Problems with dark colours importing photos in iMovie 11

Hello,
I have a problem importing photos from iPhoto Library 11 to iMovies 11 in order to build a video HD 1080p.
When iMovie creates the snapshot of the photo, happens that dark photo's colours (above all black) appears ginned with low resolution and, even after the rendering in 1080p, wathing the video via apple TV or in Blu ray disk, this unliky effect on black colour is rilevant
Thanks

As a Test:
Hold down the option (or alt) key key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Create Library'
Import a few pics into this new, blank library. Is the Problem repeated there?
Regards
TD

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Import a few pics into this new, blank library. Is the Problem repeated there?
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To be clearer, I am not working in CMYK for image enhancing at all, but windows RGB in photoshop, which is darker than working CMYK or Monitor RGB. I just use the CMYK colour scale in the photoshop colour picker window to see what values are around the object.
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I agree that colour values will show on a screen, but the effect of the shadow should be smooth and not clearly visible with an edge?
http://www.ideo-sync.co.uk/p110741.jpg
also p110741.tif
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