How to make a hoodie mockup that fits the real print

Where a print can go on each style

The print areas below are what Drapeshot offers for each style. Pick the one that matches the product you list in your shop or your printer's spec sheet.

Make a hoodie mockup, step by step

1. Go to the scene wall and filter by Hoodie, Zip hoodie or Sweatshirt.
2. Drop your design in. A transparent PNG works best. It is scaled to fit the print area and sits at the top of it, centred side to side, the way a printer would place it.
3. Pick a garment colour. Charcoal, washed black, navy, forest green and maroon are all there, and you can set your own colour if your blank comes in something else.
4. Open a scene and choose the print area. On a pullover the front area sits above the pocket, so tall artwork gets scaled down to fit.
5. Drag or use the sliders to set size and position, then download the mockup.

Front and back sets

A lot of hoodie designs are a small chest mark on the front and a big piece on the back. Front view scenes only offer front print areas and back view scenes only offer back ones, so the photo always matches the print.

The print area you choose is remembered per product. Pick left chest on a front scene and download the front views you want first. Then filter the wall by Back, open a back scene, pick full back and download those. If the chest mark is a different file from the back art, duplicate the project and swap the design in the copy.

Make heavy fabric read right

• Fleece soaks up fine detail. If your design has hairline strokes, look at it on a dark hoodie at full size in the editor before you commit.
• A one ink look like Stencil or Line art is closer to how most hoodies are actually screen printed. Original keeps every colour, which suits direct to garment or DTF.
• Distressed and Grain give a worn, vintage feel that suits college style and band designs.
• Keep the print smaller than you think on a zip hoodie. A 4 inch chest mark is the norm, and the zip leaves no room for a centred front print.

Downloads and print files

Every mockup downloads as a JPG at the shape of the original photo. Free files are 2,000 pixels on the long edge with a watermark, and Pro files are 4,000 pixels and clean.

Print file gives you the design alone at the size it prints, in the look and ink colours you chose. Read the print file guide for how the pixel size is worked out.