STEP BY STEP Understanding Clipping warnings

Switch on this handy vidual guide to discover precisely where exposure problems lie

01 Turn on clipping warning

In DPP, click the Edit Image button. Set the Comparison Layout to Arrange Horizontally. Click the Show Highlight/ Shadow Warning icon. Underexposed shadows will appear in blue. Blown-out highlights will appear as patches of red.

02 lighten The shadows

Drag Brightness Adjustment to 0.17. Drag the histogram’s midpoint slider to -1.20 and the Advanced section’s Shadow slider to 5 to lighten shadows. The blue patches will diminish, revealing shadow detail. Push Highlight to -5.

03 adjust The Threshold

Click the fly-out arrow next to the Show Highlights/shadow Warning. To reduce the range of the clipping warning, drop the value to 22. Click Close and you’ll have a lower shadow clipping threshold, so fewer midtones will appear in blue.