99.965 per cent absorption - the New Black

[xpatUSA]

Quite fascinating - although I understand that Real Photographers may not like Vanterblack:

https://www.dpreview.com/news/402003...s-in-the-world

Paupers might be interested in a mere 99.5 per cent absorbance from KoPro.

P.S. it occurs to me that said materials don't help much if one's monitor puts out some cd/m2 at 0/255 input or if some white shows through the black splodges in your print ...

... e.g. how black is black?

[pschlute]

Quite fascinating - although I understand that Real Photographers may not like Vanterblack:

https://www.dpreview.com/news/402003...s-in-the-world

Paupers might be interested in a mere 99.5 per cent absorbance from KoPro.

I ordered some from them recently....but I couldn't find their office.

[DanK]

Or simply zero out the output on a levels adjustment. That will produce as black a background as your monitor or printer can produce, no?

The only difficulty is that this cheaper option requires making a selection, but I've found that's often not hard.

[xpatUSA]

Or simply zero out the output on a levels adjustment. That will produce as black a background as your monitor or printer can produce, no?

sí.

The only difficulty is that this cheaper option requires making a selection, but I've found that's often not hard.

If I'm making a mask with the GIMP's "threshold" option, the "jet" black comes ready-made ...