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What is your workflow like when you want to print a map using Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop?

I'm a newbie so I've come up with just two methods which I'm not entirely satisfied with. They're either:

1 - Tracing a screenshot from Google Earth (manually with the vector pen or with the trace button like in picrel)

or

1 - Go to BBBike and select the area I want
2 - Extract the shapefile and open it in QGIS
3 - Go to layout and add items (legend, scale bar, etc.)
4 - Export as PDF to Ai/Ps and add some finishing touches

I'm inspired by works such as History of the world map by map, or magazines like NatGeo. HELP