Hi,
I went to a printer to show them my day planner design and get an estimate. The day planner is 6" wide by 9" tall. I created mixed media collages by hand on paper 6"x9" for each month spread and for small images in the bottom righthand and lefthand corners of the pages, not realizing that I would need 1/8" of bleed on all sides to accommodate the imperfect printing process. I also found out today when visiting a commercial printer that, since I'll be using wire-o binding, I also have to have an extra 1/4" on the spine side of each page, too.
I am wondering if there is a quicker way to get my images on the bleed area (right now, I am using the clone tool in Photoshop and content-aware fill, but neither are all that great). Below is a screen shot of a sample cover page (I'm not quite ready to share my actual designs yet!) with the red rectangle being the bleed and the pink indicating the margins. You can see that the image doesn't reach the bleed, so to avoid having unsightly white marks around the edges, I need the image to reach all the bleed marks, but my images were made by hand to be the precise dimensions of the document (6"x9"). The designs I have are quite complex, so using the cloning tool or a mirror image is going to take FOREVER and also look pretty crappy (since I'm still a novice at Photoshop, as well). Is there an easier/quicker way to accomplish this feat? I have 13 full-page designs that need to be adjusted, as well as 24 additional smaller designs that will need similar adjusting.
I would also like to know how to make the content on each page look centered (on the cover page, I'm referring to "2019," but on the daily layouts, I'm referring to the hours I've listed out, among other things) given that the wire-o binding will require 1/4" on the inside pages...
I had already completed the document (several hundred pages) when I visited the printer today, so I'm really hoping there is a way to make adjustments that doesn't require me to completely redo the entire document. As you might have guessed, I'm new to InDesign (I only started learning how to use it this year), so please explain any answers very simply 
Thanks, in advance!!!!
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The images you've created in Photoshop, are they high resolution? If so you should be able to scale the image in InDesign so that it reaches your bleed lines. It will mean that you will sacrifice the outer edge of the image to the guillotine. But it is important to have a bleed for any commercial printer. If your images are high res then they shouldn't pixelate or go fuzzy with the slight enlargement in InDesign. That would probably be easier than having to redo everything in Photoshop.
As for the binding. Have you got snap guides on in your version of InDesign? If so then you should be able to take the text box you are wanting to centre and move it slightly to either the left or right (be mindful that the margin will change sides depending on if you've set it up as a facing pages document and it's a double sided print). You'll get a purple guide line come up and that will mark the centre of your page margins, which I presume you've set up so that the page reflects the binding margin. If you haven't set it up your, then you'll have to change that in your margins and guides section.
The normal guide line for the centre of the page is usually pink.
I've attached a screenshot so you can see what I'm talking about regarding the snap guide. You can see that my page has been setup with the margin larger on one side to accommodate the spiral binding (or wire banding in your case).
Hope that helps you a little bit!!
Thank you for your advice! My images are scanned into Photoshop at 600dpi, but the reason I can't increase the size of the images to the bleed lines is because it will distort the composition of the images (I created mixed media collages on 6"x9" paper and then scanned them, so they're the exact size of the final document, not including bleeds).
I do have snap guides turned on, but for whatever reason, the only way I can view the bleeds is by using Normal view. Even when I select Bleed view, it doesn't show the bleeds. I was able to see that purple line, though, so now I understand what it means. Thank you for the reminder regarding which side of the page will require that extra 1/4" for the wire-o binding.
In terms of adjusting the layout of the document to account for the new margins, is there an easy/quick way to change the layout of the content on each page? I duplicated my file and adjusted the document layout, but most of the pages in my document were ruined (below I have included a screen shot of what was once a daily layout including the date, day of the week and times of day that you can now see is empty/rearranged improperly).
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