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

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The Real Abed said:
I can totally understand people seeing gold in the black. It does have a gold tint to it but thats because it's a completely shitty camera. I've taken plenty of photos of black things that come out gold because of the lighting and horrible sensors.

But the blue being white? That's where your eyes are broken. It's clearly blue even in that shitty photograph. No amount of squinting in the world could make it white at all.

The part that surprises me is how many of you are saying you keep seeing it differently as time goes on. That to me seems like a medical problem people should get checked.


Also, I'm really sad that Taylor Swift knows it's blue and black, but Nathan Fillion thinks it's white and gold. How could you Nathan?


It did? It's still the same purple and green it's always been for me.
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Its not a medical problem and no one's eyes are broken. Its an optical illusion. This is how people see the blue as being white. Its all about figuring out the context around the clothes to arrive at the actual color of them in real life (Which is black and blue of course), not the color of the clothes in the image themselves (Which are in fact brown and light blue, not black and blue).

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whitehawk said:
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While I understand there are lots of blue pixels on the right image, it still looks like a white and gold dress, just in poor lighting.
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The one on the left is what I originally saw. Now I see the one on the right, but not as dark. Left is white/gold completely, right is blue/black completely.
 
Jobbs said:
I'm starting to think some people just have displays that are calibrated a bit different so midtones appear darker, and so they are able to see it as blue and black. I think this must be the explanation.
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I wonder if it's also the brain realizing what it's "supposed" to be seeing and correcting itself.
 
DJ88 said:
Dude!

Keep ignoring my post with the link to the tumblr of the same person who posted the original pic!

http://swiked.tumblr.com/post/112164479015/can-we-have-more-pictures-of-the-dress-please-we

Lighting! How does it work?
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I wasn't ignoring it man, I saw that. It can't be the same because the photo that started all this nonsense was of a white and gold dress, with the white having a light blue hue to the shade over it.
Dominator said:
That is the exact same dress in both pictures. The same one.
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Then someone did some pshopping with the intent of some internet chaos.

And they succeeded.
 
Is this some sort of thing to call out all of us old people? You know like not being able to hear over a certain decibel level?

It white and gold. And yes I'm old.
 
OH wooooooooooooooooow, I did the scroll-from-the-bottom-slowly trick and now it's black and blue!!

It was white and gold every time I looked at it until I did that.
 
The Artisan said:
I wasn't ignoring it man, I saw that. It can't be the same because the photo that started all this nonsense was of a white and gold dress, with the white having a light blue hue to the shade over it.

Then someone did some pshopping with the intent of some internet chaos.

And they succeeded.
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You are wrong. The actual dress is black and blue. That is the exact same dress.

The image itself is not edited in photoshop, but over exposed.

Honestly, you may see it as white and gold and that is find, I can too, but if you understood that the background is overbright you would know there is no way the gold part got DARKER in the process.

This phenomenon has nothing to do with what the actual dress looks like however, it is all about the image,
 
From my perspective I see white and gold but when I go to the other side of the room and take my glasses off it becomes blue and black.

That sure is interesting.
 
The Artisan said:
I wasn't ignoring it man, I saw that. It can't be the same because the photo that started all this nonsense was of a white and gold dress, with the white having a light blue hue to the shade over it.

Then someone did some pshopping with the intent of some internet chaos.

And they succeeded.
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Look at the post a few above you.

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I thought it was white with a shade over it at first too.

It's blue with an artificial yellowish light shinning on it.

No photoshop man.
 
izunadono said:
You are wrong. The actual dress is black and blue. That is the exact same dress.

The image itself is not edited in photoshop, but over exposed.

Honestly, you may see it as white and gold and that is find, I can too, but if you understood that the background is overbright you would know there is no way the gold part got DARKER in the process.

This phenomenon has nothing to do with what the actual dress looks like however, it is all about the image,
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how does an overexposure turn black into gold? I can understand the white turning to blue because white looks like blue when theres prominent shadows, but how the fuck does gold turn to black?

I swear, if there was a poll attached, the vast majority would pick white/gold.

not for the color of the actual dress, but the colors of the dress from what it appears in that stupidass OG image.
 
I'm part of the black and blue master race :)

I actually don't see white in any context no matter what the brightness of my screen is, I can't comprehend at all how people are seeing white and gold.
 
The Artisan said:
how does an overexposure turn black into gold? I can understand the white turning to blue because white looks like blue when theres prominent shadows, but how the fuck does gold turn to black?

I swear, if there was a poll attached, the vast majority would pick white/gold.

not for the color of the actual dress, but the colors of the dress from what it appears in that stupidass OG image.
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I would've picked white/gold at the start.

Now I would pick blue/black...

This is how wars start.
 
The Artisan said:
how does an overexposure turn black into gold? I can understand the white turning to blue because white looks like blue when theres prominent shadows, but how the fuck does gold turn to black?

I swear, if there was a poll attached, the vast majority would pick white/gold.

not for the color of the actual dress, but the colors of the dress from what it appears in that stupidass OG image.
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The ambient bouncing warm light source is catching off the sheen of the black fabric.
 
I think everyone who is posting their thoughts from now on should stipulate the following with their answer:

Is it the actual pixel value of the colors in the dress or are you interpreting what the colors of the dress are in real life, had you been in the store yourself?
 
The Artisan said:
how does an overexposure turn black into gold? I can understand the white turning to blue because white looks like blue when theres prominent shadows, but how the fuck does gold turn to black?

I swear, if there was a poll attached, the vast majority would pick white/gold.

not for the color of the actual dress, but the colors of the dress from what it appears in that stupidass OG image.
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Uhhhhhh do you know what exposure means?

But yeah, the colours of the actual image is what we are talking about.

When it changes you will be so shocked. Keep looking at it at intervals.
 
When a friend first showed me that pic I saw the colors blue and black.

Then when I see it again here, the black part was yellow and the blue part was white.

So I go back to the pic my friend showed me to see if it looked different.

It wasn't.

I look back at the pic in the OP and it's back to blue and black....

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Kojirospath said:
Damn, picture started out white and gold for me but the longer I look, the bluer and blacker it gets... Some brain screwery here.
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Yep that just happened to me right now.
 
Holy shit, haha...

It now only looks blue and black to me. Is this for real, or has the source image been swapped out?
 
izunadono said:
Uhhhhhh do you know what exposure means?

But yeah, the colours of the actual image is what we are talking about.

When it changes you will be so shocked. Keep looking at it at intervals.
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Uhhhh, yes I do, sir.

the colors of the actual image "I guess" are light blue, and gold. and the light blue from the appearance in the picture, makes it look like it the blue is actually white, but light blue due to cascading shadows.

and numerous people have talked about coming back to the picture a few moments later and the colors switching. that hasn't happened to me so I guess i'll to go bed, wake up, look at this tomorrow and expect to be another one of those people.
 
Why do the colors of the actual dress even matter? The only thing that matters is what the colors in the photo are. You can be "right" being that you see the same colors as the real life dress, but still wrong in that you see different colors than what is in the picture.
 
This has been everywhere in the last couple of hours.

Welp, i see black and blue. My eyes are normal. All of you guys seeing white and gold, go get your eyes checked XD lol
 
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