Fixing Exposure and fringing in DPP

Is there a way to fix the overexposure on the bird feeder and the purple fringing on the belly of the hummingbird? The only way I got it to look decent was the desaturate the image as a whole, which I don't think looks that good. I have the uncropped photo and a cropped photo uploaded. I do have the original RAW image to work with; the only software I have is Digital Photo Professional.

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For the overexposure you can try, the Highlight slider in the Raw TAB.
For the purple fringing, you can try "Lens aberration correction" button in the NR/Lens/ALO tab (then chromatic aberration checkbox and sliders), however the button may be disabled depending on the lens you have used for taking the pic.

That didn't really change anything in the image; I think the partially desaturated one will have to do. I did not know about the highlight slider, so at least I learned something.

I don't see any significant fringing, but you can play with the color channels in the RGB tab -- the Red and Blue channels can be individually manipulated by dragging the lines around -- see if you can get a good effect.

I "played" around with this on DPP with PF on my 85mm 1.8. I don't think it did much to eliminate the PF. That (meaning really bad PF the software can't overcome) or I wasn't using it right?

The Lens aberration correction is good for removing lateral CA, not for longitudinal CA or purple fringing. You won't get rid of it using DPP.

http://toothwalker.org​/optics/chromatic.html
http://www.dpreview.co​m …romatic_aberrat​ion_01.htm

René Damkot wrote in post #12251537
The Lens aberration correction is good for removing lateral CA, not for longitudinal CA or purple fringing. You won't get rid of it using DPP.

http://toothwalker.org​/optics/chromatic.html
http://www.dpreview.co​m …romatic_aberrat​ion_01.htm

Thanks for the links, they were pretty informative. If I wanted to properly fix the image, would my best bet be to find one of my friends who likes to play with Photoshop and see if they can make it look better? I don't have it and even Elements is not in my budget now.

I'd say yeah get one of your Photoshop friends to play!

imsellingmyfoot wrote in post #12254372
Thanks for the links, they were pretty informative. If I wanted to properly fix the image, would my best bet be to find one of my friends who likes to play with Photoshop and see if they can make it look better? I don't have it and even Elements is not in my budget now.

Save up. Get Elements or PS. Learn it. Use it and you have more control on YOUR images.

Another option that a lot here will suggest is GIMP since it's free.

Blurr Cube wrote in post #12254756
Save up. Get Elements or PS. Learn it. Use it and you have more control on YOUR images.

Another option that a lot here will suggest is GIMP since it's free.

I'm currently saving for a 70-200 f/4L. Elements is 2nd on my list unless I decide using my student discount for PS is worth it.

imsellingmyfoot wrote in post #12254772
I'm currently saving for a 70-200 f/4L. Elements is 2nd on my list unless I decide using my student discount for PS is worth it.

At some point if you want to get serious with PP... you will probably end up at the doorsteps of Adobe (Elements, Lightroom, Photoshop). There are other choices, of course... so check out the trial versions and then decide. Being able to get the academic version prices is a definite plus.