Web Development: How to Create a T-Shirt Mockup Using a T-Shirt Mockup Generator

How to Create a T-Shirt Mockup Using a T-Shirt Mockup Generator

A T-shirt mockup template is a lifesaver for designers, artists and business owners who want to showcase their artwork or logos without investing the time and money in producing clothing samples, hiring models, and arranging photoshoots.

Mockup of a Woman with a Heather T-Shirt Sitting Against a Wooden Background — One of the many terrific T-shirt mockup templates you will find at Placeit.

If you want to learn how to create amazing T-shirt mockups, we've created a handy T-shirt mockup tutorial just for you. You'll learn how to create an awesome tee-shirt mockup free from hassle with the T-shirt mockup generator from Placeit.

Easy Peasy T-Shirt Mockup Tutorial

Creating a T-shirt mockup is super easy with the Placeit’s T-Shirt Mockup Generator. We'll show you how in this T-shirt mockup tutorial.

1. Navigate to Placeit’s T-Shirt Mockup Generator Page

2. Select a Tee-Shirt Mockup You Like

Browse the tee-shirt mockups available at Placeit and select the mockup that's right for you.

3. Start With the Controls on the Right

When you find a T-shirt mockup you like, click on it and the T-shirt mockup generator will open up.

Starting on the right of the T-shirt mockup generator and upload your image.

Some mockups allow you to add text. When this is possible, you will find an Add Text button above the Upload Image button. Once you have added your text, you can change the font and the colour of the font and move it anywhere in your design you care to.

Start With the Controls on the Right

4. Move to the Controls on the Left

Using the controls to the left of the T-shirt mockup generator, change the background of your T-shirt mockup to match the proposed colour of your T-shirt.

5. Download Your T-Shirt Mockup

One this is done, you can download your T-shirt mockup and send it off to your printer. And that's it. Now you know how to customise T-shirt mockup templates in five easy steps.

1. Mockup of Three T-Shirts Lying Folded on a Bed

A great way to display three variations on the same design, this T-shirt mockup template is simple and easy to use. Just follow the steps as explained in the T-shirt mockup tutorial above and your mockup will be ready to use in no time.

2. T-Shirt Mockup of a Girl With a Halloween Costume

If you're created a special T-shirt design just for Halloween, you'll love the Placeit Halloween-themed T-shirt mockup templates, like this one featuring a young girl in a Red Riding Hood costume with a Jack O'Lantern pumpkin to collect her Halloween treats. Add your special designs using the T-shirt mockup generator and you're good to go.

3. Two Girlfriends Wearing Tee-Shirt Mockup While Lying on the Grass Taking a Selfie

Two Girlfriends Wearing Tees Mockup While Lying on the Grass Taking a Selfie

Looking for T-shirt mockup templates with a great summer feel? Check out this lovely template featuring two teens having fun posing for a selfie. If your target audience is tweens and teens, this T-shirt mockup template is perfect for you.

4. T-Shirt Mockup Featuring a Bearded Man With a Suitcase

A great choice of T-shirt mockup template for travel-themed businesses or even businesses related to fitness. This terrific mockup featuring a young man leaving the airport with his luggage offers the same easy customisation as the other templates featured here.

5. Video of a T-Shirt Inside an Open Suitcase

This T-shirt video template offers another approach to T-shirt mockup templates for travel-themed designs and logos. Featuring a folded T-shirt sitting on top of a packed suitcase, the T-shirt video template is another way of adding interest and freshness to the presentation of your designs.

6. T-Shirt Mockup of a Smiling Senior Lady with Hands on Her Waist

If your target audience is middle-aged, Placeit has a number of templates that feature both female and male middle-aged models. Some like this one allow you to change the colour of the background, which is very handy.

7. T-Shirt Mockup of a Senior Tattooed Man With Sunglasses

Placeit also has great T-shirt mockups for the elderly demographic, so if they're your target audience, rest assured that there are a number of premium templates available like this one of a tattooed man with cool sunglasses.

