Extending Canvas For Printing

[sla453]

Hi Damien - I'm trying a new print service who states that they require the canvas to be extended by 3mm on each side to allow for trimming due to bleed.. So I intend for a 36x24 inch (91.44cm x 60.96cm) print.. Can you just confirm for me, when I go to Image/Canvas Size and change the width to 36.236in x 24.236in (92.04cm x 91.56cm), all its doing is extending the physical canvas and not the size of the image, leaving the final product 36x24in?? 

[Damien Symonds]

Oh gee.  There could be a few ways of interpreting this, and it would be messy to get it wrong.

Can you link me to their instructions, or screenshot them for me?

[sla453]

http://www.nushots.com.au/help/file-and-computer-requirements 

 

scroll to the bottom question "Will my pictures and pages be cropped?"...     and if this is the case, how could I add a white border around my image if I needed to??  Thanks mate.

[Damien Symonds]

DO NOT USE CANVAS SIZE.

When you're cropping your photo for print, crop it 6mm bigger.

Literally set your crop tool to 92.04cm x 91.56cm in the options bar, and crop.  That is all.

And as they say, don't have anything important in that final 3mm around each edge, knowing you will lose it.

[sla453]

Thanks mate I appreciate your help.. 

[Damien Symonds]

The thing is, every lab does this, but they don't usually tell us.

I mean, we send them our sized print file, they print it at about 102% in size, to allow for exactly this cropping error margin.

[sla453]

That's worth knowing