Design brief

My final project will be an assortment of different shadow boxes that I will cut in Photoshop touch up in Illustrator and then cut out on the laser cutter.  I want to do one of a cave, one of the mountains, and one of a forest.  The cave will be cut using a real photo that I have taken.  The mountains will be one that will not have a defined picture.  The forest will take a variety of different photos that I have taken and put them together to make it seem like a forest.  It will be a night scene so there will be a moon it the background surrounded by a bunch of stars.  Each one will be finished the same way with the cave and mountain being finished with cool white lights and the wolf and moon being finished with RGB lights.  I want to do this because it is a different way to show off a picture.  Also in architecture the laser cutter is becoming a more popular way to convey one's thoughts and this will help if I become an architect.

• Can be no bigger then 12 by 24
• It needs to look crisp.
• Some materials are foam core, poster board, Led lights. 
• I need to know how to use Photoshop Illustrator and the laser cutter