GIMP Tutorial: Realistic Screen Mockup

[Music] this is Nick with logos by Nick comm and in today's tutorial I'll be demonstrating how you could take a screenshot of an already designed website and mock it up onto a display like you see here on my screen and have it look realistic with the reflection of light from a window in the room and everything like that and if you'd like to know how you can customize with these updated icons I'll have the link to that in the description as well so let's go ahead and get started the first thing I'm going to do is open up the image I'll have that link in the description I'll just right click that and open it with and there we have our image and what we want to do now is right-click on the layer and add an alpha Channel and the first thing we want to do is we want to get rid of this red area of the screen we want this to be grayed out so what I'm going to do is I'm going to duplicate this layer I'll click this button this has created duplicated a layer and add it to the image click on that and what I'm going to do is go to colors and desaturate and I'll leave this at lightness and just go ahead and click OK and what I want to do now is get rid of the area outside of the screen because we still want the color of the walls in there so what I'm going to do is I'm just gonna grab the pads tool keyboard shortcut is B and I'm just going to zoom in on this top left corner over here by holding ctrl and rolling up the mouse wheel and I'm going to put a point right here and move down here put a point down there we want these lines by the wave to move the page I'm just pressing down the mouse wheel and moving the mouse we want these align this line to be going through the black area or the the frame of the screen like that go ahead and create some points going through there all the way around clicking to create a new point up there over here right there and then back to the starting point I'm going to hold ctrl on the keyboard and then click the starting point now let me zoom out a little bit by holding ctrl and rolling down the mouse wheel with this selected I'm going to press ENTER on the keyboard to create a selection and then I'll go to select invert and then I'll press Delete on the keyboard or if you're using Mac go to edit clear and what we'll do now is go to select none and I'm actually going to uh let's grab the move tool we get rid of those those pads and I'm going to turn off the visibility of this layer right here and I'm going to click on the layer beneath it with the red screen so we can start working on this the first thing I want to do is get rid of the inside of the screen altogether so to do that I'm going to use the fuzzy select tool and I'm going to bring the cursor over here and I'm going to click and drag on this area until it creates a selection going around the entire screen like that and then just press Delete on the keyboard to get rid of that area or again if you're using a Mac go to edit clear so once that's done we can go to select none and as you can see there's still like that logo left over because uh from the the fuzzy select tool so we'll just grab the eraser tool and just get rid of that and the problem we have now is that there's a little bit of red left over around the edges so to get rid of that I'm going to go to colors hue/saturation and I'm going to click on r4 red I'm going to come down here to where it says saturation and just bring that all the way to the left and you'll notice it gets rid of that red in there and go ahead and click OK and we can hold ctrl and roll out I'll roll down on the mouse wheel and what what you could do now if you want is you could actually save this as a template so if you want to place other designs in here in the future you don't have to keep going back and doing these steps over and over again so you can just go to file save as save it as a file I think it's dot xcf or sub XFC or something like that it'll be the default selection so go ahead and save that if you want what we're going to do now is grab a snapshot of the website so I'm going to open up Chrome here so what I'm going to do now is I'm just going to press print screen on the keyboard to grab a snapshot of the website and I'll come back to and I'll go to edit paste as and we want to select new image and if you notice it tasted a snapshot of everything that was on my screen and in my case it pasted the my other monitor as well that I'm using to record this but you could just ignore that so well the reason why we pasted this in a separate image is because we just want to crop out this area of the website here we don't want to include like the the windows taskbar or the the URL box up here so what I'm going to do is I'm going to grab the the crop tool and I'm just going to create a box going roughly over the area we want to crop out and now what we could do is just hold ctrl and roll up the mouse wheel to zoom in and just grab the bounding boxes in the corner and just place them where you'd like them to be leave that right there you scroll down to the bottom I'll take this one put that right there and these two should be alright actually now I'm going to move this over here and I'll put this one that one looks like it's alright so I'll leave that right there and once we have the bounding boxes of the crop tool where we want the image to be cropped let's go ahead and press Enter and there's our new image and with that selected we can go to edit copy and now we can go back to our image over here and go to edit paste size new layer and what I'm going to do is I'm going to take this clipboard layer and click and drag it beneath the screen - - tutorial so it goes beneath here in this screen and I'm going to grab the move tool and I'm going to click and drag the screen out of the way and I'm going to hold ctrl and roll down the mouse wheel a little bit and I'm going to grab the perspective tool now and click on the image that's over here and if you notice I have the image opacity down 18.5 it might be easier for you to bring that down I by default it's set at 100 so for me I find it's usually easy to bring it down to like 20 or something like that so I'll leave that day let me get this in here with the perspective tool I'm going to take each of these corners and place them in the corners of the television I come over here and grab that and again to move the page around like this I'm just pressing down the mouse-wheel and moving the mouse and now I'm going to zoom in on this to align this on a granular level I'm going to place the corner within the black frame of the TV and come over here and do this with the rest of the corners do this over here like that put that there and let me just go through and double check everything make sure it looks all right make sure none of the image is sticking out of the black frame I want to move this over a little bit and that's looking pretty good so I'll finalize that by clicking transform and there we have the screen inside of there we have the website inside of the screen so what we're going to do now is come back up here to this top layer and turn the visibility of that back on and now what we want to do is well first we want to get rid of this logo in here so let me grab the healing tool which is right here and I'm going to hold ctrl and roll up the mouse wheel to zoom in a little bit I want the brush side to be about 106 right now and I want to grab this I'm going to hold ctrl on the keyboard and click right about there to grab that as the selection and that selection is going to be the reference point for everything we click on afterwards so once we've done that I'm going to bring the cursor over to this logo over here press on that just to get rid of that now we go back to the move tool it's going to hold control and roll down the mouse wheel to zoom back out and now with this layer selected we can go to the drop down where it says mode and change that to hard light and you'll notice now we have the reflection of the light from the window in the room shining on the screen but it's a little too it's a little too abrupt because it's graying out part of the white areas of the website so to fix that I'm going to take the opacity bring it down to like 60 maybe a little less done like that and there we have it that's pretty much how you can create that using the only step left to be now is if you really want to be granular with this we can click on the screen tutorial layer and let me zoom in and show you these edges here are a little choppy so if you'd like to smooth them out you can grab the crop tool put a point right there put a point through here a point through there put a point going through that with those areas back over here and then coming through here back to the starting point hold ctrl and click on the starting node and press Enter and then press the Delete on the keyboard and again if you're using mac we're going to edit clear now we go to select none click off of that tool to deselect it if you notice those choppy edges are now gone and you can come and do that down here as well this looks a little these a little jagged down here so to fix that again I'm going to grab the pad tool and create a line create a path going through that oops one more going through here like that back to the starting point holds control click on the first node hit enter and press delete select none click off of that tool to get rid of those nodes and I'm going to press 1 on the keyboard to zoom back out to a hundred percent and with that we're finished we have created our website mock-up onto a screen using so if you have any questions let me know and as always thanks for watching [Music] Oh

Channel: Logos By Nick

Views: 49,977

Keywords: graphic design, learn graphic design, graphic design for beginners, gimp tutorial, realistic screen mockup, gimp screen mockup, nick saporito, logos by nick, logosbynick

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Length: 10min 40sec (640 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 23 2017