[WIP] Ground texture mod

Originally Posted by philip.ed

Not midday, but IMHO these are roughly the colours I'd personally love to see

http://www.picturescolourlibrary.co....&query=1871414

sorry, the picture is rather blurred.

and this one looks nice too, although again it's not middday.

Please keep in mind that when you show a photograph (even if it was the right day time) and also this on a computer there are two effects combined:

The photograph in itself never shows the real colours. Only our brain makes us believe that these colours are the right ones as we when looking at the picture usually lack the comparison. If you hold the picture up right on the spot where it was taken at the same daytime and the same weather condition you would realize that the colours on the picture are in fact different and have a certain colour shift. This colour shift is inevitable in photography (I do myself quite a bit of photography since my childhood).

Your computer screen has a colour shift of its own. So even IF the photograph showed the right colours (what it doesn't) you still would see wrong colours on your computer screen.

Now in fact you have both effects combined. And I'd say it is highly unlikey that they compensate each other.

PS: When I talk about colour I also mean all the other effects like gamma etc. that go with colour.

[philip.ed]

Whilst I realise that the photos will never represent a perfect image, what is the solution? Go out and take samples of crop plants and grass, then go home and aim to translate that colour across in photoshop?
I think that the best solution is to give the people a representation, as near as possible, of how they imagine England to look like (either from past flying experiences, or from what they've seen whilst atop a relatively high hill).
Obviously, none of the pictures posted match perfectly, but an equilibrium can be attained which may not be far off reality. Indeed, one can tune their monitor to reach a different balance as well. No matter if Ali got the colours down to a tee, people would still see different results because their monitor isn't correctly calibrated.

I agree that photos will all vary, maybe to considerable degrees, but I can't see perfection being reached on purpose.