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Originally Posted by Acey
Indeed, as per the other photos of it. But what I'm saying is... there is no black anywhere in the photo and this is proven by sampling the colours.
So my thought process on this is that to say the dress is black/blue, based on this photo, means you are either
a) subconsciously accounting for the fact that we know the actual dress is black/blue, or
b) subconsciously using what you know about how different types of lighting affect colours and correcting the white balance
...because, as per the photo, the darkest colour is a relatively moderate brown so you must be doing one of the two.
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Absolutely wrong on a. My girlfriend showed me this picture with no context at first. She asked me what colour the dress was. I had never heard of this dress before or the buzz behind it. I was really confused by the question, and just said "It's blue and black". She stared at me in utter disbelief because she saw it as gold and white.
Edit: and b is not a good statement. Why wouldn't you account for white balance in the picture? When you're asked "what colour is this dress", who would respond with "well the lighting kinda makes it look dark yellow, even though I can tell it's black in real life. But I'll say goldish black anyway". No, the answer you give is "the dress is blue and black."
And to be clear, my girlfriend said white and bright gold. Not dark gold.