I am mapping mountainous areas in QGIS 2.4 and would like to recreate the beautiful blended colour relief found, for example, in the map shown at http://maps.kartoza.com/Boosmansbos/.
While I am able to copy the RGB values of the colours from the key at the side of the map, and map them into my own elevation bands, I am unable to recreate the 'blended' effect between the elevation bands as QGIS produces a 'hard' line between elevation levels.
I'm using the basic mode I suppose which is the menu at the top, Raster – Terrain Analysis – Relief, then mapping the colour bands that way. I thought I might be able to get a 'blend' by overlapping the elevations slightly in each band, but it doesn't seem to let me do that.
Best Answer
The QGIS training manual shows how to style rasters using a color ramp:
After that, use the hillshade tool to compute a hillshade raster and set the hillshade's layer blending mode to e.g. multiply to blend both layers together. (Hillshade has to be on top in that case.)