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title: "Highlight clipping"
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description: "When highlight values exceed the sensor maximum capacity and saturate to white — losing all detail in that area. Once clipped, information is unrecovera..."
updated: 2026-10-25
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# Highlight clipping

When highlight values exceed the sensor maximum capacity and saturate to white — losing all detail in that area. Once clipped, information is unrecoverable (except partial recovery from non-clipped channels).

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## Related terms

[Highlight recovery](https://postproduction.studio/en/glossary/highlight-recovery)[ETTR (Expose To The Right)](https://postproduction.studio/en/glossary/ettr)[False color](https://postproduction.studio/en/glossary/false-color)