A lot of cartographers have a love/hate relationship with label halos. On one hand they can be an essential technique for improving label readability, especially against complex background layers...
It’s been a long time since I last blogged here. Let’s just blame that on the amount of changes going into QGIS 3.0 and move on… One new feature which landed in QGIS 3.0 today is a processi...
http://nyalldawson.net/2017/02/new-map-coloring-algorithms-in-qgis-3-0/
In my last post I explored some of the new colour related features available in QGIS 2.6. At the end of that post I hinted at the possibility of creating QGIS colour schemes using python. Let’s...
http://nyalldawson.net/2014/09/creating-custom-colour-schemes-in-pyqgis/
With one month left before the release of QGIS 2.6, it’s time to dive into some of the new features it will bring… starting with colours. Working with colours is a huge part of cartography. I...
http://nyalldawson.net/2014/09/whats-new-in-qgis-2-6-tons-of-colour-improvements/
Quick poll… what’s the most frustrating thing about GIS? Fighting with colour plotters? Trying to remember GDAL command line syntax? MapInfo’s new ribbon interface* ? All of the above? Wron...
http://nyalldawson.net/2014/05/colour-shortcuts-in-qgis-2-4/
As a quick follow-up to my last post on colour preview modes for the print composer in QGIS 2.4, this feature has also been added to the main map canvas window! Now it’s even easier to adjus...
http://nyalldawson.net/2014/05/and-now-colour-preview-modes-in-qgis-map-canvas/
Since QGIS 2.4 is nearing feature freeze it seems like a good time to start exploring some of the great new features in this release. So, let’s get started with my most recent addition to QGIS�...
http://nyalldawson.net/2014/05/colour-blindness-and-grayscale-previews-in-qgis-2-4/
Continuing on from part 1, another feature I’ve recently pushed to QGIS is the ability to control the hue, saturation and colour of a raster layer. This builds off the excellent work done by ...
http://nyalldawson.net/2013/04/coming-soon-in-qgis-part-2-color-control-for-raster-layers/