Rodney, You are on the right track in assuming you need to do more in Photoshop. Over the past 4 weeks I have been working with Mark Locker to resolve a similar problem. The solution is to NOT use the Export function in Lightroom to save the image as a jpeg to be uploaded to BLP.
I will do a write up on this shortly, but to help you now, can you outlined how you converted your edited RAW image to a jpeg to upload to BLP. Your problem may not be the same as Mark's, so I need some more info before I can help resolve your problem.
Cheers, Bob

Hi Rodney, as Ian flags you will get this issue in reds and yellows. I find it a common problem with King Parrots and Robins where the reds are very easy to 'blow out'.

I would suggest you try a couple of things in the first instance (these can be done in Lightroom). Keep the Highlight Clipping warning on when you do this:

1. Adjust the brightness, particularly (as Glenn suggests) using the highlights slider and possibly the whites slider. You can do this globally, or you can use the local adjustment brushes to select the red areas.
2. Play around with the brightness and saturation of the reds using the HSL tab and the red slider.

In either case, be careful not to overdo it, particularly the HSL (its easy to reduce the nice bright reds to a kind of muddy colour). In my experience there is a bit of trial and error involved to get the optimal result. Robins also have the issue of deep blacks, and vivid white patches, so getting the brightness/shadows/whites/blacks levels will need some care.

Simon

Hi Bob,

I just use the Export function as is.

Cheers,

Rodney.

Since this thread has gone off on a discussion of what can be done in post-processing to recover blown highlights, it might first be worth establishing whether or not the highlights are actually blown in the RAW data. To do this you will need to look at the RAW image RGB values in editing software that provides this information. You can examine this kind of data in software like DC Raw, Raw Digger and Raw Therapee (but not LR which bins the data into 255 samples for display and analysis).

Yes, you are right it has wandered a little off-topic. I must admit if I need to start to get this complicated it would have to be a spectacular shot. At this point, I think the best thing is for me to work on taking a better picture anyway but thank you for the additional information.

I think you are being given multiple options and software solutions to deal with this: to provide flexibility of choice about what you'd like to use (and based on experience of what does the best job). I can understand this might look complicated now but I don't think it should be in reality. By using your preferred software for RAW processing, then photo editing, the process is actually fairly basic and simple once you've done it a few times. It all involve the same basic things that should be done when first processing a raw file (adjustment to white balance, exposure, highlights, shadows, black point and white point). Then the fine tuning in Photoshop, lightroom or whatever editor you have to make localised adjustments to contrast, colour, tonal range, noise etc. The aim is to do the minimum to recover an acceptable result and hopefully use the most effective software for the job, based on recommendations that preceded this.