Chromatic Aberration Gone

I don't know exactly at what point this happened, perhaps with the 4.1 update, but the Chromatic Aberration check box has disappeared from Lens Corrections panel. It isn't where it was a while back under the Profile tab; nor are the old fringe tools available under the Manual tab; the Defringe pup-up menu is also gone. What gives?
I helped a friend upgrade from Lightroom 3 to 4 yesterday and found the same issues on here computer.
What gives?

Thanks, guys. I finally figured it out after some more tinkering. But the infor is not, unfortunately, in Scott Kelby's Lightroom 4 book, which was published before the change. If you can point me to any tutorials for the new version of the Defringe panel I'd appreciate it.

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Chromatic Aberration Removal in LR4 is terrible

I used a manual fixed focal length penatx lens on my Canon 40D and it shows chromatic aerration in the raw file. In LR4 all you can do is check the option to remove chromatic aberration. LR4 did an awful job making it even worse. See before and after image below. The chromatic aberration should have manual controls to adjust it to one's liking. Red/Cyan and Blue/Yellow sliders should be complemented by a Green/Magenta slider in the manual section. Now that would be an improvement on LR3. I loathe chromatic aberration which is unavoidable in many cases. More control over it's removal is a definite must. LR4 has gone backwards. I don't want to have to fiddle with profiles etc to fix this. Just put the controls that were in LR 3 back and add a green/magenta slider please.

I'll try the moire brush as suggested.
I am trying to emphasise the point that the software should be moving forward. That means new tools or upgrades should avoid adding artifacts as much as possible and certainly upgrades to existing tools should not perform worse than the original tool. I have found an example here where it does with chromatic aberration removal where an artifact is formed.
It's interesting that some of the commentary above almost suggests that chromatic aberration removal should be an adjustment brush. The user could then isolate the edges that he/she wants to remove the coloured fringes from. Then there should be the ability to choose which colour shifts are required red/cyan, blue/yellow, or green/magenta.
It looks like the current tool may improve some edges while making others worse. If checking the choice of automatic aberration correction doesn't work - then one has to go to another external editor to fix the problem - not the most satisfactory result of an upgrade. I like the suggestion in another thread of having both the option of auto and manual control options - much like exposure control. Photographers like manual control of image enhancements.
I have chosen to take pictures that have extreme aberrations to test the robustness of the tool. I have shot pictures with high contrast lighting, with older cheaper glass, and with the aperture wide open. I'll try to get some pictures to Eric as mentioned above.

Camera Raw problem with Chromatic Aberration

I am using bridge CS5 (version 4.0.5.11) and working in camera raw. In the lens corrections tab in the manual control I have lost my chromatic Aberration controll, this is to say, it has disappeared. I now see under the manual tab I now see the transform controlls, below that I see lens vignetting. The chromatic aberration conrolls have disappeared, where have they gone and can I get them back and how do I do that?

They're gone for good as of Camera Raw 6.7 and newer.
Adobe replaced them with an automatic process they say is better, and to be honest it usually works very well.
Folks have posted about a few cases where it doesn't work, but they seem to be exceptions, and so far Adobe is showing no signs of restoring controls to the user.
See also: http://forums.adobe.com/message/4397207#4397207
-Noel

? The Chromatic Aberration slider in Camera Raw V. 6.7 disappeared.How do I retrieve it?

The chromatic aberration slider in the Lens Correction panel in Camera Raw 6.7 (PS CS5) has disappeared. Must I re-download again, or?
If I do, should I uninstall what is on the computer now? I use a Mac. Robert C. Tanner

The CA corrections are now automatically applied using a checkbox, the sliders are gone (and won't be returning).

New Chromatic Aberration tools kills old settings.

