Create a Book Cover and 3D Mockup with Smartmockups and Canva

the smart mock-ups update was one of my favorite feature rollouts of 2022 you can now access over 8 000 images within the smart mockups library to create professional mock-ups of your designs across technology print apparel and more directly in canva this software integration is going to save you so much time and it's easily accessible from the tools section on the home page let's hop over to canva and I'll show you how to use this feature without further Ado let's top it foreign I'm really excited to walk you through this tutorial because smart mock-ups is actually a past client of mine it has been an incredible journey watching them become an integration of canva because I use this tool at least once a week now I am not trying to mock up my designs to sell to a client but I utilize the mock-up feature to advertise my free content my ebooks my checklist and so if you see little graphics 3D Graphics of my PDFs they have been created using the smart mockups tool which now you don't have to have a separate account to do so it's pretty wild and you can obviously see that I utilize this to create the thumbnail for this video so on the left hand side you see a 3D mock-up of my YouTube passive income guide which is a PDF that I designed within canva and I simply used page one to create this mock-up so when in order for you to have access to all of the mock-ups within the smart mock-ups Library you need to have a canva pro account so if you don't feel free to utilize my link LaShonda brown.com canva45 now you can utilize the first page of a design you've already made in canva or you could use a book cover template and actually advertise a book that doesn't even exist yet so in order for you to create a book cover from scratch you're going to need to start with a canva template canva has over 3 600 templates available for book covers so all you need to do is type that into the search bar and then scroll down to see a cover that fits your aesthetic and has kind of the look you're going for so I really like this personal prayer Journal template but I know just from looking at it this is not sized for a normal sheet of computer paper so if you're going to actually create the entire book within canva I would recommend resizing the template so that you don't have to go back and do that later so for me I tend to size my PDFs for a normal size of computer paper that eight and a half by eleven size so I'm going to go in the top left hand corner and click on Magic resize from there I'm going to select custom size and I'm going to tell canva what I would like to transform this design into the biggest thing is this is sized in pixels and I want inches because that just is easier for me to wrap my head around so I'll type in eight and a half by 11. this is the size I would like for it to be and at that point we need to either copy and resize or completely resize the design because I don't have anything created I don't need another copy I'm just going to hit resize from there you will see that we were missing a lot of space on the left and right hand side by leaving it as it was originally so now that I have resized it I'm just going to click and drag these leaves here to fill the image and then all I need to do is change the text change the fonts and the colors if I wanted to fit my brand more closely when you're done designing your book cover you're just going to rename your design so in this case we're going to do prayer Journal book cover and I actually like to download my book covers and then upload them technically you can select the design but if you design this a long time ago it could take you a while to search for the image so I would just open up the canva design go ahead and click the share button then download and go ahead and download that cover I like to keep things simple over here all right so we're going to go ahead and save that and now we're going to go back to the canva dashboard so what you guys are used to is seeing this dashboard but if you look on the left hand side there is a Smart mock-ups Tab under Tools clicking on that is going to open up a completely different library of images all of these are optimized for you to take your image and drop it into the different areas that you see you can drop it into a smartphone a desktop a laptop tablet watch TV screen e-reader the list goes on and on so it's not just technology you have other categories like print packaging apparel and home and living so you can look at the categories or you can try to type it in the search bar but as you can see I tend to utilize the book mock-up a lot and this tablet almost every single freebie that I have designed I take the front page of that freebie and I slap it on that tablet and I utilize that to Market that free resource over and over and over again it's super versatile because this mock-up has a transparent background and can go on whatever I need it for whether it's on my website or on an Instagram story graphic or in an ad this is super easy to use and it does not require me to go into Photoshop so what I'm going to do is click on one of these book covers here and then I'm going to hit the select button from there I could select and upload or select a design so we're going to click on upload find that prayer Journal cover and upload it to the smart mockups Library here now once it uploads you can easily click on the thumbnail image and hit select but again you do have the option of searching impasse designs to pull in your image but again this is my preference once you select that image you'll click on select it's going to scan it and drop it in now because we did resize this template it actually filled the book cover much more nicely than it would have straight out of the gate but if you do need to make adjustments you can click on adjust image and you can adjust the image sizing you can fill stretch or do a custom image size and you can play around with the alignment you also could flip it if that's something that you need so when you're done you're going to save that mock-up and here's something really interesting about how this is set up you can start a new design with the mock-up so you can say use this mock-up in a design or you can simply download it so if you were to download it it's just going to download it with a transparent background and if you open it back up this is what it would look like but you can also dump in that mock-up into another canva design to take it to the next level so if you wanted to use it in a design we could say oh my goodness I want to create an Instagram story ad so I would type in Instagram story and I can select that Instagram story from there and immediately they're going to take the mock-up you designed and dump it into an Instagram story template from there what I would do to be honest with you is I would duplicate it create a new page and then type in what I'm looking for so I could say I want to sell this book so I'm going to type in sale this is a super cute design actually I like the flash sale one let's do that so we're going to do a flash sale and where you have this cart that has nothing to do with your brand we're going to delete that cut that out and paste it right there and now you have a flash sale on the book you have yet to even create what I love about smart mockups is it makes it incredibly easy for you to Market your digital products that you have designed in canva so this was an example of how you can utilize smart mock-ups to create a mock-up with a transparent background but if you wanted to create an image with your book cover on a book in the image you can also do that with nsmart mockups so all you would need to do is go back to the Smart mockups Tab type in book cover then click on hardcover books and as you can see there are actually images that you could drop in your cover right on top of so let's say for instance we have this image of a person holding the book we could click there select we've got our cover here then hit select we're going to make a little adjustment here and just zoom in just a bit and there you go we have a marketing image for your book that did not require you to leave canva I'm really excited to see what you guys are going to create after watching this tutorial so let me know in the comments before you end this video what you plan on using smart mock-ups to Market in the new year thanks so much for watching this video I'm LaShonda Brown a canva verified expert from Virginia if you would like to try canva Pro free for 45 days so you have access to the full smart mock-ups image Library visit lashondabrown.com canva45 and if you missed my video about how to sell an ebook and grow your email list with photos checkout and canva you'll want to watch that next until next time to talk for now

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Length: 11min 19sec (679 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 05 2022