Blend modes give me the sort of feeling like when I was a kid and all these grown-ups were doing this confounded separated finger trick and I know they aren’t really ripping their finger off but for crying out loud how are they doing it then I crack the code and the whole world becomes at once, yes, a little smaller, but also ripe with new wonder at the tangible accessibility of illusion and dexterous slight of hand.
I’m sure you feel exactly the same way.
0:00 Meaningless chit chat.
0:15 How to get to the Map viewer Beta.
0.30 Setting basemap to (daytime) World Imagery (which, eh-hem, has been recently saturated and bumpified).
0:38 Adding a tiled-up NASA Earth at Night layer from Living Atlas.
1:45 Applying the Overlay blend mode.
2:30 Beholding the marvel of an x-ray vision perspective of an Earth at Night.
3:35 Changing a map’s background color, yes!
4:05 Back to rambling about how cool it looks. What a time to be alive, etc.
Love, John
Very cool! It even distracted my kid from playing Minecraft for a few moments. Now the big question that’s on everyone’s mind – when is blending coming to ArcGIS Pro?
First of all: John, another great piece of advice! Like!
And for Chris: Blending in Pro can be done with Python – as there are nice implementations of blending available forl the Python Image Library (PIL). I’ve got a Raster Function Template that does it for two RGB(A) Raster Layers (but Raster Layers only). Similar a simple Alpha chanel RFT can help you to just fade a raster a little different than just setting it to transparent.
Let me know if you are interested …
Guenter