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I typically only go to the RAW image if I really need the extra color depth that's there.  This happens sometimes when I've got a challenging lighting situation in the photo, like in this post.  Even when I've got the exposure about as good as I can get it, when I process the image, I inevitably end up with a strong chromatic aberration as seen in this photo (I doubled the size of this image to highlight the problem, it's usually not this bad):

 

 

To take care of this, I've found that the color replacement brush in Photoshop Elements is a great tool.  Set the brush size to just over the width of the distortion band.  Then, Alt+Click on the plumage color just inside the distortion, to select the replacement color.  Then, start painting the blue (or red) away.  Alt+Click on the nearest good color several times as you go down to ensure the colors are consistent.  Once you try it a couple of times, you'll get the hang of it.  Here's the result:

 

 

Any questions?

That is one way to do it here is another way

Use your Hue/Saturation select the blue and desaturate until the blue fringing is gone. If your image has blue in it that is ok as you can use an adjustment mask to desaturate the blue fringing.

If the chromatics is red then instead of desaturating the blue desaturate the red.

 

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Hi, Kiwi!

I tried desaturating earlier, but I noticed that this leaves behind the blue that kind of "bled into" the brown on the neck.  Not sure if I'm describing it well enough, but there's the really harsh distortion that selects pretty easily and you can desaturate, but there's also a blue tinge to the natural color that lies inside of that.  I found that color replacement works better there. 

I'm not really savvy with layers and masks yet, so maybe I'm a victim of my ignorance.  Can you set up a channel mask so that you only affect the blue channel in a given area?

lyceel here is the same top image desaturated (Blue) not all the blue was taken out it worked out to be -78.

 

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Interesting.  You could make the argument that this method blends in with the background better, because the white highlight is still prominent there.  On the other hand, the color replacement method isn't exactly a sharp cutoff between sky and bird either.  Honestly, I'm not sure which method I prefer.

lyceel:

Interesting.  You could make the argument that this method blends in with the background better, because the white highlight is still prominent there.  On the other hand, the color replacement method isn't exactly a sharp cutoff between sky and bird either.  Honestly, I'm not sure which method I prefer.

The question is chromatic aberration and that was all I dealt with in a manner that I have found to be the easiest way to do it I wasn't concerned with the rest of the image as far as overexposed sky was concerned only the chromatics part any work done in photoshop is done in a work flow and for me chromatics would be one of the first things I do and then go about the rest 

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My photo gallery http://thekiwi.org/photography/index.php

Oh, I understand that.  I'm not sure it's worth doing anything about the sky, personally.  I think the blooming just to the left of the bird adds a certain drama to the photo (I'm imagining a photo of a singer on stage with a spotlight in the background, that kind of effect).

I was just comparing my method and yours and trying to decide which one looks more natural.  In your version, the desaturated blue area kind of adds a little bit of extra bloom, which you might expect to see in a shot like this.  In my version, that extra bloom isn't there (although there is a little bit of bloom).  If I had to do it again, I'm not sure which method I would use.  They both end up looking pretty good.