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Old 11-01-2009, 05:19 AM
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Chromatic aberration(color fringing) is directly due to lens quality-especially at the long end of kit zooms-best way to cope with this phenomenon,is to not extend zoom to full capacity. Red,Green and Blue (primary colors) have differing wavelengths,and to avoid fringing we need to have all 3 colors converging on the one focal point.Proper way is to invest in very expensive glass, called "apochromatic lenses", where doublet correction elements are employed to counterract Chromatic Aberration. here's how ,(two ways) I control it in photoshop:

- Lateral chromatic aberration (fringing) Removal

Ctrl+J select brush tool and click on the quick mask tool.
Choose a brush size to match the width of the fringe.
Draw all the areas that have fringing. When done, click icon next to quick mask
Select> Inverse.
Image> Adjustments> Hue/Saturation and pick the color closest to your fringe color Click eyedropper on the fringe color on your image.
drag Saturation slider to the left until the fringing goes.
Select> deselect
Save

Quick method for fringe elimination

Using lasso tool select area with fringing
Image> adjustments> Hue/Saturation
De saturate fringe color
Select> Deselect
save

Last edited by kencaleno; 11-01-2009 at 05:25 AM.
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