop and already own smart-object mockups, grab the Photoshop version. If you'd rather skip Photoshop or need mockups to start with, the Web version + Lifetime Mockup Drive gives you both the tool and the mockups.

Questions? Message us through the chat on the website. I'm happy to help you get set up.