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szabolcsk66074642
szabolcsk66074642
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September 23, 2019
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How to bleed photos with diecut shape in Photoshop?

  • September 23, 2019
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I have to make diecut POS materials ready for printing and I have to bleed complicated images around its shape, like a beer bottle packshot and a human figure. Is there any automation in Photoshop that I can use? I mean I tried to go around the edge of the images with the stamp tool but it is way too time consuming. Any help would be very much appreciated here...

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szabolcsk66074642
szabolcsk66074642Author
Participant
September 24, 2019

Thank You all for the tips! I tried content aware fill and it works quite well on some images however there are a lot of others that need a lot of manual correction (pls find an example attached). My boss told me that we are expecting tons of jobs like that in the following months, that's why I'm concerned a bit...

c.pfaffenbichler
Community Expert
c.pfaffenbichlerCommunity Expert
Community Expert
September 24, 2019

Why are you concerned? Stuff takes time and not everything can be automated meaningfully, so if creating the bleed for an image takes time you have to get paid for the effort, right? 

Norman Sanders
Norman Sanders
Legend
September 23, 2019

 Before adding the bleed, be sure to create a keyline drawing on a transparent layer above the image so that it may be used as a precise guide when creating the steel rule die. 

    davescm
    Community Expert
    davescmCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    September 23, 2019

    Hi

    Try this
    Duplicate the image layer

    Make a selection of the image and save as Alpha 1

    Select > Modify > Expand the selection by the required bleed width and save as Alpha 2

    In Image calculations Subtract Alpha 1 from Alpha 2 as shown below and output as selection

    You now have a selection around the edge - use content aware fill to fill it from the image

     

    Dave

     

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      MoonDesign951
      Known Participant
      February 4, 2020

      This solution worked very well. Just some minor touch-up, but otherwise this worked great!

      Is this something that could be turned into an "Action"?

      c.pfaffenbichler
      Community Expert
      c.pfaffenbichlerCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      September 23, 2019

      You could try Conten Aware Fill but ultimately some manual input may be hard to avoid. 

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