orange fringing?

[flight1]

Can anyone tell me how to get rid of the orange fringing seen around the green hold-down bungee on this kayak I am building? (The bungee toward the rear) There are some other small areas in the shaddow beneath the boat.
I am using PSE 3 in Win XP. Thanks very much. Tom

[Flora]

Hi Tom,

I'm sure that many here have better eyes than I do .... but, for me, your attachment is very small ... I really can't see any fringing at all ....

Please, follow the second link under my signature for help on size and resolution of attachments ....

You could always crop the problem area from the image and post only that ....

[flight1]

Thanks for the reply, Flora. I am (trying to)sending an enlargement of the area in question. Tom

[Duv]

Try the following:

Make a copy of Background
Go to Layers: Create Clipping Mask
With the Color Picker select a color just outside the halo. With a small soft edge brush set to Darken and perhaps something like 50% opacity ( you'll have to experiment) paint over the halo.

Cheers
Dave

[Gary Richardson]

Hi Tom,

easiest way I know to do this is as follows.

Make new layer, set blend mode to colour. Using clone tool, set to sample all layers and Aligned.

Now take a sample close to orange banding, but in good colour, then simply paint along orange band. Colour will change to match colour of original.

hope this helps.

[Mike]

So is this an on going problem, and if so what is causing the problem in the first place? It is nice to be able to correct the image, but even nicer to be able to produce images that do not need correction

Mike

[flight1]

Thanks for the replies-each one is of some help.
Mike, I have not seen the orange before. There has been some purple fringing. (I am using a Sony 828 camera). I have tried to avoid the situations that seem to cause "purple frnging", but I still get some. Tom

[Mike]

I do not have time today to do much research, but IF I remember right, some of the fringing can be traced to image quaility (number of pixels, basicily the more the better, up to a point), method of saving (jpeg or tiff or ??, with jpeg being the worst), quaility of the imager itself(not much you can do about that) and other things.

I will try to do some digging in the next few days, as I have an articule somewhere that I think covers a lot of this.....

Mike