![]() ![]() We’ve outlined the safe area to use as a design element. That’s why we should extend it all the way to the end of the bleed. We have a solid color background that we want to expand to the very edges of the business card template without leaving any unsightly white edges after trimming. Let’s assume that this is our final design in the example below. Here’s how your document should look like once you finish these steps: Repeat these 3 steps for the second artboard.Convert it to a guide and your safe area will be set. Make it 3,25′ by 1,75′ this time and align it with the center of the artboard. Take the Rectangle Tool (M) and create a 3,5′ by 2′ rectangle. Align it with the center of the artboard. Convert it to a guide and you’ll have your final size (the trim).Create a new 3,75′ by 2,25′ document with the same settings from the first method and then click OK.If you are using an older version of Adobe Illustrator, there is a possibility that it won’t have the Bleed option in the New Document dialog window but don’t worry! It’s not that much of a deal to make it manually. The difference between this method and the first one is that you should create your document with the size including the bleed zone and then, create two rectangles to define the final size of the business card template and its safe area. Then select Make Guide from the context menu. ![]() To convert the rectangles to guides simply select them both and right-click on one of them.Drag the rectangle to the other artboard by holding down the Alt / Option key to make a copy of it. ![]() Select the rectangle and align it with the center of the artboard by using the Horizontal Align Center and Vertical Align Center from the top sidebar.Set the width to 3,25 and the height to 1,75 inches.Select the Rectangle Tool (M) and click on one of the artboards.Then we will convert them to guides and this will create a 0,125′ indent from the Trim on each side. For this purpose, we will create two 3,25′ by 1,75′ rectangles and place them right in the centers of both artboards. But we need to define the safe area ourselves. We specified that we want to have a 0,125′ bleed on all sides in the New Document dialog box. Illustrator handled that for us quite well. Anything outside of this area runs the risk of being cut off! 2.1 Define the Safe Area This is where you should place the most important information or sections of your design. Being smaller than your final card, the safe area is kept far away from blades and cutting machines. This is the final size of your card after the ‘bleed’ has been cut off. The bleed’s purpose is to make sure your design or image entirely covers your card, leaving no unsightly white edges after trimming. In this case, the final size of the business card template will be equal to the size of the white artboard. Once the document is created, we need to make sure that our final design will remain intact after the business card has been printed and trimmed.īleed. This is the portion of your design that will be trimmed off when after cutting the card to its final size. (2) Using inches as a measurement unit is not mandatory. You can also work with millimeters or centimeters if you are not familiar with inches. International Business Card Dimensions Guide Keep in mind that a business card’s size and bleeds may vary in different countries. (1) 3.5′ x 2′ is a standard size in the US. These are the standard settings for print materials. Expand the Advancedtab (if not already expanded) and set the Color Mode to CMYK and Raster Effects to High (300 PPI). ![]() Later, we will be talking about bleeds and how to set them manually in older versions.
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