Fringing = LAZY Editing!

We all want our Lightroom & Photoshop edits to look natural. Fringing gives away your secret, though. Here's a better technique for recovering the sky when post-processing your landscape photos.
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[@TonyAndChelsea]

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[@philnolan7193]

Or use a luminosity mask.

[@AndrewWells527]

Whoa I did not know you can add a brush into the graduated filter!

[@Strideo1]

That's the real tip in this video!

[@esenel92]

Must be pretty new though, my "old" (non CC) lightroom version doesnt have it

[@maximilianb8014]

Yeah it came with the new Lightroom. 5.7 is the last version without.

[@gameshoes]

My god, that brush tool with the graduated filter... I can't believe that I've been missing it this whole time! Thanks, Tony!

[@SPDTDL]

Love this guy! He relaxes me with his presenting style!

[@jackchow4316]

Agree! I love his presenting style too

[@Sjorezz]

Totally agree!

[@Biker_Gremling]

Tony is very chill, and he likes transmitting chillness.

[@scruffkingman]

hes like the dude

[@enterBeastmode1]

yeah, he's like a latino, chill Jamie Foxx

[@cshamber]

You are such a good teacher! I really appreciate the time you take to make these videos. I can't believe how much I have been learning.

[@StephenFirestone]

Fringing due to dropping the color, is a function (and limitation) of the software algorithm based upon the anti-aliasing (feathered) dynamic mask being applied via the filter. This same effect occurs when masking an object with a predominantly dark or light background. I loved your approach to the problem, and the outcome. As if the shadows from the clouds provided the boundary for the adjustment. This yields a more natural and superior look because the human brain keys on the artificial dissimilarity, but not the perceived changes in brightness due to clouds. Bravo!!!

[@16NIBOR]

I really think Tony is the best youtube photographer out there. He really is a complete photographer. He knows how the camera works internally, he knows PS/LR in and out, he knows all about gear and so on. Just complete, no loose ends! I see in many youtube-photographers they're just good at one thing. Either it's the photoshop part or the shooting part.

[@thebadmanreturns]

16NIBOR One of th best teacher

[@kylewolfe_]

Great tips Tony, I'm gonna refer this video to everyone who asks me why they're getting fringing and how to fix it. Sometimes the effect you receive from lowering luminance and altering hues gives more appealing colors than using the adjustments inside the graduated filter options. So if that is the case, what you can instead do is bring the photo with adjustments applied and resulting fringing into Photoshop. Use the quick selection tool on the objects with fringing, feather the selection inwards, and copy it to a new layer. Then, just scale it by 1-2% and viola, the fringing is gone. You might have to do a little bit of layer masking on areas of overlap, but most of the time it work very well to remove fringing. I'll do this on landscape photos that have endured a lot of color channel adjustments.

[@kylewolfe_]

Oh, also going over edges with a -clarity brush can lessen the visibility of fringing. The opposite is also true, so be careful with how much global clarity you add to a photo. It can amplify problems like this.

[@TonyAndChelsea]

+Kyle Wolfe great tips Kyle!

[@JoshuaBoldt]

yes when I am in photo groups I notice the weird halos from overdoing Clarity more than I notice this fringing

[@philnolan7193]

Or use a luminosity mask.

[@samuelfgonzalezrivera3283]

Super! Never noticed you could brush over the graduated filters. This will fix soooo many problems while editing. Thank You!

[@Ranblv]

the brush over the filter is new to me. will put this lesson to good use ASAP. Thanks northrups :-)

[@Livhis]

Thank you, Tony! All I can say is WOW! Yes, I was lazy but now I will use that useful tool, in Photoshop, though. Never thought about it until this video! Look forward to your next video! Best to Chelsea!

[@arizoniatea]

Tahnks Tony!!! :) You literally are relaxing with your style man, I love your videos, best youtube photography on here

[@andrewshieldsphoto]

Another great tip Tony, thanks! I also find the radial filter to be very nice for making subtle adjustments that avoid harsh edges. Feather ftw!

[@paulinefollett3099]

Very good explanation. I learnt a few things. Thanks for these tips Tony.

[@joshmags777]

such a useful vid, thanks Tony. will definitely be purchasing the paperback SDP soon

[@HonzaVeverka]

Great voice with great microphone AND great tutorial.

[@Flexpicker]

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I had noticed the fringing about my figures in many photos, but couldn't figure out what was causing it. I searched "white line around figures" in the photography blogs, but still couldn't find it. It was just by chance that I saw your vlog, but it really helped. I greatly appreciate your advice.

[@MarcAufdemKamp]

Great Video. I already used the filter but didn´t knew about the brush to upgrade the shapte of it. That will help with a lot of my travel shots where I had no chance to have the lighting correct of everything

[@karthikbasavarajappa785]

These tips just made many of my pics a lot better already! Thanks Tony :)

[@gaequipment]

Thanks, good tip. If I ever went through ALL of your lightroom videos and book I would have likely found this in there.

