Example of how color grading tricks your eye, highlighting some things and suppressing others. Color banding is one common way to be dishonest with a map. Btw, mode to display a on the fly is awesome.

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Today in Blue Planet, rebuid of the Pacifica Archipelago. Blended Wet/Arid Biomes, some DEM enhancements and now with River systems.

Colour Landscape, New Hillshade, Rivers

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Next up Layer Blending, the goal here is to seamlessly blend the shadows and highlights from the Hillshading into the Colour Plate base.

1 - Hillshade with a Z-factor of 3
2 - Bottom Landscape of Land/Water Colours

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So for the first map I did a few years back the interpolated contours made a fairly majestic DEM and the Hillshade while fairly rounded was still really nice and contrasting.

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Day 3 of 2021 – Polygons

A hillshade generated from hillshade-contour polygons, using a method described by Russ White in his 2021 talk: https://t.co/YM7V7xeSVd

https://t.co/Its0AGxGnr

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I've been playing around with some DSM data in (Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh) Amazing what you can do without needing to extra software. It's great to combine the results of a GDAL Hillshade with "edges" & the results of the Batch Hillshader plugin. Then come the blend modes!

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