Bleed/crop marks for oddly shaped design

[jeremyb84147792]

I am designing a label that needs to go on a bottle. The design is oldly shaped (kinda like a triangle with a curve). The professional printer owner said he can cut it out.

But...

I am confused as to how to add bleeds and crop lines. When I do it it simply adds the bleed/crop lines to the artboard and not direclty around my oddly shaped image.

If someone could do a screen recording of how this is done I'd be forever thankful.

Thank you! 🙏🏻

[Monika Gause]

It's called a dieline and it's basically the shape of the label drawn as a path. One path.

You need to ask the printer how the dieline needs to be assigned. Some printers want a specific color. Some want it on a specific layer. You have to ask that.

Here are examples for setting that up. Please ask the printer for the details. You need to do that.

https://youtu.be/dLGGwYqma08

[Michael Ambroise · Accepted solution]

@jeremyb84147792 To add Bleed and Trim line directly around to you design in this case, you can also use the "Offset path" option in illustrator.

[Michael Ambroise]

You can try this also !

[Michael Ambroise]

A bleed serves as a safety margin when trimming the document after printing. Therefore, if your content extends beyond the edge of the page, such as a colored background or an image, you should extend it to the bleed to avoid white lines appearing along the edge of your document.

[jeremyb84147792]

Thanks so much! The Printer said to mark the crop lines with a megenta color. That's all he told me. 

[jeremyb84147792]

I am hoping this is not an absolutely ridiculous request.

I certainly know it's not anyone's responsiblity to help a lost designer...but I thought I would ask.

I am new to Illustrator (but used Photoshop for years). 

I have a project where I need to add bleeds and crop lines to an image that has to be printed and cut out (at a professional printers place).

However, the image is not a standard retangle or square. It's an oddly shaped image.

The printer said he can cut it out but I need to add extra bleeds and "magenta" lines. 

I am lost. 

Would anyone be willing to add these for me if I send you the AI file? 

I'd be forever thankful 🙏🏻

P.S. I attached a screen shot (not true quaity) of the image for your reference. 

[Monika Gause]

This is a self help forum. We can help you make it your self.

You need to find the horizontal center of the design (which is the point.)

Draw a guide.

Then with the pen tool draw the straight lines. https://creativecloud.adobe.com/cc/learn/illustrator/web/use-pen-tool?locale=en-x-AFRICA

The top curved border is most probably part of a circle. Draw a circle from the center (your guide) and adjust it until it matches the top line.

Then use the shapebuilder tool to build a shape.

Is that screenshot the final size? Then you need to add bleed to the outside. Do you have a larger image of that water (?). You will need it.

[Ton Frederiks]

Merged with your other post.

[Jacob Bugge]

Jeremy,

Based on your screenshot in the other thread merged into this,

https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/bleed-crop-marks-for-oddly-shaped-design/td-p...

I trust (and hope) that the label is for the (cylindrical) side of the bottle, rather than for the (conical) neck (where I believe it would look funny)?

The exact way depending on exactly how the label was created, it can be quite easy to create the bleed with the help of Object>Path>Offset Path.

By the looks of it,. it could have been made with one water photo at the bottom, then a white band across, the text, and a Clipping Path round the whole thing at the top.

If that is the case, you can just copy the Clipping Mask and give it a magenta stroke, then offset it to give enough bleed and use that a new larger Clipping Mask, then extend the length of the white band beyound the new Clipping Mask.

[Michael Ambroise]

Hello Jeremy,
Were you able to resolve the issue?