This project is about setting up a 2-sided trifold brochure. I chose Roaring Camp Railroads which is located near my home. So I was able to use a combination of my own photos along with a few off of their web site. This was first and foremost an exercise in layout, so I used the ruler, grid, and guides.
I went back and forth from Photoshop to Illustrator constantly, as I used Photoshop to format the images before I brought them into the Illustrator layout. I embedded all the images so I wouldn't have worry about linked files. I framed all the images with a 5 pt. path and added a drop shadow to unify them. The background on the inside is a live trace of one of my images of a bank of trees bordering the property. I used the high fidelity photo preset in the live trace options and then took the opacity down to about 40%. Due to embedding the images, and the high fidelity preset on the live trace, the file size is huge. If this was a print project I would've handled it differently, but it's easier to upload without attaching all the extra files.
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