Photoshop: Add Printer Marks and Bleeds when saving as PDF

Users wish to do so many things, why wait for Adobe, they may never address your particular wish.

Just create an Action or Script. One such example:

https://youtu.be/5D1kQlnfMok?si=fdB7kHEffrhhSSR7

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaqBXhs6yXA

One would likely need two versions, one for use with files that already had the canvas size set to include bleed, and a separate one for files that didn't have bleed.

There is no registration colour in Photoshop, so if working with CMYK and or spot colours this would also need to be taken into account if the page marks needed to correctly separate to each plate.

I agree 100% that it would be AMAZING for Photoshop to incorporate bleeds into the artboards, I am tired of creating every document and then manually drawing in my guidelines, even just automating this would be an amazing feature "create guides 1/8" in from the edges," boom, done, regardless of artboard size.

For those struggling with it, I can tell you that here is what we do

• Create photoshop document oversized, 1/8 inch bleeds as usual
• Open the doc in Acrobat (I am suuming you have the full version of acrobat)
• Click on EDIT PDF (turn off "recognize text)
• Click on the CROP tool
• Double click anywhere in the image
• This brings up the trim, bleed, etc
• Change the art box (constrain proportions) and reduce all 4 sides by 1/8"
• Hit Okay and you will see that it moved the little purple lines in for the bleed.
• (This also assumes that you have View Trim boxes turned on)
• Save this file, and it will have the proper bleeds defined for the printer 

I am a printer BTW and this is the process that we use when we get a file without bleeds defined, or need to create the file in Photoshop since it does not allow for bleeds.  This allows our imposition software to recognize the bleeds, and automatically add cropmarks, etc.

Does it work to add printers marks in Acrobat (until and if they are ever put in Photoshop by the developers?)

https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/printer-marks-hairlines-acrobat-pro.html

Jane

Forum volunteer

I've just voted for this, I've been doing page layout, design, pre-press (call it what you want) for over 30 years.

Traditionally done in Quark and Indesign yes, but when, more often than not these days, supplied with a Photoshop file, there is no point creating a extra step in a busy studio beinging a psd into Indesign if Photoshop had the same functionality.

It may not be 'right' but if I had 20 of these to

do I'd rather gets the jobs out quicker and have less stress.