Still images are getting brighter?

I have still images, plus some vid clips, that I am putting into a project. I have made my adjustments in Bridge/Photoshop CS3 as far as resizing and adjusting the brightness and tones. After I import them into Premiere Pro, and place them on the timeline, they are brighters, almost to the point of blowing out the highlights...any ideas of what is causing this. I am sure it is something simple but I haven't found it yet. I even went back into bridge and adjusted the pics again, and they have gotten brighter again.
Thanks...
Jimmy

Don't change them in Bridge, do them in Photoshop then import them into Premiere.

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The same result after rendering and exporting the sequence.
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First of all, I stopped watching the video when it says a second has 60 milliseconds. That is not true. And it is not relevant.
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Well...
I wrote in my previous post that I tried creating a sequence from my photo and I got the same blurry results.
I used PAL because that is the tutorial I found.
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I don't mind resizing the images, 4288 x 2848 is too large anyhow, it is just the default output from my camera.
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