{"id":3500,"date":"2021-11-11T09:35:46","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T20:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lincoln.ac.nz\/gis\/?p=3500"},"modified":"2021-11-11T09:35:46","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T20:35:46","slug":"making-your-arcgis-pro-map-look-better-with-the-blend-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lincoln.ac.nz\/gis\/making-your-arcgis-pro-map-look-better-with-the-blend-mode\/","title":{"rendered":"Making your ArcGIS Pro map look better with the blend mode"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blends are a new part of making maps with Pro.\u00a0 Skye gives us a sense of how it works.<\/em><\/p>\n

Hello everyone,<\/p>\n

This blog is an introduction to the blend mode in ArcGIS Pro.<\/p>\n

The blend mode is Pro is a useful tool that makes our GIS maps look great graphically without the help of Photoshop.<\/p>\n

Here is a base map part of the Port Hills. We can easily tell the boundary of the land, but the map looks flat.<\/p>\n

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To give the map some depth and dimension, I will first try using a hillshade effect in them. Hillshades enhance the three-dimensional appearance of the terrain by using patterns of light and shadow to create a 3D representation of the surface that makes it easier to identify landscape features.\u00a0To create this effect, I will use the digital elevation model (DEM) data.<\/p>\n

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After I got the DEM layer added to my map, I have used a raster function to apply the hillshade effect, by the following steps:<\/p>\n

1. Open the Raster Functions pane.<\/p>\n

2. Expand the Surface functions and select the Hillshade option (or search for Hillshade in the Raster Functions pane).<\/p>\n

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3. Set Raster to the DEM dataset.<\/p>\n

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4. There are two types of Hillshade, Traditional or Multidirectional.<\/p>\n

5. Click the Create new layer button at the bottom of the Raster Functions pane to create a new layer in the current map.<\/p>\n

The two map below shows the traditional hillshade (left) and the mutildirectional hillshade (right).<\/p>\n

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In this case, I will choose the traditional hillshade.<\/p>\n

Now, I am going to use the blend mode, to blend the hillshade layer to the base map below.<\/p>\n

To apply the blend mode, follow these steps.<\/p>\n

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  1. Click the Hillshade layer in the\u00a0Contents\u00a0pane to highlight it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    1. Under the layer’s contextual tab, click the\u00a0Appearance\u00a0tab.<\/li>\n
    2. Click the\u00a0Layer Blend\u00a0drop-down menu\u00a0to choose a blend mode. There are 20 different modes as shown in the table below.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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      Normal mode<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/td>\n

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      Lightening mode<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/td>\n

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      Darkening mode
      \n\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/td>\n

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      Comparison
      \nMode<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/td>\n

      		\n

      Divergent mode
      \n\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/td>\n

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      Colour combination mode<\/h4>\n

       <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

      <\/td>\nScreen<\/td>\nMultiply<\/td>\nDifference<\/td>\nOverlay<\/td>\nLuminosity<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
      <\/td>\nColour Dodge<\/td>\nColour Burn<\/td>\nExclusion<\/td>\nHard Light<\/td>\nSaturation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
      <\/td>\nLighten<\/td>\nDarken<\/td>\n<\/td>\nSoft Light<\/td>\nHue<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
      <\/td>\nLinear Dodge<\/td>\nLinear Burn<\/td>\n<\/td>\nLinear Light<\/td>\nColour<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
      <\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\nPin Light<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
      <\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\nVivid Light<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
      <\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

      Here is an example of the multiply mode, the appearance of the blend mode can be adjusted by changing the parameters under the enhancement.<\/p>\n

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      Here we go, now the base map has more depth by applying the blend mode.Thank you for reading my blog. \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Blends are a new part of making maps with Pro.\u00a0 Skye gives us a sense of how it works. Hello everyone, This blog is an introduction to the blend mode in ArcGIS Pro. The blend mode is Pro is a useful tool that makes our GIS maps look great graphically without the help of Photoshop. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lincoln.ac.nz\/gis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lincoln.ac.nz\/gis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lincoln.ac.nz\/gis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lincoln.ac.nz\/gis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lincoln.ac.nz\/gis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lincoln.ac.nz\/gis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lincoln.ac.nz\/gis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lincoln.ac.nz\/gis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lincoln.ac.nz\/gis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}