Problem with crop marck and....

[serhigh]

Hi there,

Well, I made a brochure, but when I carry to the printer, they ask me about the crop marcks and the marck where the have to blen the brochure, but I cant find the way to put this marks in the document

pleace, give me ideas, I have Photoshop, or i should use another program???

thank you a lot,

sergio

 

[blueark]

Normally, finished artwork is assembled in a page layout package, such as QuarkXPress or InDesign. Any work done in Photoshop is usually imported into a program like this where it's easier to set up precise layouts.

Having said that, there are actions available to create crop marks in Photoshop. Go to

http://share.studio.adobe.com/

and search for 'Crop Marks' under Photoshop files. There's at least one there, although it doesn't seem to take bleed into account (areas that extend past the image area). You may have to extend your image area a little after running this action as your printer won't be able to cut it down accurately otherwise.

 

[serhigh]

Hi, thabks for your answer,
I will try with Quark, but them the image size of the document have to be bigger of the EPS file that I export from Photoshop, to have place for this marks?

The other thing is that I will not print the job, I have to give to other people, that will print the job in Offsett,

 

[blueark]

If you have Quark, don't add crop marks in Photoshop. If your finished size is, say, 210x297mm (A4), and your Photoshop EPS is going to fill the whole page, then do something like this:

1: Make your Photoshop document slightly bigger than you need (eg. 216x303mm)
2: Make your Quark document exactly the size you need.
3: Draw a picture box in Quark the same size as the Photoshop document and center it so it goes off the page on each side.
4: Place your EPS into this box.

Don't worry about crop marks. Quark's print dialog box has options to add them automatically, so whoever is printing it will look after that.

 

[serhigh]

Ok, I will do that now!!

them there another thing, ok I have a brochure that I fold you know, and there is an option like fold mark, or I should use like 3 boxes___