How to Creatively Use Device Screen Mockups within Divi Layouts

Last Updated on September 16, 2022 by 8 Comments

How to Creatively Use Device Screen Mockups within Divi Layouts
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Using mockups is one of the easiest ways to bring a much needed sense of professionalism to your website. There are plenty of sites out there that offer free mockups that you can adjust to your specific needs; we’ve created a list of some of the best ones out there in this post.

And to help you get started with mockups, we’re going to show you how you can make use of a laptop screen mockup, along with Divi and its best built-in design options, to make your website shine. This tutorial is great if you’re building a portfolio page where you showcase previous work.

Before we dive into the tutorial, let’s take a look at the result we’ll be achieving.

Result on Desktop

Result on Mobile

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Download This Tutorial’s Free Screen Mockup

To help you bring this tutorial to a good end, we’re going to provide you with the mockup that is being used in this tutorial for free. Actually, we’re providing you with two device mockups and several high quality images since the resource we’re (re)sharing is actually from our Design Agency Layout Pack. When you download the image resources below, you can unzip the folder and locate the file called MB-purefront.psd to follow along.

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Change Mockup with Photoshop

Once you’ve downloaded the mockup, you can change it to your needs. Start by opening the file.

Hide Background Layer

Once you’ve opened the file, the first thing you’ll need to do is disable the layer with the background color at the bottom of your layers:

screen mockup

Double Click on the Screen Layer

Next, double-click on the following layer’s icon:

screen mockup

You’ll see a new tab appear that contains the image that appears in your screen mockup.

screen mockup

Drag Your Image to Create a New Tab

Then, drag the image you want to use for your screen to the tabs. You’ll watch a new tab appear that contains this image. The image that you are using must preferably have a width of ‘1440px’ and a height of ‘900px’ to fit the screen perfectly.

screen mockup

screen mockup

Copy Image & Paste in Screen Layer

Next, copy the image and paste it into the screen layer you have opened. You’ll see that, if you’re using the right width and height, the image will fit perfectly and a new layer will be created. However, if your image is larger than expected, you can always adjust it by using CTRL + T (on Windows) or Command + T (Mac) to make the image fit.

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Merge Layers

Once you have added the new image to your screen layer, select both layers and merge them.

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CTRL + S or COMMAND + S

Once the layers are merged, you can go ahead and save the layer by using CTRL + S (on Windows) and Command + S (on Mac).

Save Image for Web

If you, then, return to your mockup, you’ll see that your screen has been changed.

screen mockup

You’re now ready to export the image. To do that, go to File > Export > Save for Web > Save as PNG file.

screen mockup

Add New Section

Now that we’ve gone through the part where we use Photoshop, it’s time to switch over to Divi.

For this tutorial, we’ll only be needing one standard section. Go ahead, add a new page and create a new standard section without any additional settings.

Create Desktop Row

As mentioned before in this post, we’re going to show you how to create a portfolio page with screen mockups that match desktops, tablets and phones. We’ll start with the desktop version, and once you go through this part, you’ll see that creating the mobile version will be a lot easier as we will be reusing most of the desktop’s settings.

Row Settings

Start by adding a new row to your section with two equal columns.

Row Background Color

Open the settings of the row and choose ‘#035372’ as the background color.

screen mockup

Row Background Image

Then, switch over to the background image tab, upload the screen mockup and choose the following settings:

  • Background Image Size: Fit
  • Background Image Position: Center
  • Background Image Repeat: No Repeat
  • Background Image Blend: Normal

screen mockup

Column 2 Background Color

Scroll down the Content tab and use ‘rgba(25,46,58,0.85)’ as the Column 2 Background Color.

screen mockup

Sizing

Then, move on to the Design tab and use the following settings for the Sizing subcategory:

  • Make This Row Fullwidth: Yes
  • Use Custom Gutter Width: Yes
  • Gutter Width: 1

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Spacing

Moving on, add a custom padding of ‘0px’ to the top and bottom.

screen mockup

Visibility

Lastly, disable the row on phone and tablet.

screen mockup

Add Title Text Module

Once you have all the row settings in place, add a first Text Module to the second column of your row.

Text Settings

After having added the text to the Content Box, move on to the Design tab and use the following settings for the Text subcategory:

  • Text Font: Cormorant Unicase
  • Text Font Weight: Bold
  • Text Size: 70px
  • Text Color: #FFFFFF
  • Text Line Height: 1em
  • Text Orientation: Left

screen mockup

screen mockup

Spacing

And use the following custom padding:

  • Top Padding: 150px
  • Bottom Padding: 50px
  • Left Padding: 50px
    screen mockup

Add Description Text Module

Add another Text Module right below the previous one.

Text Settings

Use the following settings for the Text subcategory of this Text Module:

  • Text Font: Actor
  • Text Font Weight: Regular
  • Text Size: 13px
  • Text Color: #ededed
  • Text Line Height: 1.7em
  • Text Orientation: Left

screen mockup

screen mockup

Sizing

Next use a width of ‘67%’ within the Sizing subcategory.

screen mockup

Spacing

Lastly, add a bottom padding of ’30px’ and a left padding of ’50px’.

screen mockup

Add Button Module

The last module we’ll need to add to this row is the Button Module.

