Loss of Image quality when processing RAW

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Would appreciate any help on this.

I have a Canon 60D and 10-22mm lens which I'm attempting some landscape shots.

I've been using Canon's utility programmes, Zoom browser and digital photo professional for my processing, generally a tweek here and there, nowt too much. The problem is, when I convert to Jpeg to upload, I'm losing most of the sharpness and the colours are darker afterwards.

I read this can be a problem from RAW to jpeg, but the image is really pretty
poor in comparison to the original RAW file.

I've tried to overcome this by going down the Photoshop CS5 route to process the image from RAW, but still noticing a significant loss in quality
afterwards, I have made sure it's in the highest quality setting when saving.

Can't think it's my monitor as the images look fine in photoshop but when saved to the windows folder I use to upload my Pics the quality's not there.

Thanks in advance.
 
You need to provide details of how you are exporting the image

Size, compression, colour space all affect this.
 
What method are you using to save? And what method are you using to view the images after?

i.e are you leaving at high resolution, clicking save as, jpeg, quality 12, and then viewing in microsoft picture viewer or similar?

Software like that compresses the file when you view it.

Or are you looking at it in lightroom or bridge and comparing the images in the preview section? Again, the images will be resampled and compressed to fit the preview viewing window.

I would suggest that the issue is to do with sharpening correctly for your output size. If you are simply viewing the images on screen, or on the web, then size them correctly for the website you are uploading to. I have this issue with facebook, when uploading model shots, they need to be sized correctly to match FB criteria, and they need additional sharpened, as facebook will compress them further upon upload.

Hope that helps, let us know exactly how you're saving, and viewing, and I'm sure someone can point you in the right direction
 
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