Chromatic Aberration is often a challenge for digital photographers especially for those of us exploring the creative world of HDR photography. Initially, I was trying to solve Chromatic Aberration issues via Photoshop but it was painful and simply took too long. Then I discovered a very easy fix using a Chromatic Aberration develop tool in Adobe Lightroom. I typically apply this fix at the very end of my HDR processing workflow.
Update 7/22/2010 – I’ve since come up with an easy and much more effective process to follow using Adobe Photoshop.
Here is a sample of how I’ve used the Chromatic Aberration tool in Lightroom to fix one of my recent HDR images:
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- Adobe Lightroom has a very useful Chromatic Aberration tool under the “Develop” tab
- The arrow in the above image is showing the Chromatic Aberration issue in this image which becomes very evident when zoomed in at 100%
- Using the sliders, I’m able to quickly remove most of the Chromatic Aberration.
- When dealing with tree branches like this photo, setting the “Defringe” to selection to “All Edges” will typically help remove most of the remaining Chromatic Aberration.
Hope you’ve found this tip useful. If you have any other Chromatic Aberration tips to share, please do share in the comments!
Good luck shooting!
-Ken Snyder
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Awesome! I'm happy to hear it worked out well for you!
Thanks man. Seeing exactly what you were showing in my HDR. I actually did this to all my images in Lightroom first, then imported into Photomatix and did the same thing again. Helped out a bunch