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Preventing shadow/highlight clipping

Preventing shadow/highlight clipping - Photoshop Tutorial

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Preventing shadow/highlight clipping

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- In this movie, I'll introduce you to the shadows and highlights option's, which help you to prevent the clipping of shadows and highlights respectively. And so the first thing I'm going to do to slim down the size of this exercise file, is select the lower fish layer and press the backspace key here on a PC or the delete key on the Mac to get rid of it. Then, I'll go ahead and double click on smart sharpen, in order to bring up the smart sharpen dialog box, and I'm going to click on this little bluish detail right there, notice this little guy I'm going to zoom in on it, so that we can see it very closely. Actually, I'll zoom in just a little more and notice if I click and drag, which turns off the preview for a moment, it's obviously blue but then when I release, you can see that the inside has gone white, thanks to the halo that's been drawn by the radius value. And so what we have is effectively a clipped highlight, I…

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