You can manually edit bleeds to mask portions of the artwork. You can also adjust rectangular bleed margins to crop out extra image area, such as printer's marks, by using negative settings in the bleed margins.
You can edit bleeds by adding points to the bleed path and dragging the points to the desired locations, and by deleting points. Using the Geometry palette, you can adjust the positions of points and sections with greater precision.
Hold down the Option key (Macintosh) or Alt key (Windows) to add or delete points on the bleed path. The Bleed tool pointer changes appearance to indicate its current status:
indicates that the pointer is in position to add a point to a bleed path
indicates that the pointer is in position to delete a point from a bleed path
indicates that the pointer is too far from all points and paths to be able to perform any actions
You can select bleed points one at a time, or you can select multiple points at the same time by marqueeing them.
When you do this | This happens |
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Select a path segment | The two points and adjacent lines are selected |
Select a single point on the path | The point and adjacent lines are selected |
Drag a point when a path section is selected | The selected section moves |
To add a point to the bleed path:
To delete a point from the bleed path:
To move a path segment:
To copy a bleed path from one artwork to another: