Canon's DPP-- Recipes are Dark ?

[sarahsmall]

Does anyone know much about batch color/tone adjustments by copying and pasting recipes? This is my goal with the software, but it appears those images for which I've created recipes for in DPP, after being batched and opened up to check in PS or online, they always look darker and crunchier than they did in the software. Jpegs conversions look much truer in PS. Do you know of any tricks to get what you see more accurately when making recipes before batching? Any other software to create recipes and batch .cr2 files that I should know of? Anyone else have similar problems?

I am also curious if you know any other great Canon forums, like D1scussion, but for Canon users, not Nikon users (I am an X-Nikon user and now must relearn everything)- I just signed on witht this forum- Is it the main one?

Thanks for any advice you may have!
Best to you,

Sarah :) :)

[Longwatcher]

there are several factors that affect how the photos show up in photoshop from DPP such as
- Monitor calibration and settings
- When you bring the image into PS do you use embedded profile, convert or ignore?
- What mode in PS are you viewing the pictures in?
- You may be taking dark pictures

Which version of PS are you using?

If I remember Capture 1 and bibble? also have RAW conversion programs as does Adobe's DNG converter. DNG is free so you might want to download that from adobe and see what the results from converting CR2 to DNG are. note that you will probably lose some metadata during the conversion (although the image should look the same).

Just some quick thoughts.

[sarahsmall]

there are several factors that affect how the photos show up in photoshop from DPP such as
- Monitor calibration and settings
- When you bring the image into PS do you use embedded profile, convert or ignore?
- What mode in PS are you viewing the pictures in?
- You may be taking dark pictures

Which version of PS are you using?

If I remember Capture 1 and bibble? also have RAW conversion programs as does Adobe's DNG converter. DNG is free so you might want to download that from adobe and see what the results from converting CR2 to DNG are. note that you will probably lose some metadata during the conversion (although the image should look the same).

Just some quick thoughts.
I wanted to say thank you for your reply 3 weeks back... about recipees being dark. I relized I never responded, as I was just leaving town. thanks very much,
sarah

[Longwatcher]

I wanted to say thank you for your reply 3 weeks back... about recipees being dark. I relized I never responded, as I was just leaving town. thanks very much,
sarah

I am presuming that my advice helped.
In which case you are very welcome as that is the number one reason I like hanging out on this forum. Number 2 is of course the great people.

I am curious though what the problem turned out to be?