Color Casts, Bright Photos, Etc - HELP

[Dusen]

Been doing my own personal photography for a while now, but I am consistently frustrated with how my photos appear in photoshop compared to on the web. They're either dark or washed out, as it appears, depending on what day I'm working with the photos. No rhyme or reason.

This is, of course, shooting from RAW and convering in Adobe Camera Raw or Phase1 - with the 'auto' settings on the camera, everything turns out all right.

This is not a question about curves or how to white balance a photo (At least I don't think it is), I've learned what I feel is basic skills here.

It's simply when it's displayed on the LCD it looks drastically different from in my iMac, or any other computer.

I have read almost EVERY link and google reference about color management, 'save for web' functions, working color space etc. I understand that different monitors have different gamma levels and it is almost impossible to make a photo look great on all monitors.

But, looking at the photos on say, the msn page or a paysite, it is possible to have it look great on most.

Note, I am using a Samsung LCD. I have 'calibrated' the screen more times than I can remember. Adobe Gamma, video card program, monitor program,Tried almost everything short of ordering one of those MacBeth color calibration devices.

Is there something I'm missing here? Should I really be going back to CRT for my good-quality photo processing? A great CRT is fairly inexpensive nowadays.

[SilentKnight]

Bump for ya'...

[After Shock Media]

How about show a few pictures so we can see what you are talking about.