November 17th, 2009
Today begins a new feature at the Pixxlz blog; the Design Tip of the Week. It’s a new way for us to help our customers by offering fun tips and ideas for designing on our site. It will also help you use our design tool better, so that together we create the best printed products.
Designing With the Bleed ::
All of our templates incorporate crop marks to indicate the final trim size of your document. When an image or text goes over the border, this is called the bleed. The term bleed is used for all objects overlapping the trim lines of your document. Therefore, a document slightly larger than the finished size is printed to accommodate the bleed and to make sure all important content is contained within the trim lines and not cut during finishing.
When designing with our templates, you will notice that all four corners have crop marks which indicate where the cutter will slice the paper to the finished size. Even though the cut should be accurate, it is best to leave an additional 1/8″ between the crop marks and foreground objects to ensure that nothing gets cut off. Documents also look a lot better when you leave a slight margin.
So when you go to design your next eco friendly printed product, make sure you consider the bleed and crop marks. You’ll be calling yourself a graphic designer in no time!
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September 30th, 2009
There’s a new design feature at Pixxlz.com that makes creating your eco-friendly printed products even easier! A lot of times, people want to use our business card or flyer templates, but would prefer to customize the background while maintaining the pre-designed text layout. Well we heard your requests people! Customizing the background of a template is now a reality. Here’s how you do it: When you click on one of our product templates and start designing, there is the option to “Add an Image” on the upper right corner of the design toolbar. Click here! With the new feature, after you have browsed for an image, you can choose to “Check to Replace Design Background,” which replaces the entire background image with your own. You no longer have to decide between uploading your own file and creating a design on a blank template to customize a design. And this, my friends, makes creating custom eco-friendly printed products at Pixxlz.com as easy as ever.
What’s so helpful about this feature, you may ask? Now you can use the text layouts of a template that you like and replace the background image with your own. The best part is that you don’t lose the text box that went with the original template, so no need to worry about sizing or centering a new one: it’s already done for you. Check out the two templates below; the left one is unedited and the right template has had an image added into the background using the new feature.
Want to get paid for templates you design? Pixxlz.com features collections from graphic designers and photographers who want to share their work with our customers. Each time someone selects and buys one of your designs, you earn commission. It’s a great way to gain exposure as a designer and earn some extra money for designs you have already created. Interested? We’d love to hear from you. Contact us for info!
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