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

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EskimoJoe said:
It is fascinating. I guess my theory doesn't really account for the people who see white and gold, even after seeing the actual color of the dress. It could just have to do with the fact that people tend to not change their minds. That once and answer is in your brain, it tends to stick there, no matter how much you try to budge it. But then there's the people that did have their minds' changed...
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I'm compensating for the fact that (physical, subtractive) white is only truly white under intense white light.
When you go see a movie in a theater the "blacks" are still white screen. Everything is.
 
Has this been posted ?

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Oh my god. I think AM seeing what people are calling blue and black, but completely refuse on calling a clearly colourful colour black.

Did I ever see it as white and gold... Now I am not sure.
 
Wait, wtf. When I first loaded the thread it was white and gold. Now when I look at the OP it looks blue/black?!

I've been had, haven't I >.>
 
bobeth said:
There is no failure involved, since the overexposure is not real! We see what's there, light blue and brown..
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The effect of the overexposure at time of capture is real, your eyes have no further information to go on in this case and some aren't able to compensate for this effect (or at least not immediately). Which is why when someone manually alters the levels of the image in Photoshop to compensate in a different way, people who saw white and gold originally can start to benefit from a counter to the original overexposure.
 
Scrooged said:
The white is actually a light tan color and the black parts are see through. When you add shitty overexposure and odd lighting you get the light blue and gold dress in the OP.

Case closed.
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so the person who posted the dress initially then posted it in better lighting is having a laugh?
 
White & Gold friends - if you scroll really fast on your phone, can you see the blue and black for a split second? What about when you close your phone and open it? Both these methods work for me, but they turn back into white and gold eventually.
 
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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You might want to get those working eyes checked out.

I mean yeah, things that are outside in the shade can look blue-tinted because that's the color of the sky. But this dress is clearly innately blue and not merely reflecting the ambient light of the sky.
 
Looking at it normally, it's white/gold underneath a bluish shadow. If I squint, I definitely see where the black/blue side is coming from.

But yeah, the shadow is the main variable here. Take it away, and it's clearly white/gold
 
So, let me get this straight.

The original dress is blue and black. However, the photo in the OP was modified in some way (over-exposed apparently), and now it's "white" (a blueish white) and gold. If you pick the colors individually they ARE in fact white and gold.

The optical illusion is that, despite it being modified, some of us still see it as blue and black, right?
 
It all depends on your orientation, brightness and monitor. A TN display while looking a certain angle will produce a black and blue look. If I look straight at my monitor then it is white and gold, but if I slightly lean back then it turns blue and black or if i angle myself to the monitor differently then it changes.
 
WAIT

WTF.

Looking at that blue corrected image, the white goldness faded into blue again. WTF

I'm not even joking. what the hell I had the image screenshotted and pasted in paint, so I know it didn't change

EDIT: and it's white again
 
I think there's some dark stripes on the dress that's darker than others. it's a little weird because the upper half looks black and the bottom half looks very dark brownish.
 
If you just look at the dress and make that your reference for white, then it will appear that the dress is gold and white under a bluish lighting.

If you look at the upper right background and make that your reference for white, the dress will appear light blue and either gold or black, depending on whether you take the photos exposure into consideration.

You can interpret this image in those three ways pretty easily, and switch between those interpretations at will. It's all about reference points. It's also why your rooms lighting, as well as your displays calibration will affect your interpretation.

The actual colors in the photo are clearly light blue and gold though.
 
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