Playing with Landscape and Colours

Hi hmca,

Thank you for your constructive criticism  .  I appreciate it but alas, I do not see any chromatic aberation on my original photo.  

When I do see some chromatic aberation in my photos it is usually blueish and/or purplish in colour and I use the colour picker in a Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer to select the chromatic aberation colour and then desaturate it to match the neighbouring colours.

My posted image has a lot of colour edits applied as I briefly summarised in my op.  I also applied an outer glow coloured a shade of yellow to the edge of the mountain to emphasize the edge between the mountain and sky.

I suspect any fringing you see in the posted image is most probably due to effects introduced when I down-sized the photo (which throws away a lot of pixels) for web publishing in combination with your and my screen being calibrated differently.  

Out of curiosity, how have you calibrated your screen?

The print I made using the full high resolution version of the processed photo doesn't have any fringing along the mountain's edge at all and matches extremely closely with what I see on my computer screen.

No problem hmca 

I use Datacolour's Spyder Studio to calibrate my screen and to create custom printer profiles for my printers.  I am very happy with the closeness between what I see on my screen and my printer outputs.

In my thread "Why Photos Don't Look The Same On All Screens" I describe why, for a given image, what one person sees on their screen might not be an exact match to what someone else sees on their screen.

Also, when you and/or a user's browser resizes an image it may introduce anomalies compared to the original high resolution image.

Hi again hmca,

Yes, all I changed was the resampling method in PSE when I downsized the photo for uploading from Bicubic Sharper (Best for reduction) to Bicubic (Best for smooth gradients).

The original high resolution photo doesn't have any fringing along the mountain's edge.

Also, maybe imgbb do something to the jpegs to help make them display quicker - who knows? But I do know they blur thumbnails (at least mine ) to some extent and maybe do something to enlargements as well.

To be honest, it doesn't concern me if anomalies occur when resampling images for the web or if there are other subtle differences between what visitors see on their screen and what I see on my screen as obviously I have no control over the calibration and settings on a screen visitors are using to view images.  The only thing that concerns me is that the original high res. image looks how I want it to on my screen so that there are no nasty surprises if I print it.

Bailey and Helen

I also noticed the problem where the mountain’s edge met the sky.
I think it was not chromatic aberration and the problem was probably created during the editing. So, I decided to try Helen’s fix and it worked perfectly. Thank you Helen for the tip.

For the record, I use Datacolor’s SpyderExpress to calibrate my monitor.