🚀 go-pugleaf

I think I've got this situation down pat. I've spent oodles of hours with this same problem. The images look great on my 27" color TV, but they look terrible on my computer. Part of this is the color gamut issues. I think (don't quote me on this) the TV's color gamut is small, and therefore easier for your images to look good. On your computer, it can show a lot more colors, and therefore easier to look bad. On my computer, my RAW images look very deep, overly saturated when brought in to Photoshop, almost like I shot film with a heavy polarizer on the lens. Someone told me when viewing RAW files, they're going to be dark and contrasty, that's all there is to it. WHen you convert to jpg, they'll look better. But they still look somewhat 'fuzzy'or out of focus.

What I've learned to do (at least so far)with the Photoshop RAW plug in, is to get your color temperature right first. If you don't do that, "ain't nothin' comin' out right". I try to get the people to look just a bit on the cool side at this point. Once the temp is correct, then play with all the controls on a test image. See how each control alters the image. The tint is especially important, and it's too bad that just a little touch can take the image from good color to bad color. It's much too sensitive. Try not to move the contrast up too much if you can avoid it. On the saturation, you now get to warm up the skin tones by taking that up a bit.

The fuzziness is just part of the image being displayed on a monitor. Some of that goes away when you enlarge the image with the navigator, but at the default screen size (about a 4x6 image or so), they look fuzzy. I've found them to look fuzzy at every other enlargement.

I hope this helps.