Photos look good in CS6 but grainy in other programs

I am using CS6 and doing various editing on photos. They are raw files initially and once I am finished with the editing and flattening I save them as .png files. The photos look great when I view them in photoshop yet when I look at them in Bridge or other programs (Windows), they look grainy and the colors appear muted. Any ideas on what may be the cause?

the colors appear muted.
Did you embed the profile?
Why png anyway?
As for the grainyness:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/5219275#5219275

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