[@swyderYT]

Following you since a couple of month and I really like your channel, very good tips and advise ! Thanks for sharing !

[@JustLearning]

Tony your are one of the most knowledgeable person I know. Thanks for bringing great content.

[@ChrisBrayPhotos]

the brush tool on the graduated filters is game changing!! Can't believe that I never noticed that before

[@bentheremedia3011]

I was today years old when I learned that you could add a brush to the graduated filter. You are a lifesaver!

[@reelsportrd]

Thanks for sharing this! I already knew about the graduated filter, but I didn't know you could use a brush to add or subtract from the selection. Very useful

[@c0pyimitati0n]

I love the tip you showed at the very end.

[@paulomartins8483]

The Majestic Cliffs of Moher! Thanks Tony for the tips.

[@MikeJamesMedia]

Excellent. Thank you, Tony!

[@DingoRunner]

I'm not usually guilty of these "STOP doing this" from Tony & Chelsea but this time they got me. It's good that they also show a better way to do it.

[@termitedog]

Great as usual Tony

[@Trolleyfox]

That graduated filter brush thing is going to save my life, thank you!!!!!

[@dkoze]

Seriously, your channel is excellent.

[@licensedtoskill809]

Yes! I love this trick. Thank you!

[@priza2914]

Thank you for this useful information ....

[@johnx9318]

That was a very useful tip, thanks.

[@SweetMisery247]

You just saved me from continuing to have unwanted headaches while editing my photos... THANK YOUUUUU!!!! :D

[@ZachAshcraftPhotography]

Great tutorial! Love the graduated filter

[@Mr_Judge_Benny_Hinn]

Informative content once again....You guys rock my cotton socks off ;).. well done

[@benfergusonishere]

Thank you! Very helpful!

[@bohdanstadnyk9578]

Great tip! Thanks.

[@AirGuitar]

This is great! More Lightroom tutorials!

[@raytracemusic]

Thanks, this has helped me with a load of Austrian landscape pics Im working on right now - I had tried doing subtractive brushes using the right hand tool but it wasnt working at all - also btw the 'auto mask' (which i had tried on some trees jutting into the graduated filter zone) can cause those same horrible harsh single pixel ghosting artifacts.

[@criticaltinker]

in addition to that graduated filter, you can also adjust the shadows to lessen the effect in the darker areas.

[@sunnyoutdooradventures]

Great tip. I need to make the brush bigger next time

[@HybridlifeOrg]

very good. many thanks

[@craigbreedlove18]

Great. very helpfull. Thanks

[@BeCoShooter]

Great tip! Thx.

[@smaakjeks]

Short and sweet!

[@jensvielmann7662]

thx for the tip. When blending exposures with to great a contrast it will take a bit more work to prevent this fringing.... unless you know of a QUICK way i havent found yet. Prime example: One image with blown out whit sky and another with a proper sky... esp if trees are reaching into the sky.

[@Duphe]

thank you so much, very helpfull tutorial :)

[@fakeshemptaboo]

Wow!! Thank you!!

[@matthewpowers4486]

Great video.

[@lilrunoo]

very helpful...and chill

[@jas9450]

So Cool!

[@jawadsaleemastro]

Thanks Tony

[@capailldubh]

Thanks Tony. Cliffs of Moher, Co Clare, Ireland. I live not far away :-)

[@BuzzKillingtonism]

Very helpful!

[@IslandFilmMaker]

Thx Tony this was great :) Such a simple lesson with more intermediate ways to create a better image in LR. I think in today's world with so many with general knowledge on Photography, you and Chelsea should do more of this. Maybe a monthly episode or add it into a live broadcast. You could call it "Tips & Tricks" with Chelsea & Tony ;)

[@gryzman]

cool stuff, thanks

[@intheair1987]

YOU ARE SUCH A GOOD TEACHER

[@gazdyer2732]

Good interesting video thanks

[@majkyyx]

Great video, as always! Are you still using that sigma 50-100 f/1.8 despite having focus problems?

[@RyanH0809]

super helpful!

[@CL-zm2pq]

Hey Tony, would you ever consider doing a tutorial on 'Intimate' landscape photography? I think it's a fascinating subject..... Cheers

[@MyMomSaysImSmart]

I wish you had made this video a couple years ago before I figured this out on my own! :)

[@mjones410]

I don't use Photoshop, so not sure if you can do it, but if I were doing this on GIMP, using a layer mask with a graduated transition from black to white I would use the Smudge tool to get the outline of the hills right. I find it easier to get right than using the brush.

[@BadDuet]

great tip

[@MOMAT_]

Thanks tony

[@kris.monroe]

This just changed my life for the better.

