How much do you look at the colour clipping indicators in rawtherapee/darktable?

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Just curious among fellow photographers, how much you care for the clipping indicators and trying to reduce them if they appear to show clipping? i seem to be regularly editing images, that i am happy with, and look fine to my eyes, but show clipping in one of the channels, but it doesnt look like say a big block of Red, even though it indicates its blown, theres still the other channels in there that havent clipped, Green and blue. S am i right to generally not be too fussed about them showing?

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I don’t use them at all. If the colors look ok I trust them to be ok. The only clipping indicator I use is the raw clipping indicator (SHIFT-O).

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Not very often!

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Same here.

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For me, the clipping tool, when set to anything but luminance only, is almost never relevant. In “luminance only” mode it gets used frequently.

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Not very often, except for photos with a a lot of white area’s like snow or with big white birds (swan’s etc)

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Never. Only lightness clipping for me.

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Shortly after being introduced to scene-referred workflow with Filmic RGB (circa late 2021), I was always trying to minimize gamut clipping in Darktable. As a result, my photos mostly looked pretty dull, so as time went by, I used it less and less. Nowadays I check it if I’m pushing the colors and adjust sliders only if there is A LOT of clipping.

I tend to check luminance clipping mainly to get my blacks somewhat right, but other than that, I just go by looks – I don’t want it to feel like a job where you’re forced to meet some criteria.

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It’s a warning, not an error. If the image is tricky, I may use them to highlight areas of concern, but only so I don’t miss things when I’m working quickly. If it looks good, it is good, they just help me know where to look.

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I never use the color clipping indicators. I simply use my eyes and how it looks on the screen. I do however, use the RAW clipping indicators to see if I have any data for DT to work with in the highlights. If I have blown out my highlights in the raw data then I would prefer to use a darker exposure. I bracket all the time so I normally have one that is dark enough.

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Both in camera and in Darktable, I use my eyes. I often blow out things intentionally, so clipping is expected.

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