Looking for advice on creating/overlaying a google map


looking helpful suggestions improve maps making. here doing, creating street overlay map on top of google earth image. begin saving screenshot in google earth pro , crop , resave photo (jpeg) in photoshop specific size need. take revised photo , insert illustrator , apply street , highway colors , highway icons onto jpeg. re-save again (jpeg) , final product. problem image quality not great started with. have suggestion improve or maintain image quality?

 

thanks

if starting bitmap file, , going bitmap format, should change in photoshop. every time save s jpeg there si degredation, placing lo res bitmap in illustrator , making jpeg weven worse bitmaps may not align pixel grid.

 

if must work in illustrator, turn on align pixel grid, vector elements, atleast when bitmap, hit pixel grid correctly.

 

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keep in mind hat each time save jpeg, there loss in qulaity fomr calculating pixels drop. keep saving .ai format, , make .jpeg that. if work in photoshop keep saving .psd, , wehn need jpeg, export copy .jpg, keep .psd revisions.



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