How to Create a Beautiful Hillshade in QGIS

The Hillshade tool obtains the hypothetical illumination of a surface by determining illumination values for each cell in a raster.
A hillshade is used to create a beautiful understanding of the terrain of a given area.
In this video, I show you how to create a beautiful hillshade, I have used an SRTM DEM 30m resolution file.
Enjoy!!!!

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[@playfra5004]

Hey, thanks for the tutorial! Though I was wondering, is there any way to draw on top of the hillshade and still have the shade visible on the drawn polygon? Thanks in advance :)

[@JessetheGeographer]

Yes please,.once you play with the transparency of the polygon layer

[@decolinuxes]

Great tutorial, thanks!

[@supermanifolds]

thank you so much!

[@JessetheGeographer]

You're welcome!

[@chomanthapa]

But how do we combine these two layers and make them into one ?

[@danielantonio3098]

beautiful my friend, new sub :)

[@JessetheGeographer]

Thanks for the sub!

[@claudiosimon968]

thank you so. You help me by this video

[@allankennedy5577]

Wonderful 🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@JessetheGeographer]

Thank you 🙌

[@alexandragridneva]

In which app did you download your DEM? I dont know where to get the DEM i need to start with

[@JessetheGeographer]

You can use srtm DEM

[@LuckyLAK17]

Dear Mr. Buyungo, is it possible to combine the two rasters into one which delivers the same visual effect and if yes, how? I just can't find a way in QGIS. thanks in advance.

[@JessetheGeographer]

Not really

[@caleblee7989]

How do I add this to geoserver?

[@noname33368]

I have tried to make map. But there shows 2 legends. Is there any way to show only one band data on legend?

[@JessetheGeographer]

Yes please, there is a way

[@jackbacon3723]

great video

[@JESUSGONZALEZGOMEZ-v2j]

Good

[@Rafikmrkm]

Wgs 84 (it is decimal degrees ) never give proper z value , it should be in meters...

[@cansitpanton5637]

bro u sound like Ivar the Boneless in the show Viking. Great video though, Thanks!

[@alieken9630]

z factor???

[@inaldemirkaya3038]

Her enlem için farklı z faktörü değerleri girmek gerekiyor, burada onu ayarlayamamış. Zaten dikkat edersen görüntü de iyi ölçeklenmediği için yeterince netleşmedi. İnternette ''Setting the Z Factor parameter correctly'' şeklinde arama yaparsan orada her enlem değeri için gerekli z faktörü değerlerini bulabilirsin.