Picture Style Differs In Camera vs Computer

I've been using my 60d for a few years now with no problems. However on my last shoot the images are drastically different when viewed on my camera's LCD vs on my computer. I shot everything RAW using a custom neutral color profile, same as I always have. In camera everything looks good and neutral, low saturation, even shadows and highlights, but after downloading the images they appear high in contrast and saturation with very dark shadows.
Even when viewing the images in the EOS utility they look correct like they do in camera, but after downloading they still become dark and saturated. I've attached a screenshot that shows the difference between the image in the EOS Utility vs Finder (sorry for the small image size but that's as large as EOS Utility will show the image). Any idea as to what's going on here and if I can get the downloaded images to look like they were in camera?

AdamRosenberg wrote:
Thanks Skirball!
So you're saying that there will always be a difference between the JPG and RAW, and I understand that. But you also agree that the difference I'm seeing is way more drastic than that. The contrast is way too high for a normal RAW image.
Yes, it seems higher than normal, but:
1) The image on the right looks heavily under contrasted and under saturated, at least on my monitor. If your in-camera custom settings has reduced these (i.e. moved contrast and saturation to less than 0), then this would be expected. If you want your RAW photo to look that way simply move down contrast and sat. Better than contrast though is to manipulate the highlights and shadows.
2) In really contrasty situations (e.g. direct sunlight, as this looks to be), the RAW files can actually look more contrasty than the jpg because the jpg has made adjustments to lower highlights and boost shadows. As I mention above, you can adjust this to the RAW as well.
One thing I think you should take away from this is: use your shadow and highlights adjustments. They're the first two things I go to. The highlight and shadow recovery is why I shoot in RAW, it's why I use a full frame sensor. The recovery is awesome on a full frame. It still makes me smile when I pull detail out of a blank white highlight.
As to your specific issue, it's hard to diagnose because I'm not familiar with EOS Utility. It's one of the three things I've mentioned in these posts, probably a combination of them:
You're comparing a JPG with reduced contrast/sat to the RAW
You're in a highly contrast situation
EOS Utility may be applying presets (namely contrast) to the RAW on import (check the contrast setting)
My solution would be to not even use EOS Utility. Download your files from your card, and open them directly in Photoshop (PS will use Adobe Raw Converter on import which will allow you to choose your shadows, highlights, contrast, sat, etc), or directly into Bridge. Compare how that looks. If you like the desaturated look of the photo on the right that is very easy to do, start with highlights and shadows.
And finally, my ultimate solution, is to buy Adobe Lightroom. I really, really, really try to not recommend that people just buy stuff to fix their problems. But Lightroom is a remarkable piece of software, and it's rather cheap these days. It makes all this discussion pointless. Open in RAW in Lightroom and shuffle sliders around until you're happy. Then just cut n paste those mods to the rest of the photos you took that day. Done.

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