A Tip For Remove Chromatic Aberrations And Color Fringing In Photoshop

On this video tip photographer Steve Perry (from backcountrygallery) looks at at a simple Photoshop trick for removing chromatic aberration and small areas of color fringing from an image.

We love Perry’s tips – they are always coming from years of experience and actual field work and you know that he is actually used them for his work. According to him, “this method works great for small problem areas where the normal chromatic aberration tools don’t quite get the job done or when you notice a problem part way through processing your image”.

Normally you can use the lens correction filter to get rid of chromatic aberrations in an image. Start with either a new layer duplicate layer – cntrl j (if you have just the background layer) or combine all the other layers to a new layer which includes all of the lower ones cmd/cntrl + shift E. Next you want to blur the area – so lets start with filter>blur>Gaussian blur and push the marker until you just don’t see the chromatic aberration (use as little as possible). Now change the blend mode to color.

The problem is that the color was reduced – you can increase the saturation but a better way of doing that is with a layer mask and apply it only to the relevant area.

In the past we have looked at how to remove chromatic aberrations in Lightroom and you can check that video on this link.

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Iddo Genuth

Iddo Genuth is the founder and chief editor of LensVid.com. He has been a technology reporter working for international publications since the late 1990's and covering photography since 2009. Iddo is also a co-founder of a production company specializing in commercial food and product visual content.