I use the Magic Wand tool to click on and select as many sections of the fringe as possible, then feather it a few pixels (I’ll try using the “Modify>Expand technique now though, because I think that solves some of my problems), then use the the “Image>Adjustment>Selective Color” function to decrease the magenta and/or cyan that I usually find in my older images (where i had used a lesser quality digital camera than the Pentax k20d I have now), and then either darken that selection, or use the Dropper tool to select the normal color from the object that has the fringe, and then the Paint Bucket set at about 30% to drop the color onto the fringe area – and then evaluate if it needs another splash of the Paint Bucket (at 30%) or even 2 more. Sometimes once is fine, other times it needs more paint.

There are also instances, usually when I am pressed for time, that I just say, “Oh, fug-ged aboud it!” and, after selecting the fringe areas, simply lower the Saturation (then maybe darken and blur). It all depends on how important the picture is to me and/or how well each approach works for that specific picture.

I have CS3, and use Photoshop Raw, even for my jpegs, but find that their chromatic aberration correction thing usually doesn’t work very well (and I keep trying, because I’d rather do it in Raw than in Photoshop). :/

Thanks for the very educational post. I’m sure it has been a help to a lot of people.