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Illegal colors

Colors that force a color system to go outside its normal bounds. Usually these are the result of electronically painted images rather than direct camera outputs. For example, removing the luminance from a high intensity blue or adding luminance to a strong yellow in a paint system may well send a subsequent NTSC or PAL coded signal too high or low, producing at least inferior results and maybe causing technical problems. Out of gamut detectors can be used to warn of possible problems.

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