1. A method for correcting colored fringe artifacts in a region of an image around saturated pixels captured by an electronic imager associated with a color filter array, comprising: (a) providing a threshold map of the image based on thresholding one or more color channels with a common or separate threshold value for each color channel; (b) providing a first edge map by dilating the threshold map as a function of the color fringe width, producing a first dilated threshold map and subtracting the threshold map from the first dilated threshold map; and (c) color-desaturating image pixels that correspond to the first edge map.