Newbie -- can someone suggest why my images look worse in JPEG using DPP

I'm using Digital Photoshop Professional (Canon software) to do some editing of images and after I edit the raw image, I think it looks decent, however when I save it to JPEG (in the highest quality possible, image quality "10"), it still comes out looking quite a bit less sharp than the edited raw image.

I understand that I lose some quality when going raw to JPEG naturally, but there must be something I am obviously goofing up because even the JPEG SCREENSHOT I take of the edited raw image (100kb) looks sharper than the 4.5MB JPEG I create from the edited raw image using DPP.

Any ideas? Please see links to see the difference in quality.

4.5 MB JPEG created from DPP raw image: http://tinypic.com/vie​w.php?pic=5trwxt&s=5

150 KB screenshot of edited raw image before conversion:
http://tinypic.com/vie​w.php?pic=fna0x&s=5

Thanks for your help!

They look the same to me. Post a link to the raw and the high resolution jpeg.

Most likely it's the way you're viewing the final jpeg that's making it look bad.

Try showing two 100% views -- in DPP you can go to 100% to get the screen shot and you can do that with the jpeg as well (get a screen shot).

I'm suggesting this because a 100% view is the most accurate way of judging fine detail sharpening.

Aside from that, your displays are at different sizes, which may affect the "perceived sharpness"...?

tonylong wrote in post #15919831
I'm suggesting this because a 100% view is the most accurate way of judging fine detail sharpening.

Not just "most", but rather "only"