First, thanks both of you for the comments.
Sprocky, no need to apologize for your English. Both of your comments are pretty much as I see it. The blue tinge in the original makes is hard to get rid of comepletely, but I will reduce the saturation a bit more for the green grass/Spring pic. Autumn - kinda same problem, the blue makes turning the grass brown very hard; if I remove it all, the grass loses definition. I'm thinking that the airbase might be a bit more watered/irrigated than the surrounding area overall. Both views still need adjusting, autumn more than spring in my opinion.
Like you, I was surprised to find that Google had deliberately "pixelated" the Leeuwarden AB area - it's not "just blurry". That's a deliberate distortion and I can only assume/guess that it was done as a result of a request/demand by Dutch MoD for security reasons. (There was some talk here in the US that MS Virtual Earth was goig to do that to coverage of US bases - then First Amendment lawyers got involved. Shrug.) So I had to choose between Yahoo and Virtual Earth satellite servers instead of Google, which I usually use. Each server has a distinctly different color caste - and it changes based on when the picture was taken (time of day and season), what the weather was like and even the angle of view of the satellite to the area. Anyway, add to all that the fact that I adjust color using Photoshop on one monitor and then run FSX on another to see the results and that accounts for some of the mismatch with the surrounding area(s).
Thanks again for the critique. You confirmed I may be losing my mind but my eyesight isn't completely gone.
John, yeah it was a "MS feature" that lots of people commented on when FSX first came out. Actually, those textures are "my default" - using UT Europe for the landclass but still very brown. If you remember when FSX first came out, large swaths of central Canada plains also had "desertification"/a huge brown tinge outside the cities - even in summer.
Again, thanks for the comments.
