This free pillow mockup is a pack of three square cushion PSD scenes at 5000 × 5000 px, where your print goes onto the pillow through a smart object. It’s free for personal and commercial work, with a credit to MockupFree.co.
Pillows are one of the gifts people actually order in November. If you sell print-on-demand cushions or pitch a textile pattern to a client, this is the quickest way to show the design on something soft and believable instead of a flat square.
What’s in the free pillow mockup PSD
Three templates, all built around the same medium square pillow with a small cloth tag sewn into one seam:
- a single pillow from one angle,
- a single pillow from another angle,
- a pair side by side, which is the one I’d use for a “front and back” or “two colourways” listing.
The creator lists the files as high-resolution 5000 × 5000 px PSDs, editable via smart objects. You can change the pillow colour, put a logo or text on the tag, and add text or images to the backdrop. The folds and the soft shadow under the pillow are baked in, so a busy pattern still bends where the fabric bends. That’s the bit cheap pillow mockups get wrong.
How to put your design on the pillow
Open the PSD in Adobe Photoshop, double-click the design smart object, paste your artwork and save. The pillow updates with the folds applied.
No Photoshop yet? Adobe's Black Friday sale runs until 27 November: Creative Cloud Pro, with Photoshop, is discounted for new subscribers. Students get the biggest cut.
Two things that save time. Keep about 8–10% of empty margin around your artwork, because the seam eats the outer edge and a logo that touches it looks cropped. And if you sell the same print in several colours, change the pillow colour layer rather than re-exporting the art; it’s faster and the shading stays consistent across the set.
The tag is small. Use a one-colour mark or initials there, not a full wordmark.
Good for
Etsy and Shopify listings for custom cushions, Christmas and housewarming gift collections, surface-pattern portfolios, and home-decor brand pitches. The plain white pillow in the pair scene works nicely as a neutral “base” next to your printed one. Buyers read the scale straight away.
Building a gift-season shop? The free mug mockups and candle mockup templates pair well with this one, so the whole range looks shot in one style. There’s also an older free pillow PSD with a different, simpler scene.
Download the free pillow mockup
The file is hosted on MockupFree.co. The download starts directly from their page, no account needed. The licence allows personal and commercial use with attribution, so add a credit to MockupFree.co wherever you publish the result.
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