I know it's a 2013 video, I was wondering if there is an option to simply add crop marks on the pdf windows in 2 seconds like I do in illustrator. The photoshop pfd option interface has way less options than illustrator I noticed (I don't usually save pdf in photoshop actually)
Those that have such relaxed and considered communication skills should be recognised! Is there the equivalent of an Oscar for these things? If so, start writing your acceptance speech! :)
Note for Mac users: if you are a casual Photoshop user, you might want to look at Affinity Photo. affinity.serif.com/en-gb/photo/ This is a £30 app that does pretty much most of what you can do in Photoshop along with a few more things! Notably, exporting to PDF has an option to include printer's bleed, crop and other marks. Adobe - why so late to the party?
It seems to me it defeats the purpose of a bleed to have the black lines at the corners in the bleed area. They will show if the cutting of the paper runs into that area. The guides need to be outside the image. A modified method putting the crop lines outside the image (making canvas larger to accomodate) works though.
+Christopher Garman Bleed is an area that allows for a degree of paper movement on the printer. There is a section in the video where the 'inside' of the crop marks is removed, so they don't appear directly at the edges. Increasing the canvas size was shown before any crop marks are added.
Thank you so much for your calm, clear waffle-less step-by-step guide. If only all contributors did things in the way you have - well, we'd all get more done! You are a star!!
Awesome tut Stuart, doing artwork and printers just who requested 3mm bled and flattened PDFs...tried this on my PC Ps cc and was only able to do vertical lines only..strange! Just bought MB pro with cs 6 and worked perfectly any ideas pls. Steve
Thanks Stuart. Photoshop Elements 12 lacks the Single Row Marquee Tool, so one has to go through awful contortions, but the general method still works.
I struggle as a hobbyist with Photoshop CS6. I believe most of us do. I watch and repeat these You Tube videos step by step and my system rarely behaves the same or shows the same menus/commands as those of the instructors. In this case Stuart it was almost the same but went astray along the way into the saving technique. Otherwise your presentation was well done and helpful.
+Craig MacMullen Thanks Craig. Glad you figured out what changes you needed to make in your save steps. Incidentally, don't know if you are on a Mac or PC, but I've just added a public comment for Mac users.
Thank you so much for posting this! I know I cannot print color accurate images with Illustrator and InDesign (I deal with artists' works on cards and they expect the exact same colors throughout their work), so I needed to figure out how to add crop marks for my printer through Photoshop. You just saved my life! THANK YOU!!!
Hey Stuart really appreciate your reply, yeah a bit strange but managed to just go inside the marked which sorted this one. I'll give your suggestion a go in future thanks againSteve
Fantastic video. I always refer to this when I have to crop a wedding invitation design for printers. Any advice on how to make say a 4X6 invitation with rounded corners? I have that request and no idea how to do that. LOL! But, this has been helpful every time as my go to reminder on the process. Thanks a million!
+Kristen Betz Thanks Kristen, glad this is a useful resource. When it comes to creating artwork for print that will use a die cut with rounded corners, you don't need to specify this in the file for the printer. They will possibly give you a couple of choices for corner radius that they supply. Using this information (let's say 4mm rounded corners) you can create a shape layer to use as a clipping mask. Select the rounded rectangle shape and set the border radius to 4mm and draw it using your guides as the boundaries. Put this at the top of your layer stack to use as a clipping mask, or make a selection from it to use as a layer mask on your background layer. This will only be for a guide for you and should not be used for the final output file.
Great video Stuart, thank you! I managed to do everything up to 4:05 but now I cannot choose the "stroke" option, it's grey (unclickable haha) so what do I do?
Does deselecting the "keep layers" box when saving as a PDF flatten/rasterize any active fonts/text in Photoshop? I would rather always have active fonts printed at maximum resolution and I always figured if I turned off "keep layers" it would flatten my text and convert it to raster rather than converting it to vector shapes like in Illustrator. Anyone know how this works? Thanks.
Deselecting the Keep Layers option is the same as flattening. If you have the right image size for your print job, vector is not so much of an issue. Make sure the Compression of the PDF is bicubic downsampling to 300ppi and the image quality is set to maximum.
Thanks Stuart. I guess it was always my impression that keeping text in vector format would allow for better print quality than just printing in 300dpi for example. I had read before that all raster imagery will print at 300dpi if that's the intended output, but fonts and/or vector elements would print at the printer's unlimited resolution. This never made sense to me though. When I send a business card design to print for example, I keep everything in vector and output as a PDF from Illustrator. In this case, I don't set any resolution if there are no photos in my design. I've always assumed that in this situation the printer would print at their highest resolution, though what probably happens is they flatten the design and print at 300 resolution. Anyway... thank you for the reply.
Hi Stuart! Thanks for the great tip. Is there a preset value for the bleed size? I'm working on a 125x95cm project, 3mm on each side looks like nothing. Thanks!
I used 3mm as a standard print bleed. Some printers ask for 5mm so you can change it accordingly. Even at your file size, 3mm should still be enough. It is not about making your document larger, rather it is about ensuring your images print right off the edge of your documents.
This doesnt make any sense. when us select the crop marks to delete them like that you dont measure what you delete u dont know the length of your bleed after print
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I know it's a 2013 video, I was wondering if there is an option to simply add crop marks on the pdf windows in 2 seconds like I do in illustrator. The photoshop pfd option interface has way less options than illustrator I noticed (I don't usually save pdf in photoshop actually)
This really helped me out today when I had to send artwork to a customers printers
Awesome method, I'd never seen it before! Thank you so much for sharing it!
Those that have such relaxed and considered communication skills should be recognised! Is there the equivalent of an Oscar for these things? If so, start writing your acceptance speech! :)
What is the lines won’t mark, I’m clicking but it won’t make the markings after setting the lines from the rulers?
Thank You. Big help for last minute printing.
Thank you
You are welcome. Glad this was helpful.
Thank you!
You sound like Chandler (Matthew Perry) from Friends or I am watching Firends too much. Thanks for the tut.
Manpreet Bhattee Ha! Ha! Glad you enjoyed the video.
Note for Mac users: if you are a casual Photoshop user, you might want to look at Affinity Photo. affinity.serif.com/en-gb/photo/ This is a £30 app that does pretty much most of what you can do in Photoshop along with a few more things!
Notably, exporting to PDF has an option to include printer's bleed, crop and other marks.
Adobe - why so late to the party?
It seems to me it defeats the purpose of a bleed to have the black lines at the corners in the bleed area. They will show if the cutting of the paper runs into that area. The guides need to be outside the image. A modified method putting the crop lines outside the image (making canvas larger to accomodate) works though.
+Christopher Garman Bleed is an area that allows for a degree of paper movement on the printer. There is a section in the video where the 'inside' of the crop marks is removed, so they don't appear directly at the edges. Increasing the canvas size was shown before any crop marks are added.
Thank you so much for your calm, clear waffle-less step-by-step guide. If only all contributors did things in the way you have - well, we'd all get more done! You are a star!!
Kevin - I feel fully-flattered! Thank you for feedback that is worthy of use as a testimonial!
Great Tutorial thanks.
Great video, very helpful !
Awesome tut Stuart, doing artwork and printers just who requested 3mm bled and flattened PDFs...tried this on my PC Ps cc and was only able to do vertical lines only..strange! Just bought MB pro with cs 6 and worked perfectly any ideas pls. Steve
Very good - Thanks...
Thanks Stuart, seems like an awfully long process though... Adobe need to make this much simpler...
Cheers, think I'll try with blank art board next time, because on this project it a bit of an after thought. Thanks again your help.Steve
Brilliant and clear explanation, worked with my old CS3 version. Thank You.
Thanks Stuart. Photoshop Elements 12 lacks the Single Row Marquee Tool, so one has to go through awful contortions, but the general method still works.
Thanks so very much for your video. Thanks for taking the time to explain step by step. This helped me our a lot!! Truly appreciate you!! God Bless
Stuart, you have saved my life!! well not literally but the solution was perfect. A great video thanks. Rob
Thank you. It is really simple to follow through your steps at your pace and guidance!
Very helpful. Seems obvious now, but I was going about this in a very inefficient way. Thank you for this.
You are welcome. Thanks for the feedback.
Stuart Haiz Amazing Vid Thanks so much! much easier to follow than anything else I have read!
Stuart, thank you. Clear, concise and just what I needed. Much appreciated.
A very important adjustment which most designers wish to skip. :P
Thank you! This was very useful. Your instructions are clear and efficient.
Extremely useful thanks, the print room department at our college now like me a lot more.
I struggle as a hobbyist with Photoshop CS6. I believe most of us do. I watch and repeat these You Tube videos step by step and my system rarely behaves the same or shows the same menus/commands as those of the instructors. In this case Stuart it was almost the same but went astray along the way into the saving technique. Otherwise your presentation was well done and helpful.
+Craig MacMullen Thanks Craig. Glad you figured out what changes you needed to make in your save steps. Incidentally, don't know if you are on a Mac or PC, but I've just added a public comment for Mac users.
Nice quick way to add crop marks in Photoshop. ty
thank you very much, very well explained. Good work!
Thank you so much for posting this! I know I cannot print color accurate images with Illustrator and InDesign (I deal with artists' works on cards and they expect the exact same colors throughout their work), so I needed to figure out how to add crop marks for my printer through Photoshop. You just saved my life! THANK YOU!!!
You are welcome. Glad to be of help.
Thank you, Im new at the crop stuff in PS so this was helpful
a very clear and easy to follow tutorial for this casual photoshop user Thx
Awesome. Thanks so much - a tremendous help.
What short key do you use to resize your image? On windows? Thank you
Thank you!! I usually make my crop marks manually but they were so crude compared to this. This is perfect!
Thanks for this video,very clear instructions.
Hey Stuart really appreciate your reply, yeah a bit strange but managed to just go inside the marked which sorted this one. I'll give your suggestion a go in future thanks againSteve
No problem. Glad you found a workaround.
Is there one for PC? My software looks nothing like this.
Thank You very much! Very helpful
Thank you for this video! It was exactly what I needed and it was so easy to do.