I've just recently found that new chromatic aberration tools kills settings for old chromatic aberration tools.
Lets say I have a PV2010 photo with adjusted sliders for chromatic aberration reduction and selected defringe "all edges".
Now I'm importing this photo to LR 4.1.
Note: I'm not updating process version!
Photo is automatically updated by Lightroom to new CA controls (note it still PV2010 photo).
Well, I must say the the results are superb - they are the same as I was achieving with manual sliders, but now with only one click.
But the problem is - Lightroom says that metadata have been changed, and I am writing back changes to XMP.
But now XMP contains settings for new CA tools, but settings for old CA tools are LOST.
So if I want to open this image in ACR 6.6, or send it to someone with older LR version I end up with completely resetted CA settings, because ACR 6.6 does not have new CA tools, and settings for old tools are killed by LR 4.1 - they are just removed from XMP.
So I am loosing CA removal settings completely when opening image in earlier version of application.
And I am NOT updating process version!
Any comments on this?

Here is screen shot in which you can see that even PV2010 photo has new CA tools and old ones are gone with their settings applied in LR3.
I have tried to import CR2 files without any settings in the XMP into newly created empty catalog and have same result.
When I am switching photo to PV2003 or PV2010 only new CA tools are available.
And saving metadata to file kills old CA settings and writes settings for new tools (even for PV2010 photo) which previous versions does not understand.
To my opinion this is very serious bug!
Here is photoshop feedback message created 5 days ago: http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/lightroom_new_cromatic_aberration_to ols_kills_old_settings
Looks like noone cares...
Can someone at least say do I am the only person having this issue, or you can see this behaviour too.

Chromatic Aberration tools are missing...

A few days ago I got a notification about a new Camera Raw update. I told it to go ahead and install it. After it was done I got back to work. That is when I noticed my Chromatic Aberration tools were gone. The tools for fixing lens distortion and everything were still there, just the chromatic tools were MIA. Is this just me, or is this something that was planned for some reason? I have checked and tried everything short of uninstalling and reinstalling Photoshop and Bridge to fix it. Anyone else have this issue?
Oh btw, I'm on a mac running Snow Leopard

Look for an Auto-CA checkbox in the lens correction area.
Lateral-CA is caused by the red, green, and blue channels having a slightly different size on the sensor. This was fixed by the manual-CA sliders and is now fixed by the Auto-CA capability.
Axial-CA is caused by the red, green, and blue channels focusing at slightly different points. This will be fixed by defringing tools.

Lr and NEF Chromatic Aberration

Dear All,
The more I look at (D700) NEFs in Lr, the more I think Lr does not do justice to them (note that I do not blame Adobe for this). Indeed, if I look at Lr's rendition of NEFs compared to the in-camera generated JPEGs, I see chromatic aberrations which are not present in the JPEG. For instance compare
with
Clearly, the top image exhibits much less chromatic aberration than the second. Now, the top image is the JPEG and the bottom one is the NEF. Clearly, Nikon's on-board chip knows more about rendering the raw image than Lr does. Anyone else seen this effect ?
With the introduction of camera profiles in V2.4, Lr made a step in the right direction. Now the question is: When will Lr be able to do at least as well as Nikon's on-bord chips when it comes to chromatic aberration ? Couldn't Adobe "buy" Nikon's "secret" and get Lr up to top speed ?
Thanks for your time and input, folks.
++
Jepoma

Sorry, but the camera generated jpg includes all of Nikon's in-camera processing. There is no reason why a nef in LR should duplicate it exactly. Since Nikon is perhaps the hardest core about making certain information proprietary, you are comparing apples and oranges, or more appropriately a raw apple to an apple pie made with a secret recipe. From my perspective, LR will never do "as well" as the on board chip because you aren't seeing the results of the onboard chip anyway but rather the processed data from that chip. Actually, the LR image is likely closer to the unprocessed data than the jpg. Personally, I don't like Nikon's in-camera processing (and have never been comfortable with the detail I am losing with Nikon jpgs), so I shoot exclusively raw and am happy to do all the adjustment in LR.
As far as Adobe buying "the secrets" from Nikon, I just think that is a bit naive. That assumes that Adobe is the stumbling block, when the reality is Nikon has pushed to keep things propietary and sells its own (lousy) software to take advantage of the propietary aspects. BTW, of course you are blaming Adobe - LR is not a living being, it is a piece of software designed by the people at Adobe. If it doesn't do what you want and you are comparing it unfavorably to the Nikon straight-from-camera jpg, you would appear to be attributing a deficiency to someone. Based upon the rest of the post that certainly would appear to be the producers of LR....
Stephen

