Distribution of the VMC sources from tile LMC 3_3 in the colour–magnitude diagrams (Y, Y−J) on the left and (K_s, J−K_s) on the right. Different types of detections are colour-coded as follows. Sources with a stellar or a galaxy profile which are detected in three bands are shown in black and blue, respectively. Similar sources detected only in two bands are shown in red and turquoise.