I can't even see white on the specifically lightened pictures. It's just a very very pale blue. I can see the gold in the lightened picture, and when it's side by side with the others, the original looks a little dark brown to me, but that's as close as I can get.
It showed as black and blue to me earlier, shows gold and white now. I think the difference is the lighting where I saw it earlier compared to now.
Someone found the actual dress, and it's black and blue link The tumblr user who uploaded the original pic confirms
I was seeing it consistently as white/gold, even having seen the pic where they're actually wearing it, and then I read the Wired article and watching the image where it changes finally realized that the backdrop wasn't a window or sth and so I wasn't seeing it in strong daylight. And now I am seeing it only as blue/black and can't go back and it's fucking me up.
White/gold. The 'white' looks a little bluish. But, I've looked one several things and messed with light settings and it's still white/gold.
I see light blue and brown. Which apparently is the actual coloring of the picture, according to Wired's photoshop. I can't see white or black. A friend once saw a gold-on-black dress as silver-on-purple (despite many, many friends telling her otherwise), leading to her being rather badly mismatched with her prom date.
Originally read it as white and gold (actual pixels look light blue and yellowish brown on screen, but in a way that I initially interpreted as white and gold). After opening the first image from the Wired article in a separate tab and zooming in so I could only see the blue and black color-corrected version and staring at that for a while, I could see the black and blue in the original image and kind of imagine the yellow filter that would cause the effect. Then for a bit I could only see the original image as blue and black, which was weird and disconcerting because I could remember thinking just minutes before that I could never get black from the gold/brown trim. Now it looks blue and black by default, but with a little effort I can still see the white and gold. So weird.
I can definitely see it as only black and blue, and am really confused about people seeing it as white and gold...
So: Seebs posted this a while ago. I see this as a clear spectrum - white and gold on the left, blue and black on the right. Interestingly enough, my husband still sees it only as white and gold.
Huh, on my work monitor and lighting it looks blue and black, on my home monitor with late evening lighting I have to work at it to see it like that, otherwise it shows as white/gold.
There's a cow pattern in the lower-left side of the picture. I can see that as being black and white, but my brain refuses to consider the brownish bits on the dress next to it as black.
I've heard that a bit, so not really! I've kind of settled on blue and brown-maybe-a-little-goldish-at-the-top, myself. I mostly just love memes and this is the newest one, SO.
I could not see it as blue/black until I pulled it up in Photoshop and fiddled with the color balance. http://meagenimage.tumblr.com/post/112233791435/heres-something-ive-discovered-each-half-of Basically, if you want to see the black/blue, you need to get your brain compensating for the yellowness, and if you want to see it as white/gold, you need to get your brain compensating for blueness. Staring at some uniformly yellow or blue for a while will do the job. (Aside: Seeing white and gold would happen if your brain was heavily biased towards "compensating for blue" when you first saw the photo. This might be because, just as a random example, you had been spending a long time browsing a certain website that has a blue background by default...?) ETA: I think it kind of says a thing about me that when I walk into a "there are two radically different perceptions" situation, I not only want to experience both perceptions, but also figure out how to swap between them and share that information with everyone.
Usually when I see it, it's black and blue. Occasionally it will switch up on me out of nowhere. I can't do it on purpose.
In the context of the whole picture it is clearly black and blue to me, when they just crop to a part of the dress it looks white and gold because it doesn't have the cues that "hey there is a strong light in the background that is hitting the lens and distorting the colors on this"
