What colour is this dress?
Poll: What colour is this dress?
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What the actual fk
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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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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Sargeant Orange said:
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.
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?
Does this make me special or something?
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.
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.
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.
Wired does a good job of fixing the white balance of the image:
http://www.wired.com/2015/02/science-one-agrees-co...
http://www.wired.com/2015/02/science-one-agrees-co...
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. http://www.wired.com/2015/02/science-one-agrees-co...
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.http://www.wired.com/2015/02/science-one-agrees-co...
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
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.
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
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.
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