Affinity Photo and bleed settings?

[lehtiniemi]

I can't seem to find a place where to set the bleed amount in Affinity Photo. I have tried setting up margins to 3mm and then check "Include bleed" in the PDF export options, but still, Affinity Photo crops the document at the crop markers where it should also include the 3mm bleed that I have. Instead, this 3mm margin becomes added inside the markers and not outside.

Is this a missing feature or why are there bleed settings it's not yet possible to set them up? From the forums I understand that there should be a bleed setting in the document-menu, but is this only for Designer?

[toltec]

Photo is an image editing program and they tend to work based on a canvas, not a page. In other words, no bleed!

Designer or Publisher are page based programs and do produce bleed.

The bleed option is there because Photo can load and edit Designer documents, so if you set bleed in Designer, Photo would output the page with bleed.

[lehtiniemi]

Ah, thanks! This is actually what happened, I opened an Affinity Designer -document my friend made so it was confusing since you could change the page size and all the "Include bleed"-options were there, but you couldn't change it in any way. I had never used the bleed feature of Affinity Photo before so I didn't know it was limited to stuff set in Designer.

It's not entirely true though that there's _no bleed_ in Affinity Photo, since there actually seems to be everything else EXCEPT the settings to change the amount of bleed. All the checkboxes to use these settings are there during the export.

And also for an image editing software I think it's completely ok to assume that the photos edited in it would go to print some day since all the color profiling is there as well. So I don't see why there wouldn't be bleed in a photo editing software (as there _almost_ seems to be, but not fully). The meaning of bleed feature (to me) is to make it automatic to export the 3mm on the sides instead of having to every time add my own crop markers.

[DieterW]

Well, there is not and there is. As already mentioned everything is there, but they forgot to give the option to set the bleed size. Currently the only option is to define the bleed with Designer or Publisher.

What you need to do:

1. Create image, e.g. 102x102 mm
2. Resize Cancas to e.g. 100x100 (centered). The canvas size defines the image. You need image elements extending outwards the canvas for the bleed, otherwise the bleed will be empty.
3. File > Edit in Designer/Publisher
4. File > Document Setup > Bleed: set your bleed, e.g. 2mm
5. File > Edit in Photo
6. When you export or print this image then per default you get your canvas, so the 100x100 image, what you see is what you get
7. When you print and set bleed to on, then the defined bleed will be applied and the image parts outside the canvas are printed for bleed