Images appear different in processing applications

I posted this in digital darkroom as well, but thought someone here may be able

to help me.

Whenever I shoot images in either raw or jpeg and open them in DPP, Zoombrowser

and Elements they look entirely different. The images look identical in DPP and

Zoombrowser, however they look underexposed and much grainier in Photoshop

Elements. This is during the initial opening of the images with no post-

processing yet.

Is there something I'm missing when opening them in Elements? These images

truly look entirely different in both of these applications.

Thanks in advance for any insight, Glenn

DPP is designed to work with EOS files. That is, it can read camera parameters such as WB,

colorspace, picture style, saturation, etc., and open these settings as defaults. 3rd party

software are unable to read Canon software tags and thus the difference in appearance.

If you always use the same settings, you could set defaults on some 3rd party apps to your

liking.

Personally I prefer DPP for the above reasons. RAW files simply look better with fewer

clicks. ACR is nice but requires a load of adjustments to arrive at where DPP starts...

You can set DPP to automatically export to PS once the initial conversion is done. That is if

you think you need further tweaks

And why is it pictures look very different when I preview them with the internal windows viewer and open them in PS?

Is this also due to some configuration of PS?

thanks Jakob