Color "bleed"??? I'm aware that I over did some photoshoping on this image, but I am curious as to why the green carried over to parts of the squirrel??? I probably pushed the...

JohninRockville Loc: Rockville, Indiana

I'm aware that I over did some photoshoping on this image, but I am curious as to why the green carried over to parts of the squirrel??? I probably pushed the saturation too much but why did the tail, etc pick up the green color? This is not the first time it's happened and it seems most common in the fur around the edge of an animal I'm photographing.
I'm aware it is NOT good photography and would never attempt to submit this to any contest.

PaulG Loc: Western Australia

What exactly did you do in PS? Looks like saturation/contrast has really been vamped up? There is a predominance of green in the b/grd and, I would say that being highlight, the fur fringes have consequently picked it up. You can correct that in PS though. Easiest way is to do a duplicate background layer, colour correct the image, then erase around all but the tail. Nice picture, by the way.

rook2c4 Loc: Philadelphia, PA USA

If I want intensive saturation throughout an image, I usually saturate different areas within the image selectively with different intensities using selection tools (brush tool, magic wand, etc.) rather than applying the same saturation boost level globally. Not only does this approach give me precise control over the image's saturation, but it also helps avoid unwanted side effects of increased saturation - such as your example.

I've seen some people also split the tonal ranges into separate layers and manipulate saturation for each layer accordingly then recombine the layers back to a single image, but that method does take practice to master effectively.

Bob Andrews Loc: Scotland

The "best" advice I have read about saturation is not to push it above +30 or you will get unwanted problems. Try pushing it all the way to the right and see what it does to an image and judge for yourself what the problems are.

Bill Houghton Loc: New York area

rook2c4 wrote:

If I want intensive saturation throughout an image... (show quote)

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Bill Houghton Loc: New York area

Just a note, if your using CS Photo Shop you can use "Select" then "Color Range" it will allow you to go in and pick those fine hairs on the tail. If you get more selection then you wanted just Press the "Alt" key, put the cursor on what you didn't want then the left key on the mouse to deselect it. You might have to change the fuzziness to narrow it down. And remember to save the selection. Saving it will allow you bring you selection back on a different layer to make those readjustment later on.

jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ

JohninRockville wrote:

I'm aware that I over did some photoshoping on this image, but I am curious as to why the green carried over to parts of the squirrel??? I probably pushed the saturation too much but why did the tail, etc pick up the green color? This is not the first time it's happened and it seems most common in the fur around the edge of an animal I'm photographing.
I'm aware it is NOT good photography and would never attempt to submit this to any contest.

To start with you should include the EXIF info so we know more about the image. If I had to guess, I'd say it's noise or jpg artifacts that are just magnified by your over processing.

rich808 Loc: Honolulu

It's green because of background reflecting off the tail, why did you go so dark?

gdwsr Loc: Northern California

Along with what everybody else said, if I recall correctly, digital sensors have far more green sensors than red and blue. So it wouldn't be surprising to see this fringing in the greens. In my photos I notice that the greens (like grass) are much brighter and more saturated that the other colors so, almost always, part of my workflow is to tone down the greens.

Armadillo Loc: Ventura, CA

JohninRockville wrote:

I'm aware that I over did some photoshoping on this image, but I am curious as to why the green carried over to parts of the squirrel??? I probably pushed the saturation too much but why did the tail, etc pick up the green color? This is not the first time it's happened and it seems most common in the fur around the edge of an animal I'm photographing.
I'm aware it is NOT good photography and would never attempt to submit this to any contest.

JohninRockville,

Take a good, close look at the original capture, you may have a trace of the fringing there, as well.

If it is there in some degree you could remove it with a Chroma Aberration Tool, and then continue with your PP.

Michael G

norvik1943 Loc: Jenks, OK and Domazan, France

Nice shot, with your enhancements, reminds me of an old bum begging for a dime.

boberic Loc: Quiet Corner, Connecticut. Ex long Islander

May be it's a green squirel

rpavich Loc: West Virginia

It's called "sensor bloom" I think....and normal.

photoninja1 Loc: Tampa Florida

Over sharpening with a wide radius may cause a similar effect. There may be light filtering through the green leaves that is imparting some of the green as well. Fringing usually shows up as purple or magenta. I've never seen a green fringe, and this doesn't look like fringing.