Maybe it's a dumb question and maybe I have been processing all my images in the wrong way but, why would somebody want to clip the shadows before retouching? I mean I usually leave "blacks slider" to 0 and push down the shadows either with parametric or point curves, this way I can recover shadow information in a later stage if I need to. Shouldn't this be the reasonable workflow? Why does adobe put this control there? Is just for people who don't retouch later (sending photo to print)? Or there is another reason I don't know and I should be using it instead of curves for some reason?
Arnau