Alignment

The first thing you will need to do after adding the Button Module is choosing a left Button Alignment.

screen mockup

Button

Then, move on to the Design tab and use the following settings for the Button subcategory:

  • Use Custom Styles for Button: Yes
  • Button Text Size: 14px
  • Button Text Color: #035372
  • Button Background Color: #FFFFFF
  • Button Border Width: 0px
  • Button Border Radius: 100px
  • Button Letter Spacing: 0px
  • Button Font: Actor
  • Font Weight: Bold
  • Font Style: Uppercase

screen mockup

screen mockup

Spacing

Next, add the following custom margin and padding to the Button Module:

  • Bottom Margin: 150px
  • Left Margin: 50px
  • Top Padding: 10px
  • Right Padding: 30px
  • Bottom Padding: 10px
  • Left Padding: 30px

screen mockup

Box Shadow

Lastly, add the following box shadow to give the button some extra glow:

  • Box Shadow Horizontal Position: 0px
  • Box Shadow Vertical Position: 2px
  • Box Shadow Blur Strength: 41px
  • Box Shadow Spread Strength: 4px
  • Shadow Color: rgba(255,255,255,0.3)
  • Box Shadow Position: Outer Shadow

screen mockup

Clone Row as Many Times as Needed

Once you’ve completed all the steps that are mentioned above, you can go ahead and clone the row as many times as you need. You’ll only have to make some slight modification which we’ll mention below.

Change Row Background Color & Image

The first thing you will need to do is change the screen mockup and background color of your row. For the example that we’re recreating, we’re using ‘#600026’ for the second row and ‘#876700’ for the third row.

screen mockup

Change Column 2 Background Color

The Column 2 Background Color needs to be changed as well. The second row in our example uses ‘rgba(40,0,14,0.85)’ and the third row uses ‘rgba(56,46,0,0.85)’.

screen mockup

Create Mobile Row

Now that we’ve created the desktop version, creating the mobile and tablet version will go a lot quicker.

screen mockup

Clone Desktop Row

Start by cloning the desktop row you’ve created in the previous part of this post.

Remove Row Background

Once you do that, you’ll need to open the row settings and delete the screen mockup in the Background subcategory of the row.

screen mockup

Disable on Desktop

Then, you’ll need to go to the Advanced tab and disable the row on desktop, instead of on tablet and phone.

screen mockup

Add Image Module to First Column

Next, go ahead and add an Image Module to the first column of this row. This Image Module will sort of ‘replace’ the row background image that we used in the desktop version.

screen mockup

Change Title Text Module

Center Text Orientation

Then, open your Text Module and change the Text Orientation to ‘Center’ in the Text subcategory.

screen mockup

Remove Left Padding

And remove the left padding as well.

screen mockup

Change Description Text Module

Center Text Orientation

Moving on, open the second Text Module in your second column and put the Text Orientation to ‘Center’.

screen mockup

Center Module Alignment

Then, open the Sizing subcategory and choose a center Module Alignment.

screen mockup

Remove Left Padding

Lastly, remove the left padding of this Text Module as well.

screen mockup

Change Button Text Module

Center Button Alignment

You will also need to change the Button Alignment of your Button Module into ‘Center’.

screen mockup

Remove Left Margin

And remove the left margin.

screen mockup

Clone Row as Many Times as Needed

Again, you can clone this mobile version as many times as you need and make some small modification to it.

Change Row Background Color

One of those changes is changing the row background color into ‘#600026’ for the second row and ‘#876700’ for the third row in the example.

screen mockup

Change Column 2 Background Color

And change the Column 2 Background Color to ‘rgba(40,0,14,0.85)’ for the second row and ‘rgba(56,46,0,0.85)’ for the third row.

screen mockup

Change Image in Image Module

Lastly, you will also need to change the screen mockups in each one of the new versions that you create. Of course, make sure that these are in line with your desktop version.

screen mockup

Result

Result on Desktop

Result on Mobile

screen mockup

Final Thoughts

In this post, we’ve shown you how you can creatively use screen mockups along with Divi’s design options to create beautiful results. The layout we’ve shown you how to create is ideal for portfolio pages where you showcase previous work to your visitors. If you have any questions or suggestions; make sure you leave a comment in the comment section below.

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8 Comments

  1. Greetings!

    I’d like to know the page load stats using this method in contrast to using javascript to load different page version based upon tablets/phones. With the hidden items (tablet/phone display), they are still being loaded.

    Thank you.

  2. Love your voice and your easy way to communicate.
    Thks for this tutorial.

  3. Great instructor/communicator. Easy to follow. Thank you.

  4. These look lovely. You could also just use a site like placeit.net or smartmockups.com which saves a lot of time photoshopping!

    • Check the links. Just what I need. Thanks.

  5. Cool.

  6. This is another excellent tutorial. Thank you, Donjete and ET, for continuing to provide so many resources for design inspiration!

    As a question/suggestion for a related technique to explore, I’m curious how one might be able to integrate a slider within the laptop screen; that would allow one to highlight multiple images for each project, and have them scroll beautifully within the laptop screen.

    Thanks again so much for all your outstanding work!

  7. So helpful! thank you so much

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