Sorry if it's been posted, I didn't see anything by looking at thread titles.
The dress is a hot topic across the entire internet right now. I want to see how PFF feels.
In my opinion I think that people who are saying this dress looks like white and gold are trolling - though I guess there is a scientific reason why they see it that way.
I have to pass an annual flight physical including vision check and the Navy thinks I'm good to go. That said I see off white and gold and think that the black and blue supporters are trolling
I have to pass an annual flight physical including vision check and the Navy thinks I'm good to go. That said I see off white and gold and think that the black and blue supporters are trolling
I'm colorblind as can be and I agree 100% with you.
WEIRD!!! I have seen the pic earlier today and it was always blue and black. I clicked this thread and it was white and gold! I scrolled down to read the comments and scrolled back up it turned to blue and black!!!!!!
Hard to say with certainty given the unknown quality of the ambient light, camera color accuracy, any post photo color correction, and monitor calibration. You're far removed from seeing the actual colors.
That said from the picture posted in this thread viewed on my monitor it appears to be a blue and some shade of brown or gold. The brown/gold area could appear black in dark lighting, just as the blue could actually be white that's illuminated by bluish light.
Or maybe she harbors a deeper secret she dare not let get out------------she's a card carrying lifetime NRA member with a concealed carry permit and that's a low slung thunderwear holster for a .308.
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I am not sure why people are claiming to see a blue and black dress, and I've seen all kinds of explanations from monitor angle to how many rods or cones our eyes have.
My wife and I have had this discussion at length and I've decided to put my fancy art degree to use. Well, not really, just Photoshop's color picker.
If you don't know about color picker, it is a tool in Photoshop where you can select a pixel on the image and it will return the RBG/CMYK/HTML code for that color and where it shows up on the color wheel. No rods and cones, no angled monitors, just the facts.
As you can see in the image above, this is the default color picker set to true black, or coordinates 0,0,0 in RGB. This is the blackest black that ever blacked in the world of Photoshop. Also note the white arrow pointing to the two smaller arrows on the gradient color bar. Those arrows indicate which basic color has been selected.
Here is the original dress image with the black/blue dress next to it. The tips of the arrows by the numbers correspond to the exact places on each dress where I picked the colors from using color picker.
Below are the colors Photoshop "sees" as well as where in the color spectrum those color live.
This one is the smoking gun. Photoshop has determined that the color of that pixel is a brownish/tanish/goldish color belonging to the orange family.
In this second picker image, the pixel is a very dark blue, appearing almost black due to contrast against the lighter color.
The third image is a light blue - note this one still resides in the blue family. This may be where people are seeing blue, but if so it is a super light blue (more of a "cool" grey") than a bright blue.
Definitely blue.
Yes, I have too much time on my hands, but the color picker is what it is. If you are seeing a blue and black dress in the original image, look to the right of the arrow at what you see as blue, and then look at the first color picker under the dresses. Do you see light brown or do you still see blue? If blue, you may have some form of color blindness. Not an accusation, and I'm not calling anyone a liar - you see what you interpret you are seeing - but I just don't see a blue and black dress.
Edit: Upon further review, I also have to call into question the black and blue dress the woman is wearing as well. If you look along the bottom of the seam by her legs there is white sticking out underneath. Also by her right armpit (left center of image) there is white showing under the blue.
If you tighten up the levels along the side of the dress, the shape of the dress betrays the Photoshop work whoever published that first image did to cover up the white. Notice the jagged angles, which are telltale signs of the lazy usage of a polygonal lasso tool, another one of Photoshop's more popular tools. (This lasso tool tends to always make selections that look like saw teeth.)
Maybe this is all a conspiracy?
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I am not sure why people are claiming to see a blue and black dress, and I've seen all kinds of explanations from monitor angle to how many rods or cones our eyes have.
My wife and I have had this discussion at length and I've decided to put my fancy art degree to use. Well, not really, just Photoshop's color picker.
Photoshop's color picker is useless for analyzing the actual color of an object in a photograph. If you have a white wall and shine a blue light on it, what color is Photoshop going to say the "wall" is when you select a pixel where the light was shining?
That was the whole point of this fiasco. Perception of color changes due to ambient light. Our eyes do this anyway to items we see in person and that's ignoring error the camera may introduce trying to "balance" the light in an underexposed shot in shadow with a fluorescent light background.
Photoshop's color picker is useless for analyzing the actual color of an object in a photograph. If you have a white wall and shine a blue light on it, what color is Photoshop going to say the "wall" is when you select a pixel where the light was shining?
That was the whole point of this fiasco. Perception of color changes due to ambient light. Our eyes do this anyway to items we see in person and that's ignoring error the camera may introduce trying to "balance" the light in an underexposed shot in shadow with a fluorescent light background.
Not useless for determining what actual color is in the photo. The photo of the dress is gold and white, or gold and light blue. If people see something else, they aren't seeing what the pixels are saying.
Not useless for determining what actual color is in the photo. The photo of the dress is gold and white, or gold and light blue. If people see something else, they aren't seeing what the pixels are saying.
The color of the pixels is not determined solely by the color of the object in the photo. Go back to the blue light on a white wall example. The wall may be white, but your going to have blue pixels in the photo. Your brain tries to interpret the light and how it affects the color to determine what color the wall really is - it's that interpretation that causes the confusion.
A blue pixel is a blue pixel regardless of whether it came from a blue wall or a white one with a blue light shining on it.
So,...isis, "the JV team" is now irrelevant again. The modern wander of politically affiliated media and an America too busy to care.
I always marvel at the strange assumption that if anyone discusses anything of less than dire consequence, we are "too busy to care". Or if we posit random questions, we must have "nothing better to do."
My hypothesis: it is okay to yield to carefree banter and mindless entertainment from time to time.
Since the Fiero forum and the internet in general is one avenue to that end, it should not come as a shock that much of what is read/viewed here is of an entertainment origin.
Not calling you out specifically, Rick, but I promise I furrow my brows and think serious thoughts about serious things when I'm not posting Photoshopped dresses on forums dedicated to 30 year old Pontiacs.
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