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In photography, 'clipping' is the loss image information in a region of a photograph is brighter than what the imaging device can handle or outside the color gamut of the space used to represent the photograph. It is an instance of signal clipping in the image domain. Bright clipped areas are sometimes called "blown-out highlights". With digital cameras, the clipped area will often turn to pure white and will not contain any detail. For example, it is not unusual for a bright sky area to be clipped to white.
Clipping can occur in the image sensor, where it is called ''saturation''; or at the analog-to-digital converter (ADC); or in the processing and rendering to a standard color space. Depending on where clipping occurs, and on whether raw data is still available, the clipping may be repairable.

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★ Exposure (photography)