Wall art mockup generator: frame and poster mockups in a room

A picture of your artwork framed on a wall in a drawn room, ready to use as a listing photo. You choose the frame size (5 x 7 in, 8 x 10 in, 8.5 x 11 in, 11 x 14 in, 12 x 16 in, 12 x 18 in, 16 x 20 in, 18 x 24 in, 20 x 30 in, 24 x 36 in, 30 x 40 in, A5, A4, A3, A2, A1 or your own, 4 to 48 inches a side), the frame colour and moulding, the mat, the room (living room with a sofa, hallway console, entryway bench), the wall colour, the camera (front-on, three-quarter from either side, low and wide, or a close-up of the frame corner), day or night, and whether there is glass. It saves a JPG or PNG at 2,000 x 2,000 px, 2,700 x 2,025 px, 3,000 x 3,000 px, with no watermark.

No. The room is drawn by code in your browser: a wall, a floor, a window, a sofa or a console or a bench, and your picture in a frame with a real moulding profile, a bevelled mat and (if you leave it on) glass. It is not a photograph and the pictures are not taken from stock photos. Brightness and wall colour are your choices; they are not a prediction of how the print will look in a buyer's room, and the page cannot know that. At night a warm picture light over the frame is on so the print can still be read: in the front-on, three-quarter and low views it stays at least 60 percent as bright as in the day view. The close-up of the frame corner is darker on the largest frames (42 to 50 percent of the day view on a 30 by 40 inch frame when we measured it).

Yes, in the drawing. One unit in the room is one inch: the sofa is 80 inches wide, and a 16 x 20 inch frame is 16 x 20 inches next to it. The size you choose is the frame's opening, what a print or a mat window sits in, which is how frames are sold; the moulding adds its own width all round, and the page shows the outside size too. A sizes are the paper sizes in inches. It cannot tell you whether a frame sold under that name is exactly that size.

The 3-D room is drawn by your device's graphics chip with a program (a shader) that the chip has to prepare before it can draw anything. That takes from a few seconds to about 40 seconds the first time, once for each room. While it prepares, a quick 2-D view shows, and the page tells you how long it expects to take (it remembers how long it took on your device last time). When the 3-D room is ready it takes over and the label on the picture changes. Your browser may keep the prepared program, so a later visit is usually quicker. On the Windows laptop this was built on (Intel Iris Xe graphics) the preparation took about 20 to 40 seconds the first time, depending on the room; yours will differ.

A download you press while it prepares is held and made in the 3-D room as soon as it is ready, or you can choose the 2-D room instead.

The page says so, under the picture, in plain words. The 3-D room is used when the browser can draw with WebGL 2 on a graphics chip and the chip is fast enough: the page gives up on a program that has not been prepared in 90 seconds. When it is not, the 2-D room draws the picture instead: it is a flat drawn wall with simpler furniture, front-on and the corner close-up only (the three-quarter and low views need the 3-D room, and are turned off). Software-only graphics and a graphics chip that was stopped by the browser mid-way also end in the 2-D room, and the page says which. Nothing is uploaded either way.

It opens, and the 2-D room works. The 3-D room has not been tried on a real phone while this was built, so on a phone or tablet it starts only when you press "Try the 3-D room on this device"; if the phone's graphics stop it, the page goes back to the 2-D room. The 3000 px size is not offered on a phone.

2,000 x 2,000 px, 2,700 x 2,025 px, 3,000 x 3,000 px. Etsy's help page on listing photos recommends listing photos at least 2000 pixels wide and high, which is the first size. The 4:3 size suits a landscape first photo and the 3000 px size gives room to crop. JPG is much smaller (about 0.2 to 0.7 MB at 2000 px in our tests); PNG is lossless and roughly ten times larger. Check Etsy's page before you list: its advice can change.

It fills the frame's visible window (inside the mat, or the whole opening without a mat) and is never stretched: a picture that is a different shape from the window is cropped on one side, and two sliders move the crop. "Match the picture" turns the frame to portrait or landscape to suit the picture.

No. The picture is opened in your browser and drawn on your own device, by your graphics chip or your processor, and the file is saved from memory on your device. Nothing about it is sent anywhere.

One mockup at a time, with every choice above, is free. With Pro you can tick several sizes, frame colours, rooms, cameras and day or night, drop up to 20 pictures, and get every combination in one ZIP with a report of what was made and which renderer made it. One ZIP holds up to 60 mockups at 2000 px JPG, fewer for PNG and larger sizes; the page counts them before you start and asks you to tick fewer rather than leaving any out. A free visit offers one free batch of up to 5 pictures on a device.

It does not photograph a room or use stock photos, so a room never looks like a particular real one. It has one picture in one frame (no gallery walls or sets of frames in one image), no PSD files and no print-ready files: for print sizes use the Print size pack. It cannot tell what a buyer's wall looks like. It does not check your right to sell the picture, and it does not promise that any marketplace accepts an image: check that marketplace's rules on mockups.

Yes. Everything Makerfern makes is yours to use and sell, free or Pro, as long as you have the right to use what you start from: your own photos and drawings, or pictures whose license allows it; somebody else's art or characters only with their permission. Makerfern adds no watermark and takes no rights in your file. One Pro covers every tool: there is no per-tool plan.