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Previewing clipped pixels

Previewing clipped pixels - Photoshop Tutorial

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Previewing clipped pixels

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- In this movie, I'll show you how to preview your clipped pixels directly inside the image window. Cause the idea is that at this point right here, notice there are just a few pixels right there, at 63, that are now turning black. And there're a few pixels at 219 and brighter that are turning white. And while I know that there's not very many of them, based on this histogram, I have no idea where they are inside the image window. And so if you want to preview exactly what's clipping, what's going to black and what's going to white, go ahead and click on the fly out menu icon, in the upper right corner of the properties panel, and choose Show Clipping for Black/White Points. And by the way, you're only going to see this command if a levels adjustment layer is active. At any rate, I'm going to go ahead and turn that command on. And now notice, as soon as I start dragging this white point triangle right there, I'm starting to see all kinds of colors show up in the image window. And then…

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