Help with the way my computer opens RAW files, to do with colour settings I think

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I have not been happy the colour settings of my photos when i look at them on my computer so after spending ages messing around with the settings trying to make them look realistic I decided to buy a Spyder Monitor calibrator.

However I am still having the same problem. I will try to explain it better.

On my computer I have Adobe CS3 with Photoshop and I use Bridge to look at my photos and Camera Raw to edit them.
I use a Nikon D60.

When I preview the photos, the colours look good while it is still loading, but after it finishes loading the photo it changes and looks unrealistic. Then I have to go through all my photos and change the settings to make them look good and realistic.

So then I set the camera to take a RAW photo and Jpg copy, and then when I look at the immages they never look the same and the colours always look better on the JPG. If I have not changed anything to the RAW settings should they not look exactly the same when I preview them? I have been trying for ages now to change all the settings I can think of and I still cant get the RAW photos to look as good as the JPG ones with out me having to edit them first.

Does anyone have any ideas?
could it be something to do with colour profiles for my camera or raw photos?

Thanks, Nicos
 
The camera applies in-camera processing when it saves a JPEG, including boosting colour and sharpening. My raws look slightly dull in comparison to the JPEGs but I have access to the raw data which is what I want. Perhaps you should look at making some form of action to batch process your files on import.
 
Cheers that makes sence. However I have tried looking at my raw photos on another computer they look alot better and closser to the Jpg copies than they do when I look at them on my computer. So I am sure there is something wrong with one of the settings on my computer. Any more ideas ?
Cheers,
Nicos
 
What software are you using? Is it the same on both PCs?
 
On my computer I am using Adobe Bridge, Photoshop CS3 and camera RAW. The other computer where all the Raw immages have more realistic and better colour I was just using the standard Windows Picture Viewer to preview the Raw Photos.

On the Camera Raw program there is a setting for Camera Profile,
ACR 4.4, Adobe standard, Camera Standard, Camera Landscape etc.... They all produce very different immages, I do not know which to use, I would like to use the one which is closest to the original immage, so that I can make the changes.
The more I am finding out the more cofusing it seems to get. But i want to get the settings perfect before I spend all my time editing the photos.
thanks
 
The viewer is just using the installed codec to read the embedded jpeg inside the raw. Thus it contains the in caera settings.

When opening the raw in photoshop through ACR etc you get to see the pure file not the embedded jpeg.

So the other pc was viewing a jpeg preview of the raw not the actual raw data, which is duller and needs to be worked on.
 
cheers now i understand that!
but what would you recommend I do with the camera profile settings? should I use the one I like the most. I think I like different ones for different immages, but I just want the one that makes the least changes from the original.

Or should i change the profile for different photos?
 
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