The Ultimate Bleeds and Crop Marks Video for Graphic Designers-Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop

Everything you ever wanted to know about bleeds and crop marks, including how to create them in Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop!

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[randy]

This is the #1 thing people that make ads have no idea is critically important. Great job!

[AliAli-qhiv]

It's only today I finish watching video🤭
Thank you so much

[maplemae]

Great information! I really appreciate that you went through the three softwares. I have a much better understanding now, Thanks!😃

[raajaedge]

Great information! I really appreciate thanks Anne

[raajaedge]

This is raaja edge from india valuable info for designers thanks very much very useful video

[miketheprintman]

Thanks for another great video Ann! My only critique as a pre-press graphic designer would be to offset those crop marks to .125". The default setting is fine about 99.9% of the time, but occasionally there is a small shift in the print on the press side and if the crop marks are too close to the artwork they may show when cut. Always best to error on the side of caution and offset to a full 1/8". Nevertheless, another awesome video!

[itzu]

FANTASTIC VIDEO!!! VERY COMPREHENSIVE FOR ME. LOVE IT

[robbinghudd]

Totally perplexed how American designers can use imperial measurements, e.g: 0.25", 0.75" rather than millimetres. Sounds like a foreign language! Glad I'm working in Europe.

[earningwithetsy]

If I save a design with crop marks & bleed but then print on 5x7” paper, will the crop marks be cut out automatically from the print?

[juphillereycadion]

Hi, mine has just tiny bleed marks after saving to pdf. How do you save it with that big or more visible bleed marks?

[tsvetanaangelova]

You said nothing about Trim?
What is ArtBox?

Can you make a video on how to check TrimBox is true on all pages in book from PDF document. This is important when the pages input in an Imposition Software - Kodak Preps.

Thank you very much!

[edmondopowell]

what if you only want to lap on one side like vinyl sheet on vehicles, is the fastest way just to bleed one side by how much you want to lap it by and copy it to the next sheet

[artistvivek]

The T-shirt color of the most popular.
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[stuartfreedman]

Why have you offset the cropmarks less than the bleed value? Doesn't matter here, but if you have bleed all around it's just a little dangerous.