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

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lednerg said:
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That was done with just one simple overall correction. I didn't make any selections to certain parts of the image.
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Fuck, you just broke my eyes.

The black bits in the original are definitely brown, the Photoshop eye drop proves it, but now it just looks black to me. Fuuuuuck. How do I switch back to brown and blue? :( :( :(
 
If I block the upper half of the picture with my hand (browsing on my iPhone) I can see the blue and black. Then when I take my hand away it's like the picture brightens. Weird :lol
 
Closing my eyes for a bit, looking at it from an angle, looking from a distance, looking at just the lower half, doing something else for a while and coming back...

Always gold. I want to see it change because I just cannot comprehend someone seeing it as black.
 
Gila said:
When I first loaded this on my phone about 30 mins ago it was white/gold, now on my desktop it's blue/black
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Same here, but I was standing outside of the train and then looked back inside of the train. I think it has to do with background lighting. (bright outdoors, dark interior)
 
Soooooo.....some say it's white and gold. Others say it's black and blue. Then we've got the "I can see both!" crowd.

Is this an experiment in trolling?
 
I have never honestly seen blue and black.

Occasionally when I scroll up and look at the bottom of the dress I can think "I see how you'd maybe sort of see it that way...?" but no, it does not stick in any way. The gold is so gold that I could never in a million years think it's black... it doesn't matter how it relates to other colors.



I don't agree with izunadono's theory that we all will see it in either way eventually.

It is absolutely the fact that humans see different colors from one another. Check out the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishihara_Test for an example of how this is true.

So rather, I think this dress shot has unintentionally danced on the line between different people's color perception. Is there some "color context" at play that causes some to see it as one or the other in varying circumstances? Sure. But I believe that there is also the fact that certain people are incapable of seeing one color combination or another.

With this dress, some will see it as white-gold only, some will see it as black-blue only, some will flip back and forth.
 
The dress is blue and black, yah, but that doesn't mean I don't perceive it as blue and black. I spent a lot of time in art but have been on a self imposed hiatus for a few years now and I am near-sighted.

I've taken those "can you order these colors correctly?" quizzes that went around a year or so ago and aced the shit out of those cause they're easy enough for me.

Sure, I can comprehend that the dress is blue and black, and yes, the "white" is just a really light light light blue. But to perceive and consider the black of the dress as being, well, black, is silly and you're just kidding yourself. It's a gold color. It's not black or what we consider to be black. Yes, in reality, that picture is a very washed out black in a specific light (as shown in that lighting comparison image a page ago) but we physically perceive that color as gold.

So, yes, it's a blue and black dress, but we don't see it as a strictly blue and black dress because of the lighting.
 
BocoDragon said:
I have never honestly seen blue and black.

Occasionally when I scroll up and look at the bottom of the dress I can think "I see how you'd maybe sort of see it that way...?" but no, it does not stick in any way. The gold is so gold that I could never in a million years think it's black... it doesn't matter how it relates to other colors.



I don't agree with izunadono's theory that we all will see it in either way eventually.

It is absolutely the fact that humans see different colors from one another. Check out the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishihara_Test for an example of how this is true.

So rather, I think this dress shot has unintentionally danced on the line between different people's color perception. Is there some "color context" at play that causes some to see it as one or the other in varying circumstances? Sure. But I believe that there is also the fact that certain people are incapable of seeing one color combination or another.

With this dress, some will see it as white-gold only, some will see it as black-blue only, some will flip back and forth.
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They always make a post like this before it changes :D

If we saw colours differently and that was causing this issue, then we would just be naming colours differently and would come to the same conclusion. I think everything has to do with lighting.

I am getting pretty good at switching now. Seeing the bottom of the image is very good for me switching. Anyway, I have that list and it's only a handful still here that posted more than once, saying they can't see it the other way.

This image is new.

I imagine the gif of the girl spinning, if left without an explanation, would have had the same kind of reaction on gaf.
 
BocoDragon said:
I have never honestly seen blue and black.

Occasionally when I scroll up and look at the bottom of the dress I can think "I see how you'd maybe sort of see it that way...?" but no, it does not stick in any way. The gold is so gold that I could never in a million years think it's black... it doesn't matter how it relates to other colors.



I don't agree with izunadono's theory that we all will see it in either way eventually.

It is absolutely the fact that humans see different colors from one another. Check out the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishihara_Test for an example of how this is true.

So rather, I think this dress shot has unintentionally danced on the line between different people's color perception. Is there some "color context" at play that causes some to see it as one or the other in varying circumstances? Sure. But I believe that there is also the fact that certain people are incapable of seeing one color combination or another.

