20+ Incredible Midjourney Prompts to Create Your Professional Mockups
Visual examples, tricks and tips for creating an outstanding mockup for your products
As a designer, mockups are a critical part of the design process. They allow you to showcase your brilliant ideas and interface designs in a realistic context.
With Midjourney V6, creating mockups just got a whole lot easier! Midjourney can generate incredibly detailed and high-quality mockups that will wow your clients.
In this post, I’ll share my best tips and prompts for crafting professional mockups with Midjourney.
Create Professional Mockups with Midjourney V6 Like an Expert
Today, I will show you how to create professional mockups step-by-step with the right prompts and tools.
Start with a basic mockup and we will refine and add in more details with items, settings, and contexts.
- Start with the Basic
- Spice It Up With Decor Items
- Set the Scene with Context
- Retouch with Materials
- Refine with Style
I will also walk you through creating a professional mockup with your own products at the end.
Let’s get started!
1. Start with the Basic
Let’s start simple — a basic mockup on a plain background. This keeps the focus on your design.
You will want to include the word
- plain surface
- clean background
- < color > background
Smart Phone Mockup — Basic
Prompt: A Mockup of an blank iphone screen sitting on a plain surface
To add a human touch, include a hand holding the device:
Smart Phone Mockup — Basic with a hand holding
Prompt: A Mockup of a blank iphone screen. A hand holding the phone plain background
2. Spice It Up With Decor Items
Let’s take this mockup up a notch and add in some office staples — pencils, pens, a coffee mug, some vases with colorful flowers or some plants to make it look authentic.
Add some office or home items to make the mockup feel more realistic:
- Books
- Coffee mug
- Eyeglasses
- Magazines
- Pens
- Plants
- Stationaries
Supplement Bottle Mockup — with plants
Prompt: A mockup of a blank supplement bottle sitting on a clean white background with plants behind, minimal setting
This minimal and clean mockup is perfect for showcasing your logo. Here I added a logo created with Midjourney.
Let’s keep going! This time, I want to create some more mockups with different interfaces which is extremely useful for UI designers.
Smartphone Mockup
Prompt: A Mockup of a blank iphone screen sitting on a concrete table, with office stationaries beside it
Computer Mockup
Prompt: A Mockup of a blank computer screen sitting on a wooden table with plants and a coffee mug beside
Tablet Mockup
Prompt: A Mockup of a blank tablet screen sitting on a wooden table in a coffee shop, with a cup of coffee beside , beautiful sunlight
Related Article: 40+Midjourney Prompts to Create Outstanding UI Design
3. Set the Scene with Context
The setting or context of your mockup is key. Specify if it’s for a home, office, coffee shop, etc.
This provides important context for your audience.
This also varies depending on who your target audience is; a poster seen in someone’s living room, an office building, or even a coffee shop can change how your mock-up is perceived when you present to your client or audience.
Poster Mockup — Living Room
Prompt: A mockup of a blank poster frame sitting on top of a sofa, contemporary style living room
Poster Mockup — Building
Prompt: A mockup of a blank poster frame sitting inside a luxurious hotel lobby, beside the elevator
Poster Mockup — Coffee Shop
Prompt: A mockup of a blank poster on the concrete wall in front of a coffee shop,beautiful sunlight
Depending on the different settings, the style can be much different. To create a more vibrant setting, be sure to add an interior or architectural design style.
📌 A Tip for Size
When providing instructions to MJ for creating mockups of different sizes, it’s essential to be very specific and detailed in your prompts. It would be helpful to include the exact dimensions you require for each size. For example, you could specify “landscape size with dimensions 18x12 inches,” or “portrait size with dimensions 24x36 inches.”
By being precise about the dimensions, you can increase the likelihood of MJ generating the exact sizes you need for your mockups.
Now, let’s go outdoors and create something huge!
Bus Stop Billboard Mockup — New York street
Prompt: Mockup empty, blank billboard at the bus stop, in the middle of New York street
Billboard Mockup — Highway
Prompt: A mockup of a blank billboard in the middle of the highway with cars passing below
4. Refine with Materials
To enhance the realism and professionalism of your mockups, consider incorporating materials such as stone or wood, based on the specific project requirements, whether it involves countertops or background images.
- Ceramics
- Concrete
- Glass
- Leather
- Marble
- Stone
- Wood
Business Card Mockup — Ceramic Table
Prompt: A mockup of a blank business card sitting on a ceramic table with beautiful lighting and shadow, minimal and clean
Cushion Mockup — Leather Sofa
Prompt: A mockup of a blank cushion sitting on a luxurious bed in a french style bedroom
5. Add Stylistic Touches
Refine your mockup further with descriptive styles to match the branding:
- Classy
- Elegant
- High end
- Luxurious
- Minimal
- Modern
- Mysterious
- Vintage
Photo Frame Mockup — Wooden Table & Minimal and Clean Style
Prompt: A mockup of a blank photo frame sitting on a wooden table with plants besides, minimal and clean style
Hand Wash Bottle Mockup — Cream Marble Countertop & high-end and Classy Style
Prompt: A mockup with a blank hand wash bottle on a cream marble countertop in the luxurious bathroom, high end and classy style
Don’t forget to check out my other posts on creating high-end mockup and product photography after this, it will take your mockup to the next level!
6. Mock-Up Stage for Products
Sometimes, you just need a mock-up background to stage your product.
For product shots, create a custom mockup stage. Specify shape, color, and style.
We can also start with a basic with only the color specified.
A Minimal Mock-Up Stage
Prompt: A mockup stage design. A clear circle, minimal mockup stage with the color of pale blue, bright white and warm tan
Adding Decors
A Clear Circle Stage with Plants
Prompt: A mockup stage design. A clear circle, minimal mockup stage designed with plants around, beige and wood color
A Flat Wood Stage
A minimal mockup stage design. A flat wood on a clean light beige background, with some stones, and leaf, a flat front shot, horizontal composition, soft lighting
Adding Settings, Style and Details
Prompt: A minimal mockup stage design with shapes that comes in three different size in a unsymmetrical composition, soft and dreamy depiction, linear illustration, soft peach pantone color
Recreate Designer Style
For a specific designer aesthetic, include their name:
Circle Stage Mockup — Inspired by Van Gogh
Prompt: A mockup stage design. A clear circle, minimal mockup stage designed by Van Gogh, dark cyan and amber color
Festive Theme
Christmas
Prompt: A minimalist stage design style with vibrant stage back style, with Christmas decorations and Christmas boxes in the background, color of noel red, warm gold, creamy white, C4D modeling
Chinese New Year of Dragon
A mockup stage design. A clear circle with chinese new year theme, decorated with new yeat lattern and dragon, red and gold color
Easter
A mockup stage design. A clear circle with an easter theme, easter elements and decoration, dreamy pastel color palette of baby pink and blue
Creating stunning mockups with Midjourney is not that difficult, I think you may have noticed that it follows a specific format.
You can always use this basic structure to start.
A [ mockup/mockup stage] design of [ product ], [ decorating items ] [ background or context ], [ 1- 3 descriptive style], [ color palette ]
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