Image lighting problem

[Anonymous]

I am hoping someone can help me with one major issue I am having or can direct me to where I may possibly find an answer. Attached is an image done in max, and only “auto levels” applied to it in Photoshop. On my machine it looks great, nice soft shadows and you can see the details in the darker areas . If I print or move the image to another machine or upload to the web (as is the case here) it look dark and harsh can’t see the details and some of the shadows are even black. I have been back and forth with this issue with Dell and Nvidia to no solution. This is not a max specific problem on this machine, all of my graphic programs are giving me the same thing on this machine. I have adjusted the monitor as best I can and uploaded the latest drivers and looked at the software for any problems that I could spot. I even got a Spyder Color calibration device, but I still have the same problem, any thoughts?

This is machine is approximately 10 month old I am running on a 32 bit Dell Precision Intel Core 2 2.66ghz, running Window XP pro, Service pack 3 with 3GB Ram and an Nvidia Quadro FX 550 Graphic card. Please let me know if you have any questions on my set up I have not answered here. I need to find out what this problem is and solve it because right now this machine is no god to me as a graphic machine.