A cross-correlation coefficient of complex fields has been investigated for diagnosing spatiotemporal synchronization behavior of coupled complex fields. We have also generalized the subsystem synchronization way established in low-dimensional systems to one- and two-dimensional Ginzburg-Landau equations. By applying the indicator to examine the synchronization behavior of coupled Ginzburg-Landau equations, it is shown that our subsystem approach may be of better synchronization performance than the linear feedback method. For the linear feedback Ginzburg-Landau equation, the nonidentical system exhibits generalized synchronization characteristics in both amplitude and phase. However, the nonidentical subsystem may exhibit complete-like synchronization properties. The difference between complex fields for driven and response systems gives a linear scaling with the change of their parameter difference.