Free Book PSD Mockups, Comic Book PSD Creation Kit + Tutorials

Dear MonsterPost readers, we are happy to greet you this Monday. Do you believe that a good beginning makes a good end? If so, let’s start this week with nice and useful stuff. And what is even more important, the goodies we’ve found for you today are available for free! Would you like to know what they are? We are not going to keep you waiting and just lay all the cards on the table, or, to be more precise, onto the screen of device you are using now.

So, today you will get a wonderful possibility to download some free book PSD mockups, comic book PSD creation kit and learn how to create such things yourself. Yes, we’ve scared up several text and video tutorials for especially curious nerds.

How are mockups usually used?

Artists and designers know that mockups are very helpful in their work. Actually a mockup is a scale or full-size model of a design or device. It can be used for various purposes: teaching, demonstration, design evaluation, promotion and many others. The best feature of the mockup is that it is a prototype, which provides part of system’s functionality. This allows to test the design on the early stage, get feedback from the users and fix all the bugs before they become a problem. Most often mockups are used in software development. They show the end user what the UI will look like avoiding the necessity to build the whole thing. Mockups are real time and effort savers. They can range from very simple hand drawn screen layouts to semi functional user interfaces developed with the help of professional software development tools. The significance of mockups is difficult to overestimate especially when the functions, being simulated demand considerable energy and money inputs.

How can you benefit from free book and comic PSD mockups featured below?

Supposing you’ve drawn a bunch of awesome, artistic works for your customer. How to make your presentation impressive and super realistic? Surely, there are many ways to make a presentation spectacular, but most of them will cost you a penny. Our book mockups are free and easy to apply. Just use the smart layer to drag and drop your masterpieces and enjoy the result. We are sure that your customers will also appreciate the aesthetic side of your presentation. You know, sometimes the titanic work may stay unnoticed due to failed or inexpressive demonstration.

By the way, at the end of our freebies list, you’ll find some effective tutorials that will help you grasp how to create such book and comic mockups yourself. We know that many of our readers like challenges as they lead them to progress, development and raise the level of their professional expertise.

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Square Flyer Mockup

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Elegant Invitation Card Mockup

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Autumn Journey Mockups & Photos Bundle Product Mockup

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Art Book MockUp PSD

This amazing PSD art book mock-up was created by Alexandru Popa. Undoubtedly, the artists will be highly interested in it. How to use this mockup? It’s very simple. Just use the smart layer to drag and drop your drawings and create a decent, realistic presentation for your small and big chef-d'oeuvres.

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Sketchbook Mockup PSD

Greet another work by Alexandru Popa. This time it’s a photo-based sketchbook mockup with fully separated and movable objects and shadows. The fact that PSD uses smart objects allows you easily place your drawings there.

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Photorealistic Magazine Mockup

With this photorealistic, fully-editable PSD magazine mockup you can showcase your magazine spreads in the most impressive manner. All you need to do is drag and drop your design inside the PSB file and the smart objects will finish the job for you. Want more details? Search for them in full preview.

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Tri Fold Brochure Mockup

Need to showcase your tri fold brochure design the way it looks in real life? No problem, use this PSD mockup. As usual it works well with smart objects, so drag and drop your designs and enjoy the result.

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Free Book Mockup – Square Format

Here is a free Photoshop action to create book/ebook cover. Click the book title or the image below to get to the download page and know more about the item.

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Free PSD Open Book Mockup Template

This fully layered PSD file lets you easily edit the background, page shadow, effects and cover to meet your particular requirements.

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Photorealistic Sketchbook Mockups PSDs

Here are 4 extremely user-friendly sketchbook mockup PSDs for presentation of your sketches and drawings. Going to use these mockups? Then, simply open the file in Photoshop, double-click on the Smart Object, and paste your image – yes, it's that easy.

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Printable Comic Strip Layouts

Printable Comic Strip Layouts allow you to print free comic strip templates and choose from 34 comic layouts that vary from equally sized panels with up to 20 panels to varied sized panels. The files are created by Donna Young of donnayoung.org, home to thousands of high quality free printable files.

These files will enable you to print all the stuff you need to create a comic. We hope they will be helpful for your creative efforts. If you want to know more about the kit, please click the image.

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And now we offer you a nice bonus in the form of free tutorials that will teach you create books or comic themed designs and then code it.

The sequel comes first:

Create a Comic Book Themed Web Design, Photoshop to HTML + CSS (Part 1)

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Create a Comic Book Themed Web Design, Photoshop to HTML + CSS (Part 2)

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And video ones:

Create a comic book page in Photoshop using people / face brushes

The tutorial uses brushes from the graphicxtras set pack (173 people brushes). This tutorial will give you the guidelines on how to build the panels along with selections and effects. Besides, you’ll learn how to apply the brush strokes as well combine them with CS6 shapes 'talk balloons' and then use various effects.

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Photoshop Magazine Mockup Tutorial

This tutorial will become your personal visual guide through creating your own magazine mock up in Photoshop using smart object, smart filters and some lighting techniques. This mock up allows you to apply any 8.5 x 11 designs to your magazine with the click of a button, which is then applied to the picture with the correct angles, blur and lighting automatically!

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How to Draw a Game Comic in Photoshop

In this tutorial you’ll see the process of creation the Metal Drift game promo comic. It’s an FPS vehicular combat game, but it doesn’t have a crucial significance as what we are looking here is the technique.

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Comic Book Creation, Drawing & Coloring - the Secret of the 5 Powers

A great tutorial, showcasing the process of comic creation (its drawing and coloring). Just view it, the result is amazing.

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Photoshop Tutorial l Create Your Own Comic Book

The author of the tutorial kindly shares the way he creates a comic book. You can view the impressive result of his efforts here: http://fav.me/d5rk42u.

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If you want to make the author of this entry shine, please drop a line of kind feedback into the comment section. You can write about your experience with these mockups and tutorials. Please state if you consider them useful for your current work or future career. Maybe you have some more free book or comic PSD mockups that you would like to share with the community. The latter is also welcome.