I know your comp monitor doesn't look the same as photo printed Pictures

[Dash1]

Please help, Is there a simple, fast, fool proof way to bridge the gap and see it on youe computer screen the way the print wil come out from the photo store or your home printer ?
[without fixing each shot munualy with photoshop or the likes..
A friend took some wedding shots that [he say] looks great on a screen but when
sent to be printed they all look baaad...

[guns1inger]

LCDs are especially bad for this because of the back lighting and odd contrast. But in all cases, what you need to do is calibrate your monitor to match your printer. Have a read of these

http://www.drycreekphoto.com/Learn/monitor_calibration.htm
http://www.dummies.com/WileyCDA/DummiesArticle/id-2506.html
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/321608.html

None of this negates the need to adjust your photographs for print if necessary, it just gives you a better idea of what they will look like.

[jtoolman2000]

HUGE Subject to discuss. Whole books have been written on this.

Basically you can create special calibrations between monitor and printer which will take a lot of testing and comparison. CRT Screens are infinitely superior for Image work. LCDs are not.

Custom printing profiles can cost several hundred $$$ and are only good for a specific printing paper printer and ink type. Only Artists who make a living at it can afford such profiles.

So the fact that your images look good in the screen but bad in printed form does not surprise me in the least.

Get yourself a $99 Epson R200 ( sometimes nuch less after rebates ) and some of their premium gloss or Semi gloss paper. Calibrate you monitor and output to print from Photoshop. You will get as good a print quality as anything I've seen. Just make sure you have chosen the highest settings for the specific paper you are using under the Advanced tab in the Epson interface.
There you can also adust color, contrast and brightness so it WILL match as close as possible what you are seeing on the screen inside Photoshop.

Remember that CRTs are better for this. Once you have a proper setting, you can save it as a "Profile" that can be loaded with the Epson interface when you are printing photographic images.

And lastly,,, you will NEVER achieve a perfect match between screen and paper. Screens are being lit from the back, paper relies on light bouncing off the dyes and reflecting the image back to your eyes. That alone will insure that color, brightness and contrast will be somewhat less than what you see on screen.

You can also get into RGB v CMYK and color gamuts but that's for people who work ina professional printing environment.