Smart Object - What am I doing wrong?

[Spennysimmo]

Hi 

I am new to this and don't understand what I am doing wrong.  I have downloaded two or three business card mockups in PSD format.  The mockups show round cornered business cards which is what I need.

When I open the PSD in either Photo or Designer I see all the layers including the layer used for the demo content on the mockup.  When I look at that layer the image used has square corners which I presume bleed off the rounded corner layer but the finished mockup displays the card perfectly as a round cornered card.

When I select the smart object layer and replace the existing square cornered image with my square cornered artwork image for the card, it replaces ok in the mockup but with the overlapping square corners.

What am I doing wrong please and what do I need to do for my image to be contained within the round cornered layer?

Thank you for any assistance

[carl123]

1 minute ago, Spennysimmo said:

I have downloaded two or three business card mockups in PSD format

 

Can you upload one of them or are they paid for?

[Spennysimmo]

4 minutes ago, carl123 said:

Can you upload one of them or are they paid for?

No they are free ones at the moment.  I am happy to pay for the right ones and have been looking at Envato Elements.  I just wanted to try out a few free ones to practice with first.  Here is one I have tried with.

 

Business_Card_Mockup_3.psd

[v_kyr]

51 minutes ago, Spennysimmo said:

When I open the PSD in either Photo or Designer I see all the layers including the layer used for the demo content on the mockup. 

Well those Photoshop PSD files aren't parsed in always in the same manner in Affinity, meaning some layers you see then in Affinity doesn't behave the same way as in Photoshop via smart objects here.

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When I look at that layer the image used has square corners which I presume bleed off the rounded corner layer but the finished mockup displays the card perfectly as a round cornered card.

That layer image has transparency, meaning just the circle, lines and text are visable inside the rect area, the rest of the rect is transparent.

58 minutes ago, Spennysimmo said:

When I select the smart object layer and replace the existing square cornered image with my square cornered artwork image for the card, it replaces ok in the mockup but with the overlapping square corners.

Is your square cornered image transparent on it's background? If not make your seperate image background transparent and save that as a PNG file, then place it and arrange/skew/rotate it so it fits on the card layer.

[carl123]

If you use an image which is on a white background it should work and you get rounded corners

That is because, the Vector Smart Object copy 4 Layer has a blend mode of Multiply which is what is cutting out the white corners in the sample business card supplied. But that only works with a white business card.

The mock up also comes with another dark image which if you use that one you have to change the Multiply blend mode to Darken and switch the Light Backgrounds (pixel) Layer off

So, it looks like the mock-up was designed just to produce business cards with white or (a specific) dark background in order to get rounded corners

[v_kyr]

Jip, as @carl123 said, in the "Layer 5" group, the layer "Vector Smart Object copy 4" is as default designed that way.

[Spennysimmo]

OK, thank you both.  I am going to have to hold my hands up and just say I don't understand this.  I think for now I will be better of saving myself hours and using something like placeit.com to create some mockups and then start following some training video tutorials so I start to learn and understand how this all works.

[v_kyr]

5 minutes ago, Spennysimmo said:

I am going to have to hold my hands up and just say I don't understand this.

Maybe you should look at some tutorials about reusing PSD mockups in Affinity and how to create mockups with the Affinity apps. There are also reusable Affinity format mockups on the net.

• Affinity Photo Mockup (commercial bundle)
• Free Mockups for Affinity (video)
• Templates for Product Mock-ups with Affinity Designer & Photo (video)
• Embedded Layers explained - Affinity Photo // Smart Layers, Smart Objects (video)
• Create and use Photoshop like Smart Objects for Mockups in Affinity Photo
• ... and so on ...

[Spennysimmo]

Thank you I will look at these resources.  I did look on Youtube for Smart Object tutorials using the Affinity products and to be honest there weren't too many there.  I'm trying to juggle lots of things so I will try and focus some time on researching what tutorials I can find.

[v_kyr]

Here is an easy one to play around with (a PSD converted to Affinity one).

• Executive Business Card Mockup PSD.afphoto
• Executive Business Card Mockup.afdesign

It might be easier for you to do it in Affinity Photo, since there you can better perspective warp the front and back card images.

• Create your front and back rounded card layout on a transparent background
• place your grouped card layer designs then into the indicated positions
• resize/rescale and warp/rotate your card images to the needed shown example image sizes/orientation, so they fit on top of what is shown there
• reuse the shown FX effects settings, or create/apply your own

[Spennysimmo]

Thank you!  I will take a look at these and try and start learning.

[Spennysimmo]

1 hour ago, v_kyr said:

Here is an easy one to play around with (a PSD converted to Affinity one).

• Executive Business Card Mockup PSD.afphoto
• Executive Business Card Mockup.afdesign

Here it might be easier for you to do it in Affinity Photo, since there you can better perspective warp the front and back card images.

• Create your front and back rounded card layout on a transparent background
• place your grouped card layer designs then into the indicated positions
• resize/rescale and warp/rotate your card images to the needed shown example image sizes/orientation, so they fit on top of what is shown there

I am such a numpty at this.

I have your file, I have my square cornered artwork file/image and I can't even figure out how I can apply rounded corners to it and match what you have done on your card so it fits!

[Spennysimmo]

I created a round cornered rectangle and made my image a child layer.  I don't know if that is the way to do it but it worked! 🙂

[v_kyr]

Yes that's one possibility to do it!