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		IshKebab on Aug 13, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Unbounded High Dynamic Range Photography Using a M... They're talking about the pixel brightness values getting saturated (255), not colour saturation. But I've never heard over-saturation being used to refer to brightness saturation - brightness is either saturated or not.

ssalazar on Aug 13, 2015 [–]

I'd guess whoever wrote the article subtitle comes from an EE or DSP background, where saturation refers to blowing out the ends of the dynamic range and clipping/distorting.

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