Lightroom Classic (or Photoshop) Removing Halos

[Diane in Ohio]

I've spent over an hour looking for videos online and trying things out, but I have yet to find a simple way to REMOVE HALOS on so many of my images!  I usually wind up spending an hour cloning them out.  I just don't know what to do.  

I don't know if it's easier to do it in LrC or PS, but I just need help, as this is so very frustrating and I'm getting tired of doing this tedious cloning!

Thank you!

Diane

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[Rob_Cullen]

It could be advantageous to know 'Why' or 'How' the halos are being created in the first place.

eg. Are you Over-sharpening?

And there is a Photoshop Brush technique in this link-

https://www.capturelandscapes.com/how-to-quickly-fix-edge-halos-in-photoshop/

[Keith Reeder]

What do you mean by halos?

Let's see an example.

[Rob_Cullen]

@Keith Reeder  I assumed the OP is refering to this type of artefact- Can be caused by Over-Sharpening, or selective Brush Adjustments, or Masking that doesn't work so well.

[Diane in Ohio]

Thank you.

I have no idea how it happened because they are images for many years ago
that I recently opened to edit.

Diane G.

[Keith Reeder]

That's that I expect too, Rob - but I know how bent out of shape some people get when they think you've assumed...

You hint at the point I would have made, though: if we're talking about over-sharpening halos, you don't want to remove them, you want to make sure they don't happen in the first place, so I'd still like to see what Diane is seeing. 

[Diane in Ohio]

Hello all.

Here's an example. It's from a picture maybe 6-7 years ago but I've been
finding a lot like this and I wind up cloning each line out inch by inch,
and I gave up with that.

I have NO idea where those lines come, I know nothing about them or how
they're even created. Perhaps there was some editing on these 6-7 years
ago, but I don't know. There's a few I want to keep and fix, but this is
too much work to clone this all out by hand.

See attached. Thank you.

Diane G.

[AxelMatt]

@Diane in Ohio There's no attachment.

[Diane in Ohio]

Not sure what to say. The attachment was there because I "bcc'd" myself to
make sure.

Here it is again.

Thanks.

[Rikk Flohr: Photography]

There is no attachment in your post.  

[AxelMatt]

There's already nothing to see. Please don't attach something, to insert screenshots, please use the "Insert Photos" icon in the toolbar.

[Diane in Ohio]

Sorry. No idea what that means. Not familiar with using this process.
When I hit reply I'm in a "regular" email on my computer screen.

Thank you.

[Diane in Ohio]

Let's try this.

[Sean McCormack]

Hi Diane, this looks like an oversharpened JPEG, which is where the halo is coming from, as predicted by @Rob_Cullen. Have you tried using a brush with negative sharpening applied? From 0 to -50 sharpness is removed, from -50 to -100 it acts as a lens blur, so keep it above those. 

[Diane in Ohio]

Hello, and thanks for your response!  Those are older images and the image, for the sake of sending it here, was super blown up.  I do not know what "negative sharpening" is nor what 0 to -50 or from -50 to -100 means.  Perhaps I can Google what this means and how to do this.  I don't even remember what editing program I had when the problem pictures were taken. Certainly not the full version of Photoshop!  Thanks again!

[Keith Reeder]

LightRoom (this is the LightRoom Classic forum, Diane) really isn't the tool for a job like selectively editing aberrations like these, but I really wouldn't want to to it with PhotoShop either.

Far better to go back to the original RAW files and re-convert them, without the excessive sharpening.

[Sean McCormack]

We'll definitely need to see a photo to know what you mean exactly. Some camera and lens details too as there may be a solution before even getting to the post processing. 

[Rob_Cullen]

If the images are RGB (JPG, TIFF) then removing the halos (embedded in the pixel data of the image) will be near impossible without the frustration you mention.

Like you are "Up the creek without a paddle" and no tool, in either LrC or Ps, will do the job easily.

[Diane in Ohio]

Thanks.  Not a lot of them I'm considering using, but I work really quickly with cloning so I'll get through it a few times more.  Thanks again!