Editing out "aura" around objects shot from far away with wide aperture

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I took some shots from a bridge in Stockholm, looking down on the street below. They're great, except there is a subtle pinkish glow around objects like fences and street signs. I was shooting at a low aperture (about 1.8) because it was getting dark outside. Any tips on how to remove this in Photoshop?
 
This thread clearly would benefit from you posting the pictures in question for us to look at.
Also, welcome to TPF!
 
Thanks! And yeah, you're right. Here's the image and a crop of the image showing the problem more clearly: $stockholmstreet.webp$crop.webp
 
Ah. That is lens aberration, just from imperfect glass and design. It looks to me like a combination of spherical aberration (creates a sort of fuzzy halo) and chromatic aberration (where different wavelengths of light separate slightly from each other).

Chromatic aberration might be solvable in photoshop. The first thing to look into is whether they have your particular lens on file with a correction profile. I don't know where to find this in normal photoshop, I usually do it during RAW conversion into photoshop. But just google "lens correction profiles photoshop" and I'm sure you can find the option quickly. If they have your particular lens, then chromatic aberration is usually something they can auto fix.

However, this looks like it is a result MORE of spherical aberration than chromatic. The chromatic looks so slight to me here that it might not be worth trying to fix. And you can't really fix spherical. You can use sharpening filters, but that's about it.

What lens is this? A 50 1.8? If so, they usually look better than that at 100% crop.
 
Which Photoshop do you have? Photoshop Elements, Photoshop CS/CC, or Photoshop Lightroom?

Photoshop CS and CD include the plug-in parametric Raw converter - Camera Raw. Camera Raw can be used to correct chromatic aberration.
Fixing CA using Camera Raw - Bing
 

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