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Removing chromatic aberration

Removing chromatic aberration - Photoshop Tutorial

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Removing chromatic aberration

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- [Instructor] Both Adobe Camera RAW and Lightroom have a feature for applying a lens profile to a photo that will correct for minor distortions caused by the type of lens used to make the image. In the same tab for applying the lens profile, you can also apply a correction to remove a common optical artifact known as chromatic aberration. So here in Adobe Camera RAW I already have a couple of images loaded up so that we can explore this, and we're going to start with the Waikiki_04 image. Chromatic aberration will occur when a lens does not focus the different colored wavelengths of light equally across the entire image area, and it typically shows up as color fringing along high contrast edges, often in the outer areas of the image. So let me just zoom up close so we can see this. I'll go to the zoom image here in Camera RAW and I'll just choose 400%, and I'll hold down the space bar to get the grabber hand and drag over so…

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