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

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When I first saw this picture on TV yesterday, it looked white and gold.
I looked at the picture today on the Internet and now I'm seeing blue and black. My husband still sees white and gold.
I think I'm going crazy.
 
Flo_Evans said:
No, you are basing your idea on the assumption that the dress is white...

There is a clear white/black pattern next to the dress, use that to color balance the image and it is obviously blue. There is yellow/gold highlights in the black areas but they are clearly black affected by a yellow incandescent light.
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There you go:
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The part that is supposed to be black is still much brighter than the black of the clothes in the background.
And the part that is supposed to be deep blue like in the amazon image is nowhere near as blue.
I have tried playing with levels (brightness/contrast) and white balance and found it impossible to match the colors of the black and blue dress. It's a different dress.
 
It finally changed for me but only on my phone. I still see white and gold on PC and iPad. It's pretty weird holding the phone next to my iPad and seeing two completely different things.
 
What kind of wizardry is at work here? It's been white & gold since I first saw the picture yesterday. Pulled the pic up at on my phone at work --still white & gold. I look at my computer monitor then look back at the pic, it's blue & black! Reload the image on my phone, looking at the screen the entire time, it's white & gold again. Stare at my computer monitor for a second, look back, at my phone...blue & black. Rinse and repeat. Every now and then it gets stuck on blue & gold, or white & gold at the top and blue & black at the bottom when I zoom in a bit.
 
TheOMan said:
Blue and Gold on my phone...

I have "better than perfect" vision so...I guess I'll try my laptop.
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Laptop is blue and gold and based on how the photo is color tuned, I'd say that's accurate.

Also, this article is much better at the science behind it than the one in the OP:

http://www.wired.com/2015/02/science-one-agrees-color-dress/

I don't think it has anything to do with the "quality" of your eyesight/cones/rods.

Edit: It's much more about how your BRAIN is interpreting the colours and compensating for the lighting in the picture. The explanation in the OP is bogus. Where did it come from?
 
Every color is defined by the light reflecting from it. Light hits an object, the object absorbs certain parts of the light's color spectrum, and the leftover colors reflect off and that's what we see. Therefore there's technically no such thing as an object being the same color all the time, because the light will always vary. In the original photo it's off-white and dark gold. As shown by Photoshop color picking. In other photos, with different lighting, it's blue and black. The blue and black photos use more natural lighting so we may think of it as the "standard" color, but since that's only relative to the amount of light we are used to, we can't really say that's the true color, or that there is a true color.
 
okay, i have been busy with other things in the past hour, I reload the page.

Look at at the picture right away. It is White n Gold for half a second and immateriality turns Black and Blue. Now that I am focused and aware, it remains Black and Blue
 
Costia said:
There you go:

The part that is supposed to be black is still much brighter than the black of the clothes in the background.
And the part that is supposed to be deep blue like in the amazon image is nowhere near as blue.
I have tried playing with levels (brightness/contrast) and white balance and found it impossible to match the colors of the black and blue dress. It's a different dress.
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I don't know where you're looking at an Amazon dress, but it's confusing you. The dress is a Roman Originals dress and it's definitely without a doubt blue and black in real life. No room for debate there.
 
Flo_Evans said:
I think you are confused...

The dress is factually blue/black.
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That doesnt mean shit if you actually change the color settings of the photos for it to be completly different colors.
The color picker doesnt lie, the real colors of the OP's photo are dark gold and light blue, like it or not.
You dont have better eyes if you are seeing colors that dont exist in THAT photo, even if the real dress was black and blue.
 
gutter_trash said:
okay, i have been busy with other things in the past hour, I reload the page.

Look at at the picture right away. It is White n Gold for half a second and immateriality turns Black and Blue. Now that I am focused and aware, it remains Black and Blue
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But if you spend some time away from it, the next time you'll probably see white and gold again, and it will take some time to switch.

It's like the brain has to constantly remind itself 'this dress is black and blue' or else it'll get it wrong.

Again, to those that never saw it as white and gold, it's a clear white and perfect shade of gold when you're seeing it that way, and it's actually a more attractive dress that way.
 
Griss said:
But if you spend some time away from it, the next time you'll probably see white and gold again, and it will take some time to switch.

It's like the brain has to constantly remind itself 'this dress is black and blue' or else it'll get it wrong.

Again, to those that never saw it as white and gold, it's a clear white and perfect shade of gold when you're seeing it that way, and it's actually a more attractive dress that way.
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are you suggesting that my brain is now correcting it since I have been exposed to the blue and black?
 
SpacePirate Ridley said:
That doesnt mean shit if you actually change the color settings of the photos for it to be completly different colors.
The color picker doesnt lie, the real colors of the OP's photo are dark gold and light blue, like it or not.
You dont have better eyes if you are seeing colors that dont exist in THAT photo, even if the real dress was black and blue.
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Um duh? Other poster is arguing the dress is factually white and gold and the pic is making it look blue...

obviously the color balance in the original pic is off. Obviously there is a strong yellow light hitting the dress and its obviously over exposed.
 
We are making assumptions based on a picture taken from a camera. What if the camera is making our eyes see something that's not there? Nothing like seeing the dress up front and in person.
 
Nabbis said:
I don't get why this is getting so much attention.
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I think it's because something that we take for granted as being objective is, in this case, subjective.

If we accept that it is ok that this is subjective, what's next? No, we must fight this phenomenon... down to the last man
 
It was white and gold for me but when I scrolled down to the other picture and back up it was blue and black. I'll stick with white and gold though.
 
tested my family. I see white and gold (Albeit a slightly faded, poor photo). My wife sees blue and black.

My son sees blue and black, and my daughter sees white and gold. I guess there is something genetic?


edit: oh shit I just looked back at it and its getting darker..what is this black magic..
 
Now it's always white & gold at the top and blends into blue & black at the bottom(blue and gold in the middle. If I stare at the the entire pic I can sorta kinda see both.
 
n00bsauce87 said:
We are making assumptions based on a picture taken from a camera. What if the camera is making our eyes see something that's not there? Nothing like seeing the dress up front and in person.
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sure - cameras do that all the time. Take a photo of a white dress in auto mode and it'll come out looking grey because cameras are stupid.

But that doesn't explain why half the people are seeing it one way, and half another - thats the fascinating thing.


Is the original photo doctored to do something to the colours to try and emphasise how different people view things?
 
Could we get Ja Rule's opinion on this? I think he should have the final verdict.


(Still blue at the moment, I'm dreading the impending switch)
 
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