My suggestions would be to create a testing thingie (that's an official technical term).

I went on line and found a color sample image similar to the expensive printed ones and printed it on my printer. I glued it to a piece of foam board along with black and white and grey patches. Then I have the model hold it so I can get the whole thing in the frame and take a shot using the same light I'm going to shoot with. Then, in Photoshop or Lightroom or PaintshopPro, I use that to set my white balance. That's the first step to getting the skin to come out right.

It can get a lot more complicated, of course, there's a wonderful book called "Skin" that goes into wonderful detail on how to do the lighting as well as how to develop it afterward in photoshop. Best, of course, is to get the exposure right in the first place, and it looks like you are either letting the camera pick the white balance, or you've got it set on the wrong setting (I did most of a shoot once with it set for sunlight when I was indoors -- most could be fixed in photoshop, but the results would have been a lot better if I'd set it to incandescent lighting to start with).

you might also be running into the sRGB vs Adobe colorspace thing. If you put photos with Adobe colorspace up on the web, they will generally look washed out compared to an sRGB version of the same image. Supposedly, the Adobe colorspace is better for printing because it has a wider range, but the main thing I notice is that they don't look as good on the web. And my printer (and most printing shops) prefer sRGB anyway.


www.yourphototips.com/2008/08...-review/

www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials.htm

www.camerahobby.com/Digital_...lance.htm

Try shooting a bit under exposed. This will generally make the colors pop a bit more. Flat lighting, using a flash with the appropriate color balance will help. How were you shooting these?

i would in the future shoot a picture of this:

www.filmtools.com/maccol.html

and check the color balance to make sure it is neutral, then I would also check to see if you had mettered for 18% grey or shoot to 18 %grey card.

I would then check the histogram to see if the exposure was correct, and if not adjust the "kelvin" setting for correct color.