Upscayl & Canva Mock Ups + any other advice please

Apologies if I've not got to this yet, I've been trying to work through the questions asked in here working through a couple pages per day to see what's already been asked.

I've just got a couple to ask please.

I just used Upscayl and upscaled a picture I took on an iPhone - I set it to standard 4x, it took around 18 mins. When it had competed, I could see it had gone from 4284x5712 to around 17000x22000. A fair few of my images at the moment are pictures I've taken, before I start making Ai ones. Was the amount of pixels I already had enough to make A0 without the Upscayl in this case? I'll see if I can check it before putting them through the software if so, or would it still have needed to be upscaled for A0?
I've built a filing system, got a basic excel tracker and given the files in my system my SKU names, at the moment they're basic and just DD-0001, as an example, next step will be taking the pictures and making the mock ups. To save time I was going to start off using some form of a bulk mock up and get to grips with it from the start. I'm using Canva, happy to pay for it if needed and in Canva pro. I've tried having a look at some YouTube videos - what I'm looking for is to create almost a mock up template, so that I just select a new piece of art for a new listing and it snaps into all the mockups in that template in one go, rinse and repeat - is that doable? Anyone use anything else that comes close to being that easy and uses Canva for creating their art?

All help much appreciated - hoping to try and get a couple posters up by the weekend, just trying to take my time putting the right things in place as I go, to avoid issues later on down the line.

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