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Photography Forums
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swanseamale47
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Date Posted:
Jan/20/2013 7:15 AM
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If you use raw in photoshop/lightroom you'll probably have the highlight and shadow clipping warning turned on, now wouldn't it be nice to have the same feature when you use levels in photoshop proper, after all not everybody uses the raw part of photoshop.
Well you can, you can hold down the alt key while moving the sliders, this shows you where clipping will be but doesn't show the image properly ( turning it white or black)which makes it a bit trickier to work out exactly whats clipping.
Personally I think a better way is to make your own clipping indicator.
go to layers/ajustment layer/inverse, this will turn your image into a negative, now on the layers palette click the FX for the layer styles palette, now set it as shown here
Note the red channel is unticked and I've set this layer to 253 and 2, this brings just a hint of detail into shadows/highlights so you don't clip to pure black/white, the red channel bit you'll see in a minute.
Now click back onto your background layer (your pic) and use levels/curves, you see the highlights showing up as bright red and the shadows a blue colour.
Easily made into an action.
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carrollove
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Date Posted:
Jul/31/2013 7:37 AM
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Cool. I want to qualitatively see, in the image, where the clipping is occuring. That is far more useful. Every other program I use implements it graphically in the preview window, some even break it down by channel, i'm wondering why GIMP doesn't? .. mmmm cool share anyway 
Message edited by: carrollove on 07/31/2013 07:37:23
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