What colour is this dress?

What colour is this dress?

Poll: What colour is this dress?

Total Members Polled: 569

White and Gold: 69%
Black and Blue: 31%
Author
Discussion

Kermit power

28,634 posts

212 months

Friday 27th February 2015
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confused

It's neither. It's light blue and gold.

Sargeant Orange

2,687 posts

146 months

Friday 27th February 2015
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Identical






Gingerbread Man

9,171 posts

212 months

Friday 27th February 2015
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Evening for me now....it's changed to blue and black guys. No where as dark as the image posted above from the original retailer.

So try tonight, or acclimatise in a dark room is similar.

Edited by Gingerbread Man on Friday 27th February 09:49

hornetrider

63,161 posts

204 months

Friday 27th February 2015
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What the actual fk yikes

Saw this on The Wail earlier, dress is clearly gold and white.

Came here, saw the thread, saw the OP, dress is clearly gold and white.

Went to Telegraph, hello, someone's doctored the pic, dress is clearly blue and black.

Came back here to comment - saw the OP, dress in now blue and black!

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Kermit power

28,634 posts

212 months

Friday 27th February 2015
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Sargeant Orange said:
Identical



No they're not.

If you save both images and open them in Photoshop, you can find out what the RGB colours are for any given place on the photo.

The colour in the middle of the chest on the bottom dress is approximately R25 G50 B125, and the top bit of black/gold (which is harder to catch because of the blue underneath, and you can't do it in the flat bit, as that's clearly a translucent gauze which would pick up the colour behind it) is roughly 25 25 40.

On the top dress, roughly the same locations come out at 135 150 180 and 140 115 90.

I can't quickly or easily find a way of embedding colour swatches on here to show what those are, but you can easily enter them into the boxes on this website to see for yourself.

Never mind what the human eye might or might not think it's seeing, and the impact of a different monitor, lighting where you're viewing it or whatever, none of that affects Photoshop, and it comes out with the colours on each photo that I can see with the human eye. Those two dresses are very different colours, so either they really are completely different colours, or the original photo is very, very badly out of balance.

897sma

3,347 posts

143 months

Friday 27th February 2015
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Speedy11 said:
I think it is a bit like this optical illusion


What optical illusion?

McSam

6,753 posts

174 months

Friday 27th February 2015
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I'm surprised by the poll and the comments. I saw this photo on Twitter last night, having no knowledge of what it was about or that it was supposed to "be" two different sets of colours. It was clear to me that it was black and blue, and I've seen it a few times since but have absolutely no clue how you could see anything else.

Does this make me special or something?

Kermit power

28,634 posts

212 months

Friday 27th February 2015
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Purity14 said:
OPs image is CLEARLY blue and black.

I do not see white or gold at all.
That's because you're looking at your underpants, not the photo!!! hehe

Speedy11

516 posts

207 months

Friday 27th February 2015
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897sma said:
Speedy11 said:
I think it is a bit like this optical illusion


What optical illusion?
That the squares A and B are the same colour grey even though they look different shades.

Moonhawk

10,730 posts

218 months

Friday 27th February 2015
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Kermit power said:
Those two dresses are very different colours, so either they really are completely different colours, or the original photo is very, very badly out of balance.
I suspect it's a combination of the latter (the top photo looks overexposed to me) - plus peoples viewing device settings.

Brightness, contrast, colour balance, gamma settings and even the viewing angle (especially on LCD monitors) or the ambient light in the room can affect the way colours and tones are represented or perceived.

I can get the two dresses looking pretty close if I set my monitor's gamma to 0.6. Currently it's set to 1.0.

MiniMan64

16,863 posts

189 months

Friday 27th February 2015
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If you're on a laptop like at the original image and tilt the screen back and forward so you are viewing from different angles.

I initially only save G&S but can now see G&S or B&B depending on how I view. It's an optical trick based on poor picture quality and differing viewing screens. Don't think the quality of anyones eyesight comes in to play.

alock

4,224 posts

210 months

Friday 27th February 2015
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Wired does a good job of fixing the white balance of the image:

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

Moonhawk

10,730 posts

218 months

Friday 27th February 2015
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In photoshop, I sampled the same points on the two dresses and have compiled the sampled colours into a single swatch for comparison (top dress on the left, bottom dress on the right).


rohrl

8,712 posts

144 months

Friday 27th February 2015
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I see only blue and black.

JonRB

74,402 posts

271 months

Friday 27th February 2015
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alock said:
Wired does a good job of fixing the white balance of the image:

http://www.wired.com/2015/02/science-one-agrees-co...
Good link. thumbup


kambites

67,461 posts

220 months

Friday 27th February 2015
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I originally thought it was white and gold but a bit of playing with the white balance in GIMP made it pretty obvious it was blue and black and now I can't see the white and gold anymore. smile

Funny thing, the human brain. smile

PorscheGT4

21,146 posts

264 months

Friday 27th February 2015
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john2443 said:
Can I recommend Specsavers to some of you!

It's Gold and White, I can't make it go any other colours!
this, on a calibrated screen it's white and gold, end off ;-) all be it a dirty white.

Boydie88

3,283 posts

148 months

Friday 27th February 2015
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alock said:
Wired does a good job of fixing the white balance of the image:

http://www.wired.com/2015/02/science-one-agrees-co...
Even the darker image looks white and gold. How can the black possibly come out in any other colour than black? The going blue is just shadow/st camera.

Moonhawk

10,730 posts

218 months

Friday 27th February 2015
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The poll needs another option. Brown/Light Blue

Whilst I do see a goldish brown colour in the places that are supposed to be black. The "white" areas have always appeared light blue to me.

Based on the RGB values taken from photoshop - these are exactly the colours I would infer (I do a lot of photo manipulation and CGI - so am used to converting RGB values to colour in my head).

I suspect many of you need to calibrate you monitors wink

Take a look at this page. For the bars on the right that appear as two squares - if you squint or look at them from a distance - the middle square should merge into one of the squares either side. If they don't your gamma and colour balance is likely to be off.


JonRB

74,402 posts

271 months

Friday 27th February 2015
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What I want to know is if you put a Llama in the dress and put it on a conveyor belt, would it take off?