The colors of this photo will appear different to everyone. I think?

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23qwerty said:
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No.
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alr1ght said:
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Picked separately they are a very light blue and definitely gold/brown.
 
Haly said:
The thread title is pretty clear on this front.



This "black and blue" nonsense would be right if the question was "what do you think the colors of the dress in this photo are?", but it's not.
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Uh, it's black and blue. Superior eyeballs reporting in.
 
Zomba13 said:
If the dress was in fact black and blue, like the one posted so much, wouldn't the blue be a deeper, richer blue and not a pale lighter blue people keep saying it is? Same with the "black" wouldn't it be, you know, black and now a dark brownish/yellow/gold? Especially when a picture was taken of it in the shade.
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Collingwood said:
They have a white one. The original pic would have had its levels fucked with because there is no universe in which DARK blue looks LIGHTER in the shade.
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It has nothing to do with the imaginary shade.

The photograph is overexposed, washing out the blue.

There's a black and white cloth/dress/something in the bottom left corner, right behind the dress. If the dress was so clearly a white cloth in the shade, then that object would almost definitely be shaded blue as well. It's not.
 
I'm seeing the light parts as bluer now, but still nowhere near as blue as the actual dress.
What was brownish gold is still the same brownish gold.
Some of the detail to the bottom-left of the dress is much, much closer to black than anything on the dress, both in luminance and saturation.
 
I see a washed-out picture of a blue and black dress. If you're asking the absolute colours I see in that picture, without mentally compensating for the washed-out-edness, the dress is blue and the black bits go from dark brown at the bottom to brown-y gold at the top. It's never looked remotely white to me for a second; not white in shadow, not white under a blue light, not pale blueish white, just blue.
 
Collingwood said:
Because those of us with working eyes know that white can look light blue in the shade. Hence, we know its white and gold. Which it is.
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This post is more the mental processing. Even so it's not at all the right color temperature for white to look blue, and it would require it to be fully in the shade. Even in the correct color temperature for shadows of white to appear blue it still would be easy to process what actual color the dress is from the surroundings.

I'm guessing this phenomenon may be influenced by the devices people are viewing this thread on, such mobiles under various different conditions. As it's been analyzed to death what the photo colors are, and what the actual dress colors are.
 
ShemhazaiX said:
The thing is, it's very important to distinguish whether you are able to contextualise the colour of the dress without the exposure, purely so we know where your arguments are coming from. You say that you don't understand why people are saying black, but is that just because you're interpreting the question as "What colours are you looking at"? Until we know what you think the dress looks like without exposure, we can't tell whether the difference in colour is down to the way you're processing the colour or the way you're interpreting the question.

So if you honestly can't understand how people are contextualising the image as black and blue, then all it means is that your eyes / brain aren't able to tell which way the colour has shifted based on colour context.

There's basically four kinds of people when it comes to being able to tell what colour the dress is IRL:

1) The people who are able to accurately tell how the dress colour has been shifted.
2) The people who can tell the colour is shifted, but aren't picking up the context right (they think it's been shifted colder making white seem more blue, where in actuality the opposite is true)
3) People who are a blank slate and their mind is constantly changing its interpretation of how the image should be.
4) People who can't do any of these.

There's obviously a second argument going on about what colour the actual pixels are, which is actually a lot less relevant because no one was actually arguing the true colour of the pixels.
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THIS IS SO WRONG

We all know the original dress is dark blue and black. We are all commenting on the image. We care about the colour of the dress in the image, not IRL.

I don't care about that. The pixels say blue and brown, that is what I see. I see that actual colour of the image.

I NOW know for a fact that the idea that people who see blue and black is actually a troll. It's not a real study or anything.

If you look at where the text in the OP came from, it is just an opinion, which happens to be false.

This is what I was so worked up about, the idea that we were supposed to see the colours different to what they actually are.

On my tablet I can zoom in as much as I want on the images. When I zoom out I see the same colours.

I think people are really just posting what they mean by "colour".
 
Soka said:
I had the image open on my Facebook when I found this thread. I saw the original as white and gold. Then I came to your post and saw the black and blue one. Now when I look back at the Facebook page I see it as black and blue. Same exact image, I didn't even reload the page. Holy what the fuck shit is going on with my mind.
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Your brain now has the details it was looking for. I at first saw it as white and gold too until I saw a similar image that fixed the brightness and exposure levels. Now when I look at the original image I can only see it in blue and black.
 
That dress is a monster!!! First time I saw it the colors were black and blue. Then for the next hour it was white and gold. Now it's back to black and blue! Aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh
 
When I see this on my computer, it's white and gold.

When I view it on my phone, it's blue and black.


...I'm losing my mind.
 
Chezzymann said:
I don't think its necessarily color blindness as the actual colors in the image are in fact brown and light blue, it's just taken in a very particular way that makes it confusing for people who see the white and gold to compensate for the overexposure and as a result do not interpret it correctly as black and blue. In other words its an optical illusion.
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Yep 100%

A crazy illusion as well. I've never seen one like this where the colors for a large section of a photo have totally shifted to my vision. I've seen both but now only blue and black
 
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