{"id":2729462,"date":"2025-03-13T07:06:05","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T14:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&p=2729462"},"modified":"2025-03-13T07:06:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T14:06:05","slug":"mega-easy-chromatic-hillshade","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-pro\/mapping\/mega-easy-chromatic-hillshade","title":{"rendered":"Mega easy chromatic hillshade"},"author":6971,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[22941],"tags":[720281,26451,24141,778812,24401],"industry":[],"product":[36561],"class_list":["post-2729462","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","tag-blend-modes","tag-cartography","tag-elevation","tag-mountain","tag-terrain","product-arcgis-pro"],"acf":{"short_description":"Here's how you can conjure your own multidirectional hillshading in ArcGIS Pro. And blend colors for trippy realism.","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Creating a hillshade with ArcGIS Pro’s raster functions<\/a> is spectacularly simple…but also spectacularly fun. There’s a sense of magic behind a simple button press. Whole landscapes reveal themselves. Data transforms into information. Geography becomes art. All that.<\/p>\n

So if a single button press is so rewarding, what’s the harm in a few more button presses? None, that’s how much.<\/p>\n

Here’s how you can conjure your own fully custom multidirectional hillshading in ArcGIS Pro. Then get crazy and do a chromatic hillshade. Then get ridiculous and apply hypsometric tinting.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"youtube","start_time":"0","end_time":"","youtube_video_url":"