Photoshop just doesn't look as good

[dakotah_jackson]

I use the Canon Digital Photo Professional for working with the RAW images.

After I get it set and before transferring it to Photoshop it looks very good.

Once in Photoshop it seems to have lost its pizzaz and doesn't look as good.

 

Why the difference in the two?

[sheldonnalos]

Color space. You have likely taken a sRGB image and opened it as an Adobe RBG image, which will kill the perceived color saturation. Double check what color space the original image was saved in and make sure that Photoshop matches up.

[mars c]

Photoshop does not interpolate the image to your monitor's resoluton, unlike the DPP or even the windows picture browser.

 

You have to view the image at 100% magnification so that you'll see the true resolution of your image in Photoshop.

[suman]

I believ it is because of pixel interpolatation. Pictures in DPP looks very sharp with fancy vivid look, transfer to PS and bahm! I don't think colorspace has anything to do with it since mine is set properly and I noticed the same. I have a feeling that DPP use some sort of virtual sharpenning to the image to look it better on screen.

[phil_marion]

Most people when using DPP initially have no idea what color management is about. I too had no idea how I needed to set the DPP preferences to. PS is a color managed program - DPP is not. This was an initial source of annoyance, disillusion and bewilderment.

 

Next step - calibrate the monitor.

[steve_dunn2]

<cite>PS is a color managed program - DPP is not.</cite>

 

<p>DPP, at least version 3, offers a choice of five colour spaces, and will embed the appropriate colour profile into output files if you want it to.</p>

[roger_smith4]

"DPP, at least version 3, offers a choice of five colour spaces, and will embed the appropriate colour profile into output files if you want it to."

 

Does it also display correctly on screen?