Hi Lizzy,

I believe that those pink stripes you’re referring to are extra pointers. You should avoid putting critical material inside those pink stripes.

While the trim guidelines can give you a good idea of where your book will be trimmed, it may not be 100% accurate. For that reason, you want to keep all critical elements (text, head shots, etc.) away from those stripes.

Hope this helps!

Sophie :)

Thanks Sophie, I’ve just shrunk all my 287 pages to fit them in!!! Trouble is that the pink stripes take up a huge proportion of the page when your doing a seven inch square book!

I made 30×30cm pages in PS and uploaded them as JPEG’s. It looks exactly like I planned in BookSmarts preview. I received the book today and lots of edges has fallen of and to be honest, the whole idea of my book is sestroyed.

So yes, I would like to know too if you want a full bleed, where to put the edge of the image … on the red dotted line of within the pink area?

 Now this book was for myself, but I want to have a wedding album printed the same way and I really need to know whether the book will be printed like I see in the preview.

The way I interpret that FAQ is the trim lines are the likely point of trim, but as trimming is a mechanical process there can be slight variations so to play safe you shouyld not put any critical part of your image (such as the top of a person’s head) inside the pink zone.

It is important that your full bleed images go right to the edge of the page, thus beyond the trim line. If you have the image exactly on the trim line there is a danger, if the trim is slightly less, that you could get a white strip along the edge of the page.

…..Tony