clipped highlights

RGB Histogram Video Tutorial

Photoshop produces red, green and blue histograms inside an RGB image, when it's done it puts the results into a composite version and displays it as the standard view. How that composite view is calculated decides how we see clipping inside our images - and as you'll bear witness, things aren't always what they seem!

Reading the Histogram Video Tutorial

It's time to realise that those cleverly spoken words were actually a full-blown conversation between the pixels in our image and our ears, spoken by the soothing voice of the histogram. Now comes the time to understand terms such as contrast, clipping and other references used in the world of photography such as high and low key images.