Edit in photoshop loses chromatic aberration corrections

Hi
I have a problem I have not noticed before... when I do a chromatic aberration correction in Lightroom, then do "Edit in Photoshop", it opens in PS but the chromatic aberration is still there, uncorrected. It seems to be applying other corrections okay, just not the CA correction.
If I export the image as a tiff, then open it in PS, the chromatic aberration correction looks good. See the images below.
I have been using Lightroom for years but not in the last year. I don't have the memory I used to have so I keep thinking I am just doing something wrong. Can anyone help?
Thanks,
Steve

Mitch,
I have seen the same when working with Adobe photo editors and in my case it turned out there were multiple copies of the image, one flattened and one with the layers. I need to nail this one down so I will get on this it evening when I get some time. In the mean time, check and see if there is another copy with the layers intact.
Dave Huss

Is there a chromatic aberration or purple fringing tool in PSE 10?

The subject line basically says it all. The chromatic aberration tool in Aperture doesn't do much for me. Is there one in PSE 10? Thank you.

Well, PSE's implementation of ACR can help correct chromatic aberration somewhat. Here's the original image from somegirl's web site:
Using these settings:
Results in this:
Not great, but better than I expected.
Ken

Chromatic aberration being introduced to RAW file by PS CS3

I have been working on some old photos (Canon 10D RAW files) and when I open the files in Photoshop I find that the file has severe chromatic aberration (introduced upon opening). While in ACR, the file is fine (no CA) but when it opens in PS there are significant green and red shifts (unfixable using the lens correction filter). This happens regardless of whether I open the file as a smart object, a 16 bit or 8 bit file. I have recently loaded OSX 10.5.1, and the PS version is 10.0.1. Has anyone else had this problem?

>While in ACR, the file is fine (no CA)
You may need to zoom into the corners of the image to 200-400% to see and correct CA as well as other fringing. The Lens correction DOES produce reduced or eliminated defringing if you properly use it. If you have a question, post the raw file.

Would like some assistance with removing chromatic aberration from images . In using the slider tool only some of aberration is removed tried brushing in but not successful. After magnifying image 1005 i can still see some slight purple fringing .

Can anyone assist me in using chromatic aberration tools in removing purple fringing completely from images? I have had limited success in using the slider , but in zooming in at 100% I can still see slight purple fringing in image . i tried brushing in but that did not seem to remove purple fringing completely.

Can anyone assist me in using chromatic aberration tools in removing purple fringing completely from images? I have had limited success in using the slider , but in zooming in at 100% I can still see slight purple fringing in image . i tried brushing in but that did not seem to remove purple fringing completely.

No chromatic aberration tool?

i shoot primarily wide angle, so i'm often dealing with CA. by not having this corrective tool as part of the RAW workflow (like in Adobe Camera Raw), i think i'll be locked out of using aperture all together. because, unlike with other features i wish aperture had - layers, masks, etc. - there is no workaround (export to photoshop).
does anyone know if this tool there and i just can't find it? or is there a workaround that i don't know about? because overall, i very much like aperture so far, and want to be able to use it. it would be a shame if this one small but important omission kept me from using what otherwise seems like a great program.
powerbook 1.67 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

thanks, just realized that cs2 has a chromatic aberration tool as a filter; it seems much cruder than the one built into ACR, but it will do the trick and keep me working in aperture.

Better chromatic aberration repair than ACR? Plugin?

