How to ensure template guidelines do not appear on your product

When working on our template to create your design, please make sure to delete or hide all guidelines before saving your file as a PDF or before rasterizing its content.

If you do not remove or hide the guidelines from the template, they will be printed on top of your design, resulting in an unprofessional result.

Here is how your file (Image 1) and the printed product (Image 2) would appear if the template guidelines were not removed or if they were rasterized along with the design:

Flat view of a tri-fold cosmetics brochure template where colored guidelines are still visible around the panels, which would print if not removed before saving.Brochure mockup marked with a red X as an incorrect example, showing the colored template guidelines mistakenly printed on the finished product because they were not removed from the template or were rasterized along with the design. 
 

Below, you can see how your file should appear once the template guidelines have been removed:

Flat view of the same tri-fold brochure with all template guidelines removed, leaving only the finished design content.
Brochure mockup marked with a green checkmark for a correct example, showing the finished product printed with no template guidelines visible, as they were correctly removed from the template. 

Before saving your final file, remember to delete or hide all the guidelines included in the template (you must also delete the green bleed line).

If you still have any doubts, please contact us. We're happy to help!

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