I think what you are saying is the photos don't have punch, look a little lifeless?
If so, this is not an unusual impression.
Flexcolor is designed to provide a very raw, linear appearance to the files initially. The purpose of Flexcolor's treatment is to allow a very natural and benign starting place for you to customize exactly how you would like your files to look, rather than an "auto" approach where things are decided for you.
There are ample tools for you to customize - curves (including individual color curves), levels, selective (somewhat) color adjustments, saturation, shadow recovery, and sharpening.
Once you play around with the tools and accomplish the appearance you prefer, you can save this as a setup (file>setup) which can be recalled and applied to an individual file or as many files as you would like at one time in a batch.
If you shoot tethered, you can select your custom setup and each file will appear with your custom setup already applied automatically as you shoot.
If you import files from a CF card, you can apply your custom setup on the fly as the files are imported, so they come into the software already looking the way you want.
Flexcolor (and Phocus) is a very customizable program. You're the operator...Once you get the hang of it, you'll see you can accomplish whatever you like.
Steve Hendrix
