[Qgis-user] Convert an Ascii raster to Image

[Siki Zoltan]

Dear Lene,

1st solution
Open ASCII GRID as a raster layer and in the context menu of the layer 
select Save as...

2nd solution
From the Raster menu select Conversion -> Translate (Convert format),
select input and output raster and format.

This way you get a single band raster which is not the most beautiful 
as a background layer. You had better to make a color relief (Raster menu -> 
Analysis -> DEM) and a hillshade. Use blending of the color relief and 
hillshade to get a nice terrain background in QGIS 2.

Regards,
Zoltan

On Sun, 19 Jan 2014, Lene Fischer wrote:

> Hi,
> This might be easy - but right now I´m "blind"
>
> Have a large 1.4 Gb Ascii raster image covering DTM Mexico.
> I want to save it as an image - no data just to use as a background.
>
> How is this done?
>
> Regards
> Lene Fischer
>
>
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