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Creating a bleed guide

Creating a bleed guide

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Creating a bleed guide

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So, I've created guidelines out of the fold and cut components of the dieline, but I'd like to have something that shows me where bleed should fall. Now, I could just wing it, as long as there's 1 8th of an inch of bleed, I'm okay, right? But I'd really like it to be nice and neat. So I'm going to show you a little trick. First I am going to make a new layer and I'm going to hold some objects there until I turn them into guides. I make sure I don't mess up my guides, I'm going to lock my guide layer. So in order to be able to spot where I put these I am going to use just kind of an arbitrary colour. So I am going to make them yellow just so they are easy to find and over here I'm going to change my stroke to none. So with my rectangle tool, I'm going to make rectangles that correspond to the trim edges of my panels. And then I'm going to let Illustrator help me create guidelines that are going to serve for my bleed location. So again, I'm just going to drag in here, so what I want to…

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