Possible to show blown highlights in photoshop CS5?

Hi all,

In Adobe Camera RAW, pressing U on the keyboard displays all the underexposed areas that have no detail in them. They turn a blue colour.

Pressing O changes all the blown highlights to red.

This is extremely useful in my opinion. I picked up a 6x7 Lastolite Hilite today, and did a few brief test shots. Getting the break between the floor/backdrop white is bugging me. When I think I have it, I don't. Later on, I notice there's a visible grey line.

So I'm wondering if Photoshop has a keyboard shortcut (or tool within it, except the eyedropper tool, which is marginally useful at best) to automatically display the blown highlights/underexposed shadows the same way Camera RAW does it?

I've Googled to no avail


Cheers

Borderfox

Maybe this
http://www.damiensymonds.com.au/tut_clip.html

Cheers for that Borderfox. Not exactly ideal, but it'll have to do I suppose.

You'd think they'd just put the ACR shortcuts into CS5. It's the same company making both programmes. Ahh.. common sense. Who needs it!? :P

Borderfox

As an alternate to that you can use Adobe Bridge and right click on a jpeg and open in ACR directly and use the same highlight/shadow function?

Yeah, I know about that alright, but bridge seems very inconsistent on mine. Sometimes it's fine, other times it doesn't want to work, so I was hoping there was a similar quick fix for CS5.

I'm not sure if it's possible to open multiple Jpegs in ACR at once. I must take a look when I get to the desktop again. Would be much handier.

Promac

Select more than 1 jpeg in bridge and then "Open in camera raw..." from the right-click menu.

Unfortunately I can't seem to do that. One image at a time is fine, but multiples and the Open in Raw option is removed from the list

5uspect

You could add a threshold adjustment layer mixed with a solid colour layer and make it part of an action or script.

sineadw

Levels layer, then hold down shift (or is it alt?) while pulling in either side shows blown blacks/whites. Never tried and not near a computer now, but it should work for what you want?

stcstc

yes its ALT, add an adjustment layer of level

hold alt and click the right arrow, and everything will go black that isnt clipped

Ah that Alt + Levels arrow thing seems to do the job alright!

Grand stuff. Cheers!