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Text to Image, proper prompt to add bleeds to art

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March 28, 2025
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Often I receive "print ready" art from clients to print who do not know how or what bleeds are which lead me to get creative with their stuff. Sometimes I can just place the image and expand the image box and run Text to Image to automatically generate decent bleeds. Other times it seems nothing I try will probably add acceptable bleeds to it. Is there an actual text prompt I can type it so the AI can understand that I want actual bleeds added?

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Eugene Tyson

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Often I receive "print ready" art from clients to print who do not know how or what bleeds are which lead me to get creative with their stuff. Sometimes I can just place the image and expand the image box and run Text to Image to automatically generate decent bleeds. Other times it seems nothing I try will probably add acceptable bleeds to it. Is there an actual text prompt I can type it so the AI can understand that I want actual bleeds added?

By @Vico Drive

I've never tried the AI bleed. PItstop pro does an excellent job preflighting PDFs and adding bleed.

James Gifford—NitroPress

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I confess being absolutely unable to parse this post.

Mike Witherell

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I agree with your basic thought. Since the adjustment to the bleed line is a straightforward proposition, the AI-ish-ness should be reduced down to a simple command: fix bleed on this selected image frame.

Mike Witherell

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I may have to add "AI bleeds" as a feature request. Seems like it should be pretty simple. Sometimes when I'm trying to make bleeds on a flyer or something, it kind of makes the flyer look like it's sitting on a table or some kind of surface. Other times it's just something weird overall

Colin Flashman

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InDesign sort of has this for photos - called generative expand - but Mike Rankin at CreativePro has a good reason to use alternatives for the time being: https://creativepro.com/why-you-should-use-generative-expand-in-photoshop-not-indesign/

Adobe Acrobat - via its preflight feature - can add bleed, but either does so by stretching the artwork or mirroring it (not great)

An Adobe Acrobat plug-in called Enfocus Pitstop has an Action list that will stretch rectangular vectors past their trim box to the bleed box - this works well...

...but they have an even better one for labels where the trim edge isn't always a rectangle (e.g. could be an oval, circle, or freeform shape defined by a cutter shape) and this is nearly magical, but again not perfect.

In terms of AI though, Acrobat's AI Assistant focuses more on text content rather than print requested features like auto bleed. Believe me, if they added an AI bleeds feature as part of the Acrobat Preflight, I'd jump on it.

I'd written a parody piece in late 2023 after attending Adobe MAX in LA and watching the presentation about the "new" features in InDesign. The piece is here https://colecandoo.com/2023/10/19/new-features-in-indesign-2024-and-about-time-too/ and in that piece I talk about a "new" feature called "magic bleed".

So far as an AI to add bleed in InDesign, if you are using the Omata Mate plug-in, you may want to try "make the artwork bleed to the bleed edge" and see the results... but it depends what the element is (a vector in InDesign or PDF placed art for example), does it contain a gradient or clipping path... there are always complications.

If the answer wasn't in my post, perhaps it might be on my blog at colecandoo!

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