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Travel to the Windy City with New York Central Lines.Related content
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Is this a Commodore Vanderbilt?
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may i share this in the facebook group I run dedicated to trains?
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By all means, please do!
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A superb illustration, catches the style of the era wonderfully!
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Can I ask what software this is done in, how it was made, and how the grainy dotty type of effect is made also? Thanks.
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I create all my work in Adobe Illustrator. If a good photograph of my chosen subject is available (at the correct angle etc.) I just trace over the photograph with the pen tool and create a Live Paint Group to fill in the colours. In this case the train and platform came from one photograph, the building from another, and the smoke/steam was created by layering together a large number of circles.
Once the vector image is completed in Illustrator, I export it and open it in Photoshop. I then apply Filter>Noise>Add Noise and Filter>Noise>Dust and Scratches to give it the grainy effect. This grain greatly increases the size of the file, though, so for printing and uploading I usually re-export it as a JPG after applying some compression.
I hope this helps 
-Gilles
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Yes that is most useful, I thought that it might have been made in Illustrator because for the past years I have been learning different styles and this one has interested me to sort of figure out how it is done, thanks.
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