Adobe Illustrator’s new tool makes hi-fi product mock-ups as easy as drag and drop

Get your keyboards ready: New Photoshop and Illustrator capabilities are coming your way soon.

One written tutorial published by Adobe about making mock-up images of products in Photoshop is more than 900 words long. A new update to Adobe Illustrator now makes the task as easy as drag and drop.

It’s just one of the updates to Photoshop and Illustrator that Adobe announced recently. Illustrator’s Mockup tool, now available in beta, gives designers the ability to place and move logos and graphics onto images of products like cans or product packaging. The tool automatically detects details of a mock-up product image, like the the lip of a can or the wrinkles on a shirt, then adapts the logo or graphics accordingly.