Roy: : In term of visual meaning Dan is right. In inkjet printing white is the : absents of dye or pigment and black is a lot of dye or pigment. Thus white : becomes the color of the paper base whether white , cream or even gold if : printed on gold foil paper. : In Russ's picture if he wanted white he could easily obtain it by : using the magic wand in PS and changing the background to any color(s) : (including white). However in a traditional portrait gray is a good choice. : Roy I KNEW it would come this with digital! Graphic designers maintained white was the absence, photographers the opposite, comprehending that the 'colour' we see is a reflection of light(s) from an object, thus a white object is reflecting all the colours while a 'black' object is only black because it absorbed all the light both are right, but each is approaching things from their perspective - now the lines are blurred.. we once saw the world as RGB, now we're mixing it with CpCMpMYpKK (with RG thown in by Canon ;) k
