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Old 05-16-2013, 06:58 AM
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Default There's no such thing as "true" black.

I have been looking up care info on my Fdk. After Dark. I keep running into debates on black orchids (and other types of flowers for that matter), and in every single discussion somebody-- or everybody-- expresses disappointment or even contempt, that this plant or that plant doesn't have "true" black flowers. Turns out-- gasp!-- if you look REALLY CLOSELY, it's a dark purple, or a dark red, or a dark brown, or whatever.



Okay, look. There IS no such thing as "twue black". There really isn't. That's one of the first things an art student learns in color and design or painting classes. If you look close enough, your black sweatshirt, your black patent leather shoes, your black hair-- damn near everything is a really dark shade of some actual color. Even charcoal. Even when you close your eyes, there are colors in that darkness. Even the night sky has color (especially if you live in LA ).

In Photoshop, when you turn a color all the way down to black, it has no hue any longer. That's not how things work in real life. A very dark object or substance can still have a very rich, complex color, even if it's barely perceptible to the human eye. Even in photoshop, when you turn a color all the way to black, you're left with the color of the surface of your screen.

If a flower is dark enough that people can glance at it and say, "Wow, that looks black!", isn't that close enough? What are we looking for, a flower that sucks in all the light that hits it, forms a singularity, and then eats the planet??

Yeah, some are blacker than others. But still. None of them will ever be TOTALLY black.


So, like... chill, people.
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