Fix colour fringing
Mike Harris reveals a couple of simple editing tricks to rid your photographs of chromatic aberration in Adobe CC
Remove chromatic aberration in Adobe CC
Chromatic aberration (also known as colour fringing) occurs when different wavelengths of light are refracted at different angles as they pass through a lens element. This prevents the wavelengths from arriving at the same focal plane as the camera’s sensor, and since different wavelengths represent different colours, this results in the lurid fringes we’d all rather avoid.
This effect is amplified at both wider apertures and the longest or widest focal lengths of a zoom lens. Lens manufacturers work hard to avoid chromatic aberration and other distortions by using various mixes of lens elements and specialist lens elements, such as Nikon’s Super ED and Short-wavelength Refractive glass. But all lenses are susceptible to at least some chromatic aberration.
You’re most likely to encounter noticeable colour fringing when shooting in high-contrast lighting conditions, but that’s not to suggest you should avoid these situations. Editing software has made chromatic aberration easy to remove in post-production and in this article we’ll show you a couple of easy ways to combat chromatic aberration in Adobe CC.
You can remove chromatic aberration using Photoshop’s Lens Correction filter, but the quickest way to banish fringing is to check the Remove Chromatic Aberration checkbox in either Camera Raw or Lightroom’s Lens Correction panels. Photoshop comes into its own if you want to selectively edit your shot or remove stubborn examples of colour fringing via a non-destructive method using layer masks.