Indesign/pdf: bleed marks for cover

I am trying to save a pdf book cover file with bleed marks before I send it to the printer. My cover is 6x9.25 with .125 bleeds, so I made an indesign document with those specifications, placed my photoshopped cover which included the bleed (6.25x9.5) and it looked fine--the border around the 6x9.25 portion was correct. I exported it to a pdf, though, having clicked the bleed marks box and the use document bleed settings box, and the pdf that resulted was the 6.25x9.5 cover with a white border around it and the bleed marks set in this white border so that one would trim just to the edges of the 6.25x9.5 box, not .125 inside this box on each side, or 6x9.25. That's obviously not helpful. I don't know what to do. I also tried making the original indesign document 6.25x9.5 with the bleeds set at 0, and then adding the bleeds in the export stage, which put them in the white border again, but this time so that there would be a .125 white border around the whole 6.25x9.5 image. Thanks for any help. I've looked all over the internet and from all I can see it should be really simple. I just can't make it work.

First: The crop marks that they are asking for are little lines that mark the edges of the final document.
InDesign and Illustrator have document options that allow you to set up the bleed and slug (like a second bleed with printer information). Photoshop does not have this option. InDesign and Illustrator allow you to select an option to print a document with the bleed and crop marks. You will not be able to set up these in the PDF either, because the PDF will put the crop marks at the edges of the bleed, not the final document.
You will probably need expand the size of the photoshop document and add crop marks manually. The crop marks should look like a corner, situated so that the point touches the outer most corners of the document.
Or you could place the images in InDesign and export PDFs from InDesign with the correct crop marks. You will have to set the document size to the actual size of the business card and the bleed to the width of the the bleed. Then place the Photoshop file centered in the InDesign document. Next you will export the document as a PDF, be sure to turn on "crop marks" under "Marks and bleeds" on the left hand side.

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