Dealing with Purple or Green Color Fringing (Chromatic Aberrations)

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If you notice purple, magenta, or green fringe around the edges of things in your images (like the edges of a mountain, for example, or along a tree line, as shown above in the Before image on the left), you’re experiencing a lens problem called a “chromatic aberration”. In many cases, Lightroom or Photoshop’s Camera Raw can remove this color edge fringing automatically—just go to the Lens Corrections panel, click on the Profile tab, and turn on the Remove Chromatic Abberration checkbox (in Camera Raw, click on the sixth icon from the left, below the histogram, to get to the Lens ...

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