Adobe Photoshop is the graphic arts industry standard software for raster image manipulation. Cartographers can also use Photoshop to create effective colored shaded relief for maps.

One important advantage in using Photoshop to create shaded relief is that of familiarity. Most cartographers and graphic artists have Photoshop on their desktop and are skilled in using it for working with images. It is an extremely powerful image-editing tool and a skilled cartographer can make many enhancements to a shaded relief map image once it is rendered.
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The content of data production in 3D city model is 3D Model Data (3DMD) including Digital Elevation Model (DEM), Digital Orthoimage Map (DOM) and objects (artificial and natural objects). DEM and DOM should be produced according to the traditional and mature criterion. 3D city model data production based on aerial remote sensing and 2DGIS should include three aspects: aerial survey 3D geometry model building, field texture collecting and building, terrain sight building and CAD model building for parts of objects.
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