Andy,
Thank you for your comments, they are appreciated too.
Ian
Iron Horse
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Lovely work Ian a pleasure to play, many thanks
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As I said before another fine addition to the Links library
If anyone wants the official scorecard it is available at https://ironhorsegolfclub.com/golf-course/scorecard/
If anyone wants the official scorecard it is available at https://ironhorsegolfclub.com/golf-course/scorecard/
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Played 36 holes today (2 different machines)
The course plays very well (I found too much sand for my liking
)
The only thing I could say is for my taste the intensity of the green in the grass is perhaps a tad too much.
Des
The course plays very well (I found too much sand for my liking
)The only thing I could say is for my taste the intensity of the green in the grass is perhaps a tad too much.
Des
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Des,
You must have the same colour sensitivity as Ron Weel. Ron tells me that the textures I use for the courses, from Sugarloaf onwards are too intense.
I work with APCD on my Lenovo laptop and use a Lenovo All-in-one to test play and for reference. If I have Links open on both units with the same course the colours are slightly different. I have tried to make both machine the same by tweaking the colours, but have not been successful.
I do try to make the textures similar to what I "see" from photos of the course, but that can be difficult as photos from different sources can differ.
Is there a way to calibrate a monitor to a certain standard?
Ian
You must have the same colour sensitivity as Ron Weel. Ron tells me that the textures I use for the courses, from Sugarloaf onwards are too intense.
I work with APCD on my Lenovo laptop and use a Lenovo All-in-one to test play and for reference. If I have Links open on both units with the same course the colours are slightly different. I have tried to make both machine the same by tweaking the colours, but have not been successful.
I do try to make the textures similar to what I "see" from photos of the course, but that can be difficult as photos from different sources can differ.
Is there a way to calibrate a monitor to a certain standard?
Ian
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Ian,
I would not be surprised, I have seen courses Ron has been involved with.
I have a mixture of notebooks and desktops so see a lot of variation, I have tried to adjust my desktops to try and get them and the notebooks reasonably close, the machines with integrated screens tend to have less colour intensity. Given the nature of your Lenovo's I would expect them to be similar to each other. I tried your course on a notebook and a desktop. The notebook I used is an Acer and to be honest, with colours, it is pretty good and what I have tried to adjust the other monitors to, hence why I did my second test on it. The course was still a little too intense on it.
There are professional tools but they are outside our scope. There are colour calibration tools you can download and use, Windows I think has some. However often on integrated systems you have limited adjustment capability, I expect this to be especially the case with Intel Integrated graphics.
You may find some information specific to your machines and what you can do with them on Lenovo's web site, I have had no experience with them.
Given I have limited interest in colour calibration, I wanted to just take the intensity out of it on the desktops and with limited scope to change my notebooks, Acer & Asus, I have tried to match my desktops to the notebooks as much as I can. My LG monitors are more a challenge than my HPs - the HPs are professional series monitors the LGs are just consumer monitors. I've made the monitors better, but they are not perfect. I still am tweaking the desktops to this day.
One thing I have done on my notebooks is replaced the inbuilt Windows Night Light program with one called Lightbulb, this allows me to set the daytime and night time colour temperature and brightness levels, in software. This may just tweak your machines enough, and in my opinion is superior to Night light in any case, especially as it allows for day time settings.
That is where I started on all systems by standardising the Colour temperature and then tweaking that, on the desktops I can also change the RGB settings on each monitor and with more tweaking possible it means I continue to adjust, the LGs give me the most trouble.
I would not be surprised, I have seen courses Ron has been involved with.
I have a mixture of notebooks and desktops so see a lot of variation, I have tried to adjust my desktops to try and get them and the notebooks reasonably close, the machines with integrated screens tend to have less colour intensity. Given the nature of your Lenovo's I would expect them to be similar to each other. I tried your course on a notebook and a desktop. The notebook I used is an Acer and to be honest, with colours, it is pretty good and what I have tried to adjust the other monitors to, hence why I did my second test on it. The course was still a little too intense on it.
There are professional tools but they are outside our scope. There are colour calibration tools you can download and use, Windows I think has some. However often on integrated systems you have limited adjustment capability, I expect this to be especially the case with Intel Integrated graphics.
You may find some information specific to your machines and what you can do with them on Lenovo's web site, I have had no experience with them.
Given I have limited interest in colour calibration, I wanted to just take the intensity out of it on the desktops and with limited scope to change my notebooks, Acer & Asus, I have tried to match my desktops to the notebooks as much as I can. My LG monitors are more a challenge than my HPs - the HPs are professional series monitors the LGs are just consumer monitors. I've made the monitors better, but they are not perfect. I still am tweaking the desktops to this day.
One thing I have done on my notebooks is replaced the inbuilt Windows Night Light program with one called Lightbulb, this allows me to set the daytime and night time colour temperature and brightness levels, in software. This may just tweak your machines enough, and in my opinion is superior to Night light in any case, especially as it allows for day time settings.
That is where I started on all systems by standardising the Colour temperature and then tweaking that, on the desktops I can also change the RGB settings on each monitor and with more tweaking possible it means I continue to adjust, the LGs give me the most trouble.
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Hi,
I like playing with vibrant colors and I also like using ReShade.
But the most important thing for me is being able to see the grid when putting. There are many courses where
the greens are simply too bright for me. When I have to play those courses, I switch my monitor to black and white
for putting.
For example, I have an OLED monitor and yes, the left side looks different on every monitor.
For this course, everything is fine for me, and you'll never be able to please everyone.
Cheers, Titus
I like playing with vibrant colors and I also like using ReShade.
But the most important thing for me is being able to see the grid when putting. There are many courses where
the greens are simply too bright for me. When I have to play those courses, I switch my monitor to black and white
for putting.
For example, I have an OLED monitor and yes, the left side looks different on every monitor.
For this course, everything is fine for me, and you'll never be able to please everyone.
Cheers, Titus
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For me, the greens are only slightly over intensive. Where I really see it is with tees, fairways & rough.
Des
Des
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Ian on Windows 11 there is display calibration in System => Display => Color Management.
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Des and Titus,
Thank you for your replies.
With the color management I made both machines the same setting. (sRGB IEc61966-2.1 (default))
To me they are the same color? But I don't trust my eyes any more:
Thank you Des for the link to color management - if they look the same to all? 
Ian
Thank you for your replies.
With the color management I made both machines the same setting. (sRGB IEc61966-2.1 (default))
To me they are the same color? But I don't trust my eyes any more:
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Ian