[@denniswilson9367]

Um...didn't know you could do that with the graduated filter tool. Thanks Tony!

[@joshmags777]

loved this video. Also thank you so much for making that one a while ago about how not to get robbed/ripped off over the internet. Tried to sell my lens on ebay and because you made me so paranoid I was able to pin a scammer right away. Tony IS chill!

[@TonyAndChelsea]

+Josh Magdaleno glad to help! We managed to stop a scammer before he got us after that video, too

[@edwardpayton4369]

All I got to say WOW! This opens up some great options for enhancing some ho hum pictures.

[@BazzFreeman]

Any thoughts on doing some on Capture One Pro? I dumped lightroom when I went to Sony from Canon a couple of years ago and I really like it.

[@WilliamLesourd]

Thanks Tony. My favorite way to defringe when the graduated filter is not a viable option (or because the white halo is caused by over-sharpening at the end of your post-treatment), is to use the stamp tool. You stamp the sky and brush the white halo in the "Darken" mode so that only the halo is affected. Have the stamp tool set to say, 30% opacity or whatever looks best. The brush tool can also be used in more or less the same way. Obviously you will have to be very careful if the skyline is made up of a snowcap mountain range otherwise you would also be covering the snow.

[@atitg727]

which mirrorless body is best for adapting canon/ sigma ef lenses? requesting for a video comparing the sigma mc-11 on sony a6300/ a6500 vs ef-m adapter on eos m5 or m6. thanks.

[@AdamJPurvis]

thank you papa TOny

[@BULLAKI]

Any suggestions for removing chromatic aberration from videos? In Resolve you can play with the splitter combiner node and resize the red channel, but results are not guaranteed. As an alternative you can export videos as tiff files and process them in lightroom and use the lens corrections tool... but this takes long time. Do you know if there is any software that allows desaturating features edges in videos? There is a edge detection ofx in Resolve but I don't know how to translate the detected edges into a power window.

[@phooesnax]

Great tip/ great presentation! Does Raw Therapee also do this? JIm

[@NathansVideos46]

just got your guys' book. incredibly helpful

[@TonyAndChelsea]

Thanks!

[@davehyper7835]

Same here, just ordered stunning digital photography and lightroom 6/CC Can't wait to dive into them.

[@Livhis]

Stunning Digital Photography is incredible, too! Very useful!

[@fiftycalguru]

That book ... awesome, it's good to read through or use as a reference!

[@tonylouisvisionvideography3469]

Is it the light room book?

[@aleksiikonen7361]

I didn't know you can use brush in graduated filters.. Thanks for the tip!

[@mommabear6]

I see fringing and chromatic aberration everywhere on everything, naturally. I had no idea there was something wrong with my vision until I started watching your photography videos....I'm 38. Thank you for unintentionally bringing this to my attention so I can go see a neurologist.

[@darrylsmith3102]

in Broadcast video we call it Ringing. You can actually see it in ANY 1080 or Lower video resolution.

[@astheskylarksings]

Random question for you, Tony. How far does having fast primes and a mirrorless camera get you? You've mentioned it a few times indirectly, but I was wondering if you could do something more thoroughly on that, or if you already have, if you could point me in the direction of that video. I really enjoyed your old video about the mirrorless system and the issue with the f number needing to be multiplied, not just the millimeters.

[@drtechtek2165]

thnx i will try it next time

[@joeblow9931]

excellent

[@7betrayer]

Never realized I could use the brush-erase on the graduated filters (doh!). Struggled with this before as I usually bring the highlights down to punch out the sky, but depending on my shot, I'd ruin the darker areas trying to bring up the shadows (I have a canon aps-c camera).

[@sjs2657g]

Chromatic Aberration makes photos look like Paint by Numbers.

[@ZOMBITVPT]

Cool.TKS

[@mitchell1797]

Good thing Capture One has the option for feathering, it's just a nice easier process with a lot more power.

[@CesarinPillinGaming]

I wonder if there is a similar technique but for using DXOoptics.

[@dennishumbla5431]

I wounder about this, Is a lens with lots of CA a good lens compared to an more controlled lens with more corrected elements? Does it give more true depth, Should I leave some CA In the photos or take It all out in Lightroom because it doesn't look nice.

[@SunnyDeeTee]

How would you apply a graduated filter using photoscape pro x? Or is it not possible using that program?

[@errolvanzie4765]

Thanks I never new why that would happen

[@albertosohua]

When did you go to Ireland? (Good tips, thanks)

[@ikoushik4647]

tnq sir

[@ecitizenmichael]

A little green fringing might be appropriate for the time of year :-)

[@jumjam234]

Hey Tony!

[@paulwood3024]

What is your opinion on increasing shadow to lighten the mountain?

[@saladaufdieeichel]

very nice explanation. skilled but never patronising like an old school teacher. pleasantly unexcited.

[@mrdev9843]

Useful Cheers