Fringing?

[Ding Carpio]

Tried to shoot the Nightjar this morning but it was so backlit that I ended up with severe fringing.



I know PS' Camera RAW has feature that reduces fringing but t doesn't seem to work well on severe cases like mine. Is there a better/easier way than brushing it out?

[Lydia Robledo]

The camera or the nightjar? Mike Lu is in UK. You can poke the nightjar a bit. That's what I do with sluggards. He, he.

[jonathandael]

Play around with Selective Color.. that'll do the trick. choose blue, red or magenta and play around with the sliders.

Or Replace Color if that doesn't work.

[Bobby Kintanar]

I've been using Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 (USD99.00) from Corel for a couple of months now, and it has an automatic function that works really well with Fringing. Just select the areas you want to clean up, and it does the rest.

I'll try it on the image Ding, and post the result here :-)

[Romy Ocon]

That looks like blooming to me - the overexposed areas have far exceeded the sensor's full-well capacity and artifacts have resulted and spilled over to the neighboring pixels. Not a very easy task to correct (I'd mitigate this by manually correcting each affected area). Fringeing OTOH is a lens aberration and can be corrected fairly easily in ACR during conversion.

[Ding Carpio]

Nov 7, 2008 16:07:01 GMT Romy Ocon said:

That looks like blooming to me - the overexposed areas have far exceeded the sensor's full-well capacity and artifacts have resulted and spilled over to the neighboring pixels. Not a very easy task to correct (I'd mitigate this by manually correcting each affected area). Fringeing OTOH is a lens aberration and can be corrected fairly easily in ACR during conversion.

I think you're right, Romy. I maxed out the fringing sliders and managed to remove thin color strips but still lots of blue-violet left behind. Maybe the best thing to do is avoid it. Probably will go back with a long ladder!

[Bobby Kintanar]

Here's the photo after "One-step Purple Fringing Removal" tool was applied:



See the difference?

Best regards!

[Neon Rosell II]

Wow!! that's one mean defringing program Bobby!! I think I'll get this program considering the amount of back lit photos we shoot.

[Bobby Kintanar]

Hehehe - you'll be surprised at the number of tools the X2 has to offer - and at such a low price! You can even set your own de-noising levels (and save them) for each camera/ISO setting.

Be warned though, it is not as quick as PS CS2 or CS3, and the learning curve is a bit steep, but considering the price and all the bells and whistles that go with it, I think it's worth it. :-)

[Ding Carpio]

Hanep!

I wonder if PS can catch up with this feature.