![]() Now that we have our die line, we want to make sure that our bleed is nice and clean, it’s also nice to have a clipping path we can use when laying out our artwork in case we are printing multiple pieces up on one sheet. Once your dieline is complete, go to the paths pallet and double click the layer to change it’s name to “dieline”. Small jagged cuts won’t look good, and may not even be possible if the cuts are too small and tight. Click and drag with the pen tool to make nice smooth curves. Create a path that follows the edge of the artwork using as few points as possible. ![]() Do this by selecting the pen tool, and set the drop down box near the top of the screen to Path (figure 1.1). If a die line wasn’t provided and there’s nothing in the paths tab, you will need to create a dieline with the pen tool. Did the designer include a die line in their art to indicate how they would like it cut? If an Illustrator die line file was not included with the art let’s take a look in the paths tab to see if there is one there. Hopefully it was created at full size or half size to make things easier on us. First things first, let’s check the size of the artwork. Luckily it’s easier to add bleed to a design that is created completely in photoshop than it is to one that is created in Illustrator or Indesign with a few linked images hanging over the edges here and there, but we’ll get to that shortly. The majority of artwork we receive that doesn’t have bleed has been created completely in Photoshop.
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