Bleed and Crop Marks in Adobe Illustrator

Learn all you need to know about setting up the bleed area and the cropmarks in Adobe Illustrator. Simple and straigtforward.
This video consists of the following subjects:
(00:00) Start
(00:07) What is the bleed area?
(00:14) What are the crop marks?
(00:19) Set up a new document with bleed area
(01:17) Make changes to the bleed area of a pre-existing artboard
(02:01) Option 1: Apply crop marks in Illustrator
(02:50) Option 2: Apply crop marks when saving as .PDF (best way)
(04:02) Compare results
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[@jonathanalejandro6504]

Thank you for this tutorial! You just saved me a lot of work

[@davidcamargo3809]

AMAZING EXPLANATION MATE, EVEN THOUSAND TIMES BETTER THAN MY ACTUAL "LECTURERS"

[@czaszi]

Very helpful. Thanks for this tutorial. Especially appreciate the comment about expanding background to prevent white marks when cutting the print.

[@BlueGirlBookz]

So how many artboards do I need? I only have 2 templates I need to do. One portrait. One landscape for my graphics. So just one artboard for each template?

[@PrimoTutorials]

You can apply cropmarks to each artboard

[@BlueGirlBookz]

Hi, so what if I have already gotten my document set up and I just need to do bleed and crop

[@PrimoTutorials]

Follow along starting from 1:24 to make changes to a existing artboard!

[@codobyte]

How do I determine how much bleed and how much crop space is needed?
Groeten uit Eindhoven

[@PrimoTutorials]

The industry standard is 3mm of bleed when uploading a design for print/offset purposes. Groetjes terug!

[@BlueGirlBookz]

So is the crop mark the trim mark?

[@PrimoTutorials]

Yes same thing

[@rikard.h]

@@PrimoTutorials Adobe as consistent as ever