With this dress, some will see it as white-gold only, some will see it as black-blue only, some will flip back and forth.
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Agreed.

I still can't see blue/black in the OP's photo, even though I've seen the corrected photo.

To me, this will always be a bright scene. I can't unsee the bright environment. So I see it as in the second photo that DJ88 posted.

Me said:
edit: Additionally, according to how my brain works, your left image seems unrealistic to me, because I have a hard time imagining a black surface or fabric reflecting that much golden light, whereas it's much easier for me to believe that a white fabric is giving off some blue radiosity or is simply under a shadow.
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I don't think I can overcome this. I wonder though, if my brain hadn't already formed this impression, whether there would be a chance for me to see it the other way.
 
blue and goldish black ( the gold might be due to white balance). If you don't see blue you must be blind or something lol. I don't understand how it can be white.
 
I copied the pic in the op and pasted it in to an iMessage to send to a friend in the morning. When I copied I saw white and gold. When I go into the message this morning the pic is blue and black.
 
I realize I'm probably not the first person to do this, but...

Without the context of the photo, does this honestly appear black to black-bluers?

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Is the explanation about ligh sensitivity of your eyes accurate (like your eyes are shittier if you see it as white and gold) or is this simply an optical illusion and depends on how your brain interprets the image (kinda like the spinning gif of the chick)?
 
At first I saw it as white and gold, but then I tilted the phone and now I see it as blue and black and only as blue and black no matter what. I tilted the phone, turned it off and on, changed lighting conditions in the room. Someone explain why its blue and black now. Creepy.

This happen to anyone else?
 
BocoDragon said:
I realize I'm probably not the first person to do this, but...

Without the context of the photo, does this honestly appear black to black-bluers?

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No, thats the only part of the dress thats not black, because light is shining on it. When you look at the entire picture and see black/blue, that part has a golden tint due to the light.
 
BocoDragon said:
I realize I'm probably not the first person to do this, but...

Without the context of the photo, does this honestly appear black to black-bluers?

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It doesn't on people who see blue and black. It looks goldish to them. But the bottom of the photo will look very blue and black, with few bits of it being brown.

When you look at the pixels, we all see it accurately.

For example, how can you see the blue as white? It's irrelevant to what people are seeing when they complain.
 
GasProblem said:
I still only see white and gold.

I guess my eyes are fucked.
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I want to know what this really means for color differentiation.

For all we know, people who can only see white-gold and whose minds refuse to budge might actually have a color accuracy superiority?

Or maybe not, and it's the black-bluers? or is it the flip-floppers?

Or is color detection superiority subjective?

Some optician nerd is going to have a field day writing a paper on all this...
 
BocoDragon said:
I want to know what this really means for color differentiation.

For all we know, people who can only see white-gold and whose minds refuse to budge might actually have a color accuracy superiority?

Or maybe not, and it's the black-bluers? or is it the flip-floppers?

Or is color detection superiority subjective?

Some optician nerd is going to have a field day writing a paper on all this...
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I saw blue and gold for a long time because I zoomed in from the beginning.

:D
 
BocoDragon said:
I want to know what this really means for color differentiation.

For all we know, people who can only see white-gold and whose minds refuse to budge might actually have a color accuracy superiority?

Or maybe not, and it's the black-bluers? or is it the flip-floppers?

Or is color detection superiority subjective?

Some optician nerd is going to have a field day writing a paper on all this...
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This is weird to me because I am near-sighted but have always had really really really really really exceptional color differentiation abilities.

That is a blue and black dress that is perceived as "white" and gold. I see it as a really really light blue and a gold-tint.
 
I think it's interesting that everyone looks from the top down when pointing out the colors especially for the gold/black. If you look at the bottom of the photo where there is less exposure you see more black than gold. Also look to the left of the photo you see some black and white cloth, probably another dress and you can compare the black.

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Nanashrew said:
I think it's interesting that everyone looks from the top down when pointing out the colors especially for the gold/black. If you look at the bottom of the photo where there is less exposure you see more black than gold. Also look to the left of the photo you see some black and white cloth, probably another dress and you can compare the black.

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Yah this a good thing to point out and something I noticed.

That still doesn't keep the black/white pattern on the dress in the back from having the gold tint (it actually becomes somewhat green) because of the lighting.
 
izunadono said:
It doesn't on people who see blue and black. It looks goldish to them. But the bottom of the photo will look very blue and black, with few bits of it being brown.

When you look at the pixels, we all see it accurately.

For example, how can you see the blue as white? It's irrelevant to what people are seeing when they complain.
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Yes, it looks "blue".. But even outside of context I think it looks like it could reasonably be shadowed white.
 
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