Styling raster data

You also have many choices when styling raster data in QGIS Desktop. There is a different choice of renderers for raster datasets, which are as follows:

• Multiband color: This is for rasters with multiple bands. It allows you to choose the band combination that you prefer.
• Paletted / Unique values: This is for singleband rasters with an included color table. It is likely that it will be chosen by QGIS automatically, if this is the case.
• Singleband gray: This allows a singleband raster or a single band of a multiband raster to be styled with either a black-to-white or white-to-black color ramp. You can control contrast enhancement and how minimum and maximum values are determined.
• Singleband pseudocolor: This allows a singleband raster to be styled with a variety of color ramps and classification schemes.
• Hillshade: Used mainly against Digital Terrain Data, this function allows to you add hillshade relief to the layer by changing the angles/direction of sunlight.

The following is a screenshot of the Symbology tab of a raster file's Layer Properties, showing where the aforementioned style choices are located: