Correct image positioning is the most critical factor in ensuring a perfect print. Whether you are using our Online Editor or external software, you must strictly respect safety areas to prevent important elements from being cut off or unwanted white borders from appearing.
Follow these 3 golden rules:
1. Interpreting Red Lines (Safety Bleed): If using our Editor, you will see red lines around the page or cover. These lines indicate where trimming or folding will occur.
What to do: You must stretch your background image to fully cover this red area. This ensures that if there is a micro-deviation in the cut, there will be no white edges at the ends of the sheet.
What to avoid: Never place faces, text, or logos on or very close to this area. We recommend a minimum distance of 0.5 cm from the trim line so that, if the bleed area is fully trimmed, the layout remains coherent.
2. Safety Measures for External: Editing If you layout in external software, you must download our templates (masks) from the Download Area, which already include the correct guides (marked by the blue guide lines).
Standard Albums and Products: Allow for a 0.5 cm safety margin all around.
Fine Art Albums: Allow for a 0.8 cm safety margin all around.
3. White Margins: If you intend to leave an aesthetic white margin around the photo:
We advise that this margin be at least 2.5 cm from the trim zone.
This measurement is vital to absorb any production deviations and ensure symmetry, especially if you order Replicas, where proportional scaling would make smaller margins visually unappealing.