20+ Incredible Midjourney Prompts to Create Your Own Professional Mockups
Visual examples, tricks and tips for creating an outstanding mockup for your products
As a designer, it’s a must to show our designs on mockups — it’s all part of our job! It adds the “wow” factor to the project and helps us make sure we’re delivering exactly what the client wants.
Mockups are an effective way to display interface designs. With Midjourney, you can easily produce professional mock-ups with exceptional quality that promote your products and business!
With the right prompt, you can create a prompt that can take your mockup designs to the next level.
MidJourney AI is an awe-inspiring platform that can create highly detailed visuals with its text-to-image prompt feature! It’s quite a boon for the creative industry.
If you are just starting, I know it’s challenging to craft the perfect prompt. So, here is a beginner’s guide and list of prompts to get you started:
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
- Decorating Items and Objects
- Setting and 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
We can always start with one simple product or interface that comes with a clean plain background.
A simple mockup with minimized surrounding items is great when you want your design to stand out
You will want to include the word
- plain surface
- clean background
- < color > background
Smart Phone Mockup — Basic
Prompt: Mockup empty, blank iphone screen, on a plain surface
If you find this to be too plain, we can always refine it with a bit of human touch by adding a hand.
Smart Phone Mockup — Basic with a hand holding
Prompt: Mockup empty, blank smartphone screen, a hand holding the phone, plain background
Let’s try one more with a tote bag mocjup.
Tote Bag Mockup
Prompt: Mockup empty, a person’s holding a white blank tote bag
Ummmmmmm, how creative, Midjourney! 👀
Although we are looking for some basic mockup, you will want to be specific with the words in your prompt.
So make sure you add details in your prompt to be more accurate. This time, I added the word “hand’ ✋🏻 and “yellow wall”
After refining the prompt, here is the result!
Prompt: Mockup empty, a person’s hand holding a white blank tote bag, in front of a yellow wall
2. Adding Decorating Items and Objects
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 really make it look authentic.
Here is a list of items that often appear in professional mockups
- plants
- stationaries
- eyeglasses or sunglasses
- magazines
- pens
- books
- vase of flowers
- coffee cup
Supplement Bottle Mockup — with plants
Prompt: Mockup empty, a blank supplement bottle, on a clean white background, with leaf behind
This minimal and clean mockup is perfect for showcasing your logo. Here I added a logo created with Midjourney.
I have written a list of 20+ logo prompts. Be sure to check out if you are interested.
You will want to make sure that you write the right prompt to get a transparent background which is essential if you want to place the design on a mockup.
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: Mockup empty, blank smartphone screen, on a marble table, with office stationaries beside it
Computer Mockup
Prompt: Mockup empty, blank computer screen, on a concrete surface, with plants beside
Tablet Mockup
Prompt: Mockup empty, blank tablet screen, on a table in a coffee shop, with a cup beside, beautiful sunlight
Related Article: 40+Midjourney Prompts to Create Outstanding UI Design
3. Adding a Setting
Next, it is essential to include a setting in the prompt — this provides your audience with a more concrete context.
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: Mockup empty, blank poster frame, sitting on top of a sofa, contemporary style living room
Poster Mockup— Building
Prompt: Mockup empty, blank poster canva, inside a concrete building, beside the elevator
Poster Mockup— Coffee Shop
Prompt: Mockup empty, blank poster on the brick wall in front of a coffee shop,beautiful sunlight
Depending on the different settings, the style can be a whole lot different. To create a more vibrant setting, be sure to add an interior or architectural design style.
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: Mockup empty, a blank white billboard in the middle of the highway with cars passing below
4. Retouch with Materials
To make your mockups look more realistic and professional, it’s always beneficial to incorporate materials like stone or wood, depending on the project you’re working on — be it countertops or background images.
- Ceramics
- Concrete
- Glass
- Leather
- Marble
- Stone
- Wood
Business Card Mockup— Ceramic Table
Prompt: Mockup empty, blank business card, sitting on a ceramic table, minimal and clean, beautiful lighting and shadow
Cushion Mockup— Leather Sofa
Prompt: Mockup empty, blank cushion, sitting on a leather sofa, in a living room
Here is a list of over 70 materials prompts you can use:
🌟 Changing the setting
You can even change the props with Midjourney’s latest “Vary Region” feature
Learn how to switch specific objects with the Midjourney inpainting feature here:
5. Refine with Style
Next, let’s add a bit of touch with a descriptive style to match the branding:
- Classy
- Elegant
- High end
- Luxurious
- Minimal
- Modern
- Mysterious
- Vintage
Photo Frame Mockup— Wooden Table & Minimal and Clean Style
Prompt: Mockup empty, photo frame, on a wooden table, with plants beside, minimal and clean style
Hand Wash Bottle Mockup— Cream Marble Countertop & High End and Classy Style
Prompt: Mockup empty, 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!
Let’s continue!
6. Mock-Up Stage for Products
Sometimes, you just need a mock-up background to stage your product.
You will want to create a mockup stage that will include a shape, atmosphere, color palette and style
Marble Circle Stage Mockup
Prompt: A clear circle, minimal marble stone stage design, soft and dreamy depiction, linear illustration, classy, high-end
Boxes Stage Mockup
Prompt: Few boxes of different sizes, minimal mockup stage design, soft and dreamy depiction, linear illustration, white and beige
7. Add Designer’s Style
Adding names of well-known designers is always a great way in crafting prompts in Midjourney if you like a specific style.
India Mahdavi
India is known as the “Virtuoso of color” and “a possessor of perfect chromatic pitch” architect and designer.
Prompt: A clear circle, minimal mockup stage design, designed by India Mahdavi, vivid ceramics, dusk blue and terracotta and cantaloupe color
8. Anime Style
The latest NIji v5 is amazing if you want to add a fancy touch to the design.
Prompt: A circle, minimal mockup stage design, dreamy pastel color, pink and blue — ar 1:1 — niji 5
Niji is a specific mode in Midjourney for anime. It comes in three styles: Cute, Expressive and Scenic
Check out the list of Niji styles here if you are interested in learning more prompts and tricks for crafting Anime:
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.
Mockup empty, blank [ product ], [ decorating items ] [ background or context ], [ 1- 3 descriptive style], [ color palette ]
Use Case Example: Create A Professional Mockup for Your Product
1. Create a Product Image
First, you will need to prepare a product with transparent background. I am creating a bottle of perfume this time with Midjourney.
Prompt: A realisic perfume bottle, high end, elegant, feminie, floral, on a white background
Refer to this article for a step-to-step guide to creating an image with transparent background.
2. Create a Mockup Background with Midjourney
Next, we will need to create a mockup stage design with Midjourney with this basic format or you can take the prompts above as a reference.
Prompt Structure: A [ shape ], mockup stage design for products, [ 1–3 descriptive style ] [ color palette ]
3. Edit in Photoshop
Once your product and stage images are ready, hop into Photoshop or Illustrator and combine them. You will want to make the brightness or contrast adjustments for a more realistic look.
Here is the final outcome!
Alternative — Blend
Besides using tools to combine the images, I also tried Midjourney’s command — /blend
The /blend command allows you to upload 2–5 images quickly and then looks at the concepts and aesthetics of each image and merges them into a novel new image.
Despite not creating the result I had desired, this command still generated a wonderful mockup! Therefore, I highly recommend you try it to create some unique and extra-special mockups!
I hope you enjoy today’s post.
I am Christie, a multimedia designer and AI enthusiast.😊
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