I've suddenly (and sadly) become wise to the existence of chromatic aberration in my images. I'm finding that it's different from image to image - undoubtedly due to different lenses, zoom setting, etc.
I've been using ACR's chromatic aberration fix to generally good effect, but since it's different from image to image, it's not possible to just save settings as a template to use with every image. It's not a LOT of work to tweak each image, but I was wondering whether there was any "miracle" CA-fixing plugin out there that I should know about. Similar to how Noise Ninja seems to do a better job with noise than Photoshop's built-in tools.
Any recommendations?

http://www.dxo.com/us/photo/dxo_optics_pro
It's expensive, but works wonderfully.

Zoom does not reflect Chromatic Aberration in Develop

Hello
Have anyone noticed that in LR 1.0 (last build) the chromatic aberration correction shows up correctly if image is zoomed (for precise correction) but remains the same (not corrected) if the "fit" zoom is restored?
I corrected some .ORF (Olympus) RAW and found that if zoomed the correction (after playing with CA cursors) is ok (no more visible red/green fringe) but restoring the default zoom to see the full image doesn't show the corrections made. And the aberration is very strong so is visible even at "fit" zoom.
Does the Develop module not resample/redraw the image using a preview?
I think can be misleading to correct CA and not see changes reflected at all zooming.

Great.
These changes aren't viewable in the Develop module, except at 1:1. Gee, real helpful for 24 megapixel images... viewing at 1:1 that is. Unless, of course, I have a 42" high-quality LCD that, oh, doesn't exist yet.
And the Library module will probably just show the image with banding/JPEG macroblocking, so, no use there.
So, looks like the only option to view your CA/noise/sharpening-adjusted image fitted on your screen in high quality is to first EXPORT the file then VIEW in a viewer OTHER than LR.
Fascinating, how LR is such a wonderful image EDITOR, but is worse than just about every other piece of software out there for VIEWING.
Sorry, but even hyperbole doesn't suffice here. It's really just shocking that LR is the crappiest image *viewer* I've seen to date.
Actually, more shocking to me is that it seems that people *don't even care* about LR's sub-par viewing capabilities. Save for all my posts and one corroborating post by Andrew Rodney & another one by someone I can't remember (apologies!) -- no one has complained about the ridiculously horrid image quality when viewing images outside of the 'Develop' module. I mean, for a program that's all about 'aesthetics' and 'focusing on the image' (lights out mode, etc.), why show me a sub-par view of my images? Aren't my images the most important part of the whole picture??
And what's with all these optimizations for speed? Cutting corners here and there for speed...? On my 5400RPM hard drive MacBook Pro (ok, fine, Core 2 Duo w/ 2 GB of RAM), LR is *blazing* fast and I work with 120MB 16-bit film scans and I NEVER find myself sitting around for LR to perform a calculation, etc. It's *fast enough*... now how about putting some emphasis on *quality* back into the program rather than crippling the program so it runs faster (or not, if you have a decent machine anyway)?
Or how about at least giving us the *option* to enable purportedly 'high-end' features like, uh, viewing an image in full quality when presenting a slideshow to friends, or, *gasp*, PAYING CLIENTS...!!
Gosh I love Lightroom, and have mad respect for the developers... they are brilliant, intelligent, revolutionizing everything. But, man, sometimes these fundamental omissions, and lack of their recognition by the community at large, drive me insane!
Many apologies for the rant, since I know some people out there would like to bite my head off for being so caustic :-P
-Rishi

Chromatic Aberrations and ACR

I've read that Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) does a very good job of removing chromatic aberration artifacts.
I do believe that, but what specifically in ACR is the tools / sliders that will do this magic ?

It is great and a big time saver. Open a CR image in Camera Raw. On the right just below the histogram are 10 icons with a lens being the 6th from the left. Click on it, choose the Profile TAB, Select Enable Lens Profile Corrections, below in the Lens Profile select your Camera Make and if you are lucky your lens will be selectable in the Model pull down below. IF not Click on the manual tab and do it the old way. Also under the manual tab are some new geometric transforms that are sometimes useful at the Raw level. Enjoy!

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