Pesky lines, fringing?

[John.D]

Hi, I was playing around in Lightroom with a shot I took, and I like the effect achieved from (I think) pushing the fill light up to max and compensating with other sliders. However this brings about some problems as I have getting 'hard edges' which I think is called fringing? Here's an example from a part of a gritty/grainy image which is what i'm aiming for, and I like the effect of the glow around the head the slider has achieved but i've ended up with the 'lines/hard edges'
http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/9268/book4wip.jpg

And another example, more obvious - http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/5021/port7ex.jpg

Any way to easily combat this?

 

[specialman]

The only real way is to be really careful with the fill light slider. I've found this a problem so if I really want to get around it I tend to output the image at different exposure levels and then use exposure blending in CS3 to merge the different exposures; that way you can combine some serious fill light without getting the hard edge.

It's basically the program not understanding what something should look like, only what it';s told to do. Shame really because it's one of only a few flaws in LR.