Mockup Baker Plugin

Elliot Vance was a UI designer who hated mockups. Not the final result—the glossy, perfectly angled product shots that made apps look like they belonged in a museum—but the process of making them. Every client pitch demanded a “rich, contextual presentation.” That meant slapping his carefully crafted interface designs onto floating iPhones, bent MacBooks, or crumpled paper menus in a coffee shop.

Here is the typical workflow:

2. Realistic Displacement and Lighting

The plugin uses advanced displacement mapping. If you are putting a logo on a crumpled paper bag or a t-shirt with folds, Mockup Baker reads the depth map of the surface. Your design doesn't just look pasted on top—it looks printed on the material. It bends with folds, fades with shadows, and reacts to the lighting of the original base image. mockup baker plugin

  1. Take a photo of any textured surface.
  2. Import it into Photoshop.
  3. Go to Filter > 3D > Generate Normal Map (Photoshop CC). Save this map.
  4. In Mockup Baker, select "Import Custom Depth Map."
  5. Now, any design you drop onto that specific photo will automatically crumple perfectly.

The Mockup Baker plugin is a specialized extension designed for popular design platforms like Figma, Adobe Photoshop, and Illustrator. Its primary function is to "bake" or project 2D flat graphics onto complex 3D meshes and surfaces. Elliot Vance was a UI designer who hated mockups

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