Johan: This is an old Jepg. I likely replaced the background in PS years ago. Unfortunately I have no recollection of which PS tool I used. The subject is a close-up of a person similar to the one you posted. I assume that I will have to go back to PS to remove the fringing. But the question is: Which tool?
The problem is that you will have to create these layers first, and that is going to be the greatest challenge. You will need to select the subject very precisely, with 100% of the fringing as part of the subject. You copy that selection to a new layer, and only then you can use the well known techniques to remove fringing.
With my limited knowledge, I gave this a try & it seemed to work reasonably well. I created a separate layer for the halo removal. However, I do have a curious question. When I attempted to save the edited PS image back to LrC, it didn't appear to save. At least I could not find it. This never happened before. Must be an error on my part. Any thoughts? Thank you.
If you added layers, then the image cannot be saved again as jpg, because jpg does not support layers. It has been saved as psd or tiff, and that is unexpected for Lightroom Classic. That means you will have to import this new image. Use ‘Synchronize Folder’.
Johan: Thank you for the response. I do save the image as a tiff. If I understand you correctly, simply saving the PS-edited image as a tiff will not export back into LrC. Am I correct? Although I do not use PS often, I am not sure that I experienced this before.
Correct. If you send a jpg from Lightroom to Photoshop, then that is what Lightroom expects in return. If you return a tiff or psd, because you want to save the image with the layers, then Lightroom doesn't know what you did so you'll have to import that image yourself.
I understand. I suspect that the reason that I never encountered this issue before is because all imagesa that I sent to PS were RAW files. I will followup on your suggestion to use Synchronize Folder. Thank you.