8. Group Wearing T-Shirts Mockup Near Plants

If you're looking to advertise variations of your design or separate designs all together in the same shot, then this is the T-shirt mockup template for you. The vintage-inspired template allows you to control the customisation of each model's T-shirt separately so you can mix and match colours and designs as you need.

9. Asian Kids Wearing T-Shirts Mockup in a White Room

This sweet photo of two children standing at attention against a neutral background while facing the camera is a great way to display your child-friendly designs. Use the T-shirt mockup generator to add two different designs to the mockup, or you can add the same design but make the background colours of each shirt different if you choose.

10. Mockup of a Man Wearing a Customizable T-Shirt and Trucker Hat in the Street

This is another T-shirt mockup template that keeps the attention fully focused on your design. The template also has the advantage of offering a baseball cap mockup so that you can also add your designs and logos there.

11. T-Shirt Mockup of a Group of Friends Relaxing Outdoors

Are you looking for a template featuring a group of runners for your new design or logo? Then check out this T-shirt mockup template that shows four young adults who have either been out running or are meeting up before their run. You upload each image to the models separately and can create a uniform colour between the shirts if you want to colour them differently.

12. Minimalistic Mockup of T-Shirts Hanging from a Clothing Rack

Sometimes you don't need a model in your mockup—you just want a nice close-up shot of your tee folded or hanging. Well, this tee-shirt mockup is for those times. This one is particularly useful as it allows you to colour each tee separately. You also have control over the image's background colour, which is a great bonus.

13. Mockup of Mother and Daughter Wearing a T-Shirt and Looking at Each Other

This mother daughter shot features slightly different T-shirt styles and is the perfect T-shirt mockup template for those times when you need to display two different designs or one design with two variations.

14. T-Shirt Mockup Featuring a Woman Wearing a Dad Hat by a Chain Link Fence

Sometimes you need a template that combines mockups for caps and tee-shirts and for baseball caps. For those times there is this T-shirt mockup template which would fit in just as easily with a sportswear theme as it would with leisurewear.

15. T-Shirt Mockup of a Flat Lay Outfit for Men

An excellent tee-shirt mockup choice for those who want to show off their logo or design in the simplest way possible, this mockup is ideally suited for sports-themed and casualwear logos or designs.

16. Clothing Mockup of a T-Shirt Over a Flat Backdrop

Placeit offers a number of premium T-shirt mockup templates, like this one, that allow you to drop in your own background easily and quickly. Additionally, this template allows you to add that heather texture that is so common in T-shirts. You can then add an additional colour to your tee if you want or leave as is.

17. Mockup of a Man Wearing T-Shirts with his Son at the Video Arcade

Bring a bit of fun and light-heartedness to your tee-shirt mockup with this adorable image of a father and son team at an amusement park. The image has a nice layered effect as a result of various window glass reflections. These create a lot of atmosphere without obscuring the areas where your design will sit.

18. Mockup of an Elder Lady Wearing a Tshirt from the Back

We’ve shared a lot of examples of front view tee-shirt mockup templates, but this doesn't mean that's all that Placeit offers. There are also a number of back view templates in various combinations and layouts, like this one featuring an older female model walking down a street.

19. Back and Front View Tee-Shirt Mockup of a Man Staring at Woman Facing the Camera

Back and Front View Tee Mockup of a Man Staring at Woman Facing the Camera

On the other hand, what if you're looking specifically for a T-shirt mockup template to show the front and back of your designs or logos? This super image of a couple shot against a neutral background is just what you’re looking for. You can control the colours of both tees separately so that you can make them different colours if you need, and this template also supports overlay text if needed.

20. T-Shirt Mockup of a Happy Girl at Home with her Mom

What could be sweeter than a mother-daughter pair to show off your special design or logo? Whether you need a black T-shirt mockup, a white T-shirt mockup, or some other colour altogether, you can't go wrong with this T-shirt colour customisable template.

Take a T-Shirt Mockup for a Spin Today

Have you found a T-shirt mockup template you love here? Why not add your design to a mockup and share it with us in the comments below.

And remember, all of these designs are super easy to create. Just follow the steps in the T-shirt mockup tutorial above and your mockup will be ready to download in no time.

If you're interested in other kinds of mockups, here are some great suggestions for you: