Does Aperture have Exposure help?

Hi,
I have only been using Aperture for a very short amount of time and thus may have overlooked this feature.
In Camera Raw when viewing a RAW files I can hold down alt whilst moving the exposure slider, then it will show me if my Highlights / low-lights are blown?
Does Aperture have similar functionality?
Grant

it sure does, at least of the highlights. from the view menu choose "highlight hot spots" or something like that. i think the keyboard short cut is Option-Shift-H.
with this menu item enabled, as you slide the exposure (or any other adjustment for that matter) you'll see the hot spots highlighted in red.
hope that was helpful.
scott
PowerMac G5 2.5GHz Mac OS X (10.4.8) MacBook Pro 2.0GHz

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