Issues in Lightroom 3 when using the converted RAW file

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Long time lurker, first thread so be gentle

I’m a total newbie, I’ve just picked up lightroom3 after using the Canon supplied processor for what seems like an age. My PP usually only consists of a tweak to WB, contrast and maybe a little something to make the images more vibrant, the images are then exported as jpegs. Here’s the issue – I’m converting the PP RAW files to jpeg, they are fine, a direct comparison with the RAW as you’d expect, but, when I upload to, say, create a photobook or to order a large print all the vibrancy of the image is lost, the images becomes muted, dull. The clarity is still there, the images are sharp they are just dull. Last night I was creating a photobook in the website downloaded software, on one half of the screen were the images I’d imported to the software, on the other half was the book I was creating, even though both the images were “in” the software the difference in the colours was totally evident....when I was dropping the images on to the book pages they instantly became dull. I initially thought it was down to poor calibration of my screen but seeing the 2 sets of images differentlyon the same screen surely suggests the problem is something else? This has happened on several occasions, it’s not unique to this particular website, I’ve had this issue when ordering prints off Photobox and when ordering A1 size canvas prints of other sites and with some other photobook websites. My only direct comparison between images process in LR3 and in the Canon software has been with Photobox, I have used their service for images PP’d in both, the LR3 PP’d images were muted, the Canon ones were fine.

Is this an issue with my operating system (XP on PC) or the websites I’m using or am I doing something wrong in LR3 in the export?

Any advice greatly received

Cheers

Marvin
 
What colour profile are you saving the images in when using lightroom?
 
You need to set the profile as sRGB when exporting in LR. If you leave it by default I believe it will use ProPhoto which is a lot larger. In this case as many browsers do not support colour management, the profile in JPEG will be just ignored and the whole image treated like it was in sRGB colour space and it is the reason the colours become muted.
 
Thanks guys, I’m assuming, rightly or wrongly that you are both referring to the same thing?

Will the colour profile be on the export page, the page where you set the image quality? If it is, then I have probably left the default setting. I'll take a look tonight (currently at work, stealth checking the forum)

Thanks

Marvin
 
Yes.. in the export dialog. File Settings: Colour Space: sRGB
 
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