{"id":2943743,"date":"2025-10-17T10:18:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&p=2943743"},"modified":"2025-10-17T10:18:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:18:26","slug":"shades-in-a-map","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis\/mapping\/shades-in-a-map","title":{"rendered":"Shades in a Map"},"author":4551,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[22941],"tags":[761972,23201,26451,27361,23161],"industry":[],"product":[421922],"class_list":["post-2943743","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","tag-art","tag-cartographic-design","tag-cartography","tag-design","tag-maps","product-arcgis"],"acf":{"short_description":"How can you ready your map for Halloween?","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Five days of Halloween<\/em><\/h2>\n

Day 3<\/h3>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

What is that you see in your map? Hmm… you better investigate.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

ONE:<\/strong> Symbolize your water, roads, and land layers.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2943753,"id":2943753,"title":"back drop","filename":"01backdrop.png","filesize":2590293,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/01backdrop.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis\/mapping\/shades-in-a-map\/01backdrop","alt":"","author":"4551","description":"","caption":"","name":"01backdrop","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":2943743,"date":"2025-10-17 16:48:43","modified":"2025-10-17 16:49:06","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1987,"height":1538,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/01backdrop-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/01backdrop.png","medium-width":337,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/01backdrop.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":594,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/01backdrop.png","large-width":1395,"large-height":1080,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/01backdrop-1536x1189.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1189,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/01backdrop.png","2048x2048-width":1987,"2048x2048-height":1538,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/01backdrop-601x465.png","card_image-width":601,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/01backdrop-1395x1080.png","wide_image-width":1395,"wide_image-height":1080}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Two:<\/strong> Select the land segments and find that shade.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2943755,"id":2943755,"title":"Map skull","filename":"02skull.png","filesize":2417822,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/02skull.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis\/mapping\/shades-in-a-map\/02skull","alt":"","author":"4551","description":"","caption":"","name":"02skull","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":2943743,"date":"2025-10-17 16:52:08","modified":"2025-10-17 16:53:21","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1993,"height":1537,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/02skull-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/02skull.png","medium-width":338,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/02skull.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":592,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/02skull.png","large-width":1400,"large-height":1080,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/02skull-1536x1185.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1185,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/02skull.png","2048x2048-width":1993,"2048x2048-height":1537,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/02skull-603x465.png","card_image-width":603,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/02skull-1400x1080.png","wide_image-width":1400,"wide_image-height":1080}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Three:<\/strong> If you dare, maybe add some extra details.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2943757,"id":2943757,"title":"Scary Map Skull","filename":"03skull-scaled.png","filesize":1552468,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/03skull-scaled.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis\/mapping\/shades-in-a-map\/03skull","alt":"","author":"4551","description":"","caption":"","name":"03skull","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":2943743,"date":"2025-10-17 16:54:50","modified":"2025-10-17 16:55:27","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":2560,"height":1978,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/03skull-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/03skull-scaled.png","medium-width":338,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/03skull-scaled.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":593,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/03skull-scaled.png","large-width":1398,"large-height":1080,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/03skull-1536x1187.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1187,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/03skull-2048x1583.png","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":1583,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/03skull-602x465.png","card_image-width":602,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/03skull-1398x1080.png","wide_image-width":1398,"wide_image-height":1080}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Shades in a map, indeed.<\/p>\n

Follow along for other Halloween ideas<\/p>\n

Day 1 Mountain Veins<\/a><\/p>\n

Day 2 Ethereal Mist<\/a><\/p>\n"}],"authors":[{"ID":4551,"user_firstname":"Wesley","user_lastname":"Jones","nickname":"Wesley Jones","user_nicename":"wesjones","display_name":"Wes Jones","user_email":"WJones@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2018-03-02 00:16:10","user_description":"What time is it? 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