While hillshading a DEM/DTM in QGIS is fairly straightforward, the result is often not what you want to use in a map. Fortunately, achieving a neat, smooth result is not so tough. My aim for this procedure was to create a visually pleasing hillshade for use as a base layer for other mapping products (somewhat like OpenTopoMap). We 're gonna need
- QGIS 3.18 (any version >= 3.10)
- SAGA 2.3.2