Adding Bleed to your designs in Dextrous

In this tutorial, you'll learn about bleed! What it is, why it's necessary and how to calculate the exact amount of bleed you need to get pngs at pixel perfect dimensions for different printers. A bit of a longer one sorry, but I hope it's worth it to understand properly how bleed works. Bleeeeeeed! -------------------------------------------------------------- Dextrous: https://www.dextrous.com.au/ Our Discord: https://discord.gg/FSeSCCk9u2 Dextrous is an online card game design tool for making board game components including cards, boards and tokens. This is a tool made by designers, for designers, with a drag-and-drop editor and a focus on speed and flexibility. Print your designs to PDF, or quickly export to platforms like Tabletop Simulator so you can get your game ideas out of your head and onto the table as quickly as possible. Use our built-in template layouts or create your own to get a truly dextrous prototyping workflow that frees you up to focus on the fun stuff. -------------------------------------------------------------- Chapters: 00:00 What is bleed? 2:32 Setting up Bleed in Dextrous (for the base zone) 4:09 Extend other zones into the Bleed area if needed 5:53 Safe area (important icons shouldn't be on the edge) 7:19 How much bleed? Depends on your printer! 8:15 Calculating correct bleed 9:10 Exporting pngs with bleed for a particular printer 9:55 Check your png dimensions 10:25 Outro 10:48 Design note 1: thin borders are bad 11:59 Design note 2: borderless is best