Good way to know whether a color is part of shadows, midtones or highlights?

Hi!
Once again I realized there is a embarrasing gap in my AE-knowledge: I don't know how I can accurately see whether a certain color is being read as part of the shadows, midtones or highlights of an image. I'm sure there is some easy way that I just can't think of, so that's why I'm asking your help on this. Any tips will be appreciated! Thanks!

Another way to do it:
Apply Color Finesse to the clip in question, then enter the full Color Finesse UI. Click the Luma Ranges tab in the upper right.
Shadow areas will be rendered as black, midtones and gray, and highlights as white.
Not that there is such a sharp difference between the definitions of shadow/midtone/highlight, but it gives a nice quick idea of what's what.

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