Fantastic video. I always refer to this when I have to crop a wedding invitation design for printers. Any advice on how to make say a 4X6 invitation with rounded corners? I have that request and no idea how to do that. LOL! But, this has been helpful every time as my go to reminder on the process. Thanks a million!
+Kristen Betz Thanks Kristen, glad this is a useful resource.
When it comes to creating artwork for print that will use a die cut with rounded corners, you don't need to specify this in the file for the printer. They will possibly give you a couple of choices for corner radius that they supply.
Using this information (let's say 4mm rounded corners) you can create a shape layer to use as a clipping mask. Select the rounded rectangle shape and set the border radius to 4mm and draw it using your guides as the boundaries. Put this at the top of your layer stack to use as a clipping mask, or make a selection from it to use as a layer mask on your background layer. This will only be for a guide for you and should not be used for the final output file.
This really is a superb tutorial. Thank you, it was completely idiot proof!
Thanks Stuart huge help. Much appreciated
Really helpful. Perfect explanation - thank you! :)
Thank you Stuart. Perfect lesson!
Great video Stuart, thank you! I managed to do everything up to 4:05 but now I cannot choose the "stroke" option, it's grey (unclickable haha) so what do I do?
Hi Telatit, glad you like the video. If you are seeing the stroke option as unavailable, check to see you have made and have an active selection.
Make sure to add "new layer" :)
Cheers Stuart. Nice and Easy!
Very helpful, thanks
Saved! Thank you. I was doing a quick and dirty ad and this tutorial really saved the day for me. MUCH easier than trying to draw tiny crop lines...
Excellent! Glad it helped.
Thank you. That gave me exactly what I needed!
lifesaver - thank you!
Thank you that was very helpful
Thank you!!! Very thorough video, clear and concise, life saver!
EXTREMELY helpful. Thank you!
Great tutorial--much appreciated!
Thanks for the simple method!
Thank you so much - this was sooooo helpful!
Thanks dude, very helpful
perfect tutorial, man! thx a lot!
Does deselecting the "keep layers" box when saving as a PDF flatten/rasterize any active fonts/text in Photoshop? I would rather always have active fonts printed at maximum resolution and I always figured if I turned off "keep layers" it would flatten my text and convert it to raster rather than converting it to vector shapes like in Illustrator. Anyone know how this works? Thanks.
Deselecting the Keep Layers option is the same as flattening. If you have the right image size for your print job, vector is not so much of an issue. Make sure the Compression of the PDF is bicubic downsampling to 300ppi and the image quality is set to maximum.
Thanks Stuart. I guess it was always my impression that keeping text in vector format would allow for better print quality than just printing in 300dpi for example. I had read before that all raster imagery will print at 300dpi if that's the intended output, but fonts and/or vector elements would print at the printer's unlimited resolution. This never made sense to me though.
When I send a business card design to print for example, I keep everything in vector and output as a PDF from Illustrator. In this case, I don't set any resolution if there are no photos in my design. I've always assumed that in this situation the printer would print at their highest resolution, though what probably happens is they flatten the design and print at 300 resolution. Anyway... thank you for the reply.
After watching countless tutorials, yours is the first one that made sense to me and now my artwork has crop marks! Thanks so much!
Thanks Jocelyn. Glad it was helpful.
Hi! Great video. I was wondering if you could share with me how one can undo an embedded trimline?
If by embedded you mean crop marks that are on an image, your best bet is to clone over the marks in the image.
Great tutorial, thanks! :)
Thanks for letting me know it was helpful.
+Stuart Haiz what is the windows equivalent of cmd ; to hide the lines PLSPLS it is urgent
+coolu32 ctrl
+Stuart Haiz I meant cmd + ; (comand and semicolon) Sry
+Stuart Haiz To remove the guides at 3:59
Hi Stuart! Thanks for the great tip. Is there a preset value for the bleed size? I'm working on a 125x95cm project, 3mm on each side looks like nothing.
Thanks!
I used 3mm as a standard print bleed. Some printers ask for 5mm so you can change it accordingly. Even at your file size, 3mm should still be enough. It is not about making your document larger, rather it is about ensuring your images print right off the edge of your documents.
Oh that makes sense! :-)
Thankyou that was easy to follow.
Thanks - very helpful!
Thank you so much!u saved my day :)
Great help, thank you!
Thank you. Great tutorial
Thank you so much Stuart!
Success - thank you Stuart !
Easy and so helpful!
Thanks for the help!
Tobias - I use Camtasia:Mac
This doesnt make any sense. when us select the crop marks to delete them like that you dont measure what you delete u dont know the length of your bleed after print
This is perfect. THANK YOU!
You are welcome.
Thank you for help Stuart :)
You are welcome Lubos.
Thank you! :)
Thanks Stuart!
thank you! very informative
Thanks Jan. 6mm to each side of the canvas - top and bottom.
Thanks! you are great : )
thank you, very detailed
Thank you !!
Thank you!
Thank you!
Thank you!
Thank you!
Glad it helped.
You are welcome.
You are welcome.
Gracias
Thanks!!
Thanks for the feedback!
next time get to the point straight away... no one wants to hear all this useless info.
thanks for the video of course!
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