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Writer's picture은사시 Arisu Chris

Creating your own planner using planner mockup

Have you heard about the planner mockup? If you are a planner creator, you will love to create a realistic boutique planner cover or main dashboard. I am excited to share my secret for making a beautiful planner cover and main dashboard with Photoshop.

As you know, I have been creating dashboard-style digital planners for a while. I use many design tools.

And I found the best tools are Photoshop, Procreate, and Keynote for my digital planner collections. It depends on your preference, but these apps work for me well.

Before, I posted “HOW TO USE PRE-MADE DASHBOARD TEMPLATE” to explain the realistic dashboard-style digital planner using Keynote and Procreate apps.

This Year, I upgrade my method to Photoshop to enhance the image quality and more flexible customization with all elements. So the products are more stand out from the crowds on the market.


pre-made dashboard kits

If you prefer to use the keynote to make your own digital planner, our pre-made Keynote dashboard template is greater. It can help your smooth the process to create a realistic dashboard digital planner.

However, do you want to learn more about Photoshop skills? Creating your planner with planner cover mockup and dashboard scene creation can help you. Here is how to use our planner cover mockups and dashboard scene creation template using Photoshop. It is more like an advanced level for digital planner creators. But I create the PSD files more user-friendly with instructions, even beginners can follow easily. So you can just add their own image to the template to complete their own digital planner products.

Let’s dive in

Planner Cover Mockup


Planner cover mockup Photoshop templates

Planner cover mockup Photoshop templates

I assume you already have your master template for your digital planner products. If you are new to creating digital planner products with Keynote, That’s fine! I have many digital planner templates on our shop, so you can learn how to make your digital planner product to sell, along with tutorial posts.

Now, you want more flexible customized planner covers to make more variety of products. It can be hard to find the right image to match your brand color. That’s why the planner cover mockup templates are useful.

Using Planner cover mockup template

Using a planner cover mockup template to create a digital planner cover can have several benefits, including:

  1. Professionalism: A planner cover mockup template can provide a professional look to your digital planner cover. It can make your cover look more polished and well-designed, which can help attract more customers.

  2. Time-saving: Creating a planner cover from scratch can be time-consuming. Using a mockup template can save you time by providing a pre-made template that you can customize to fit your needs.

  3. Customization: With a planner cover mockup template, you can easily customize the cover design to fit your brand or personal style. You can change the colors, fonts, and graphics to match your preferences.

  4. Realistic looking: A mockup file can provide a realistic preview of what your digital planner cover will look like. This can help you visualize the final product and make any necessary adjustments before publishing.

  5. Cost-effective: Purchasing a planner cover mockup file can be more cost-effective than hiring a graphic designer to create a custom cover from scratch. Mockup files are typically much cheaper than custom design services.

Overall, using a planner cover mockup template can save you time and money while providing a professional and customizable design for your digital planner cover.

For our planner mockup template, I’ve created one of the signature planner covers and prepared a textured cover. You’ll have your graphic or image in the green color code layer to make your own planner cover.  Also, you can be able to play around with cover color combinations and add your text.

Planner Cover inside -front view and open view.


planner mockup open view with textured page spreads

planner mockup open view with textured page spreads

The Planner cover mockup template has a front cover, inside front page view, planner pockets, and an open view with a page spread as groups. All in one PSD file, you can toggle eye turn off or on to export individual PNG files. So once you designed all the planner elements for your digital planner, export and add to your master planner template in Keynote.

One more cool thing about this planner mockup template for digital planners is that you can make the spreads you want, lined, graphed, or dotted. It comes with a blank page so that you can make just a dotted page or create a different layout for each of your sections. Totally up to you.

If you want page layouts, please visit our Creator Club and join! you can get a monthly graphic magazine with downloadable elements every month. Also, you will get access to the member resource vault.

Design your main dashboard in your planner

Everyone loves flat-lay images to stand out their products from the crowd. I love it too. So I was wondering if I can have a beautiful planner main dashboard on my iPad and I can customize what I want. That’s why I started creating dashboard scene creation templates. So I can have my own desk where my planner, notebook, journals, and stickers are on my main dashboard planner. Is that cool?

You may ask what exactly dashboard scene creation is.


Dashboard scene creation template

Dashboard scene creation template

Scene creation template

A dashboard scene creation template is a pre-designed layout or framework that provides a starting point for creating a dashboard scene. Flatlay is a type of photography or visual design that involves arranging and photographing objects from above, often on a flat surface such as a tabletop.

This template typically includes elements such as the background surface, lighting, objects or props to be included in the scene, and the arrangement of those objects on the surface. These templates can be customized and adapted to suit the specific needs of a project or brand style. They can help to streamline the creative process, as creators do not need to start from scratch every time they design a new flat-lay scene. Instead, they can use the template as a starting point and modify it to fit their vision.

In addition to saving time and effort, scene creation templates can also help to ensure consistency in the visual style and design of products. By using a template, creators can ensure that the scenes in their project are visually cohesive and fit together seamlessly.

Overall, a scene creation template is a useful tool for creating high-quality, visually appealing scenes in photography, graphic design, or other visual products.

Our dashboard scene creation templates are designed for digital planner creators who want to create a beautiful scene planner dashboard or product listing image. You can add or move elements whatever you like to create a unique main dashboard of your digital planner or product listing.

Putting together your master planner template in Keynote


Editable Content Creator Digital planner Keynote template kit

Editable Content Creator Digital planner Keynote template kit

Our Editable Content planner template kits have fully linked keynote templates and Photoshop templates for planner cover mockups, scene creation, smart objects elements template

When you get these template kits, you can see the full linked content creator planner keynote template. It’ll make putting together your master template much easier and faster.

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