Talk:Color Manipulation/@comment-74.96.100.137-20111201002928/@comment-68.14.144.96-20120302154120

White means all the colors are reflected into your eye and none are absorbed. There's a lack of color absorbed, but all the colors go into your eye, and black works the opposite way. In paint, black is all colors put together, but with light, white is made up of all the colors. So really it's both, depending how you look at it.