What colour is this dress?

I see white and gold.

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If you see white and gold, try looking at this for a minute and then go back to the original:

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I can't see it in white and gold anymore :/
 
So the dress was bought by someone to attend a wedding. Here is that person wearing the dress at the wedding:

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I saw it as white and gold - still do in the first pic - but it is clearly blue and black IRL
 
White and gold as a whole image. If I zoom in so only see the from the thick black/gold waist band up it is white and gold, zoom in below and it is blue and black.

The dress is obviously blue and black in real life but wondering has anyone booted up photoshop to look at the actual RGB values. I know Adobe said it is blue and black but haven't clarified if they just paint droppered it or actually colour corrected the photo.
 
lol not this!

it's blue and black.
you have to take into account the entire picture instead of just sampling or cropping parts of it. I've seen too may 'explanations' where they're measuring the RGB values of points of the image - that's utterly irrelevent. it's obvious that the blacks appear to have a golden cast to them but that's not the colour of the dress it's just the colour of the data.

the hints are as follows:

-The whole photo is blown-out, over exposed. the blacks [of the image] are already quite lifted.
-Digital cameras without IR filters will give a tint to synthetic black fabrics; this is a well known fact. the tint is often magenta / red or orange - you will see this a lot if you take a photo of someone in a dress-suit - the lapel will often be red looking in the photograph. CCTV cameras also have a very strong effect like this.
-There's just enough green in a point-sample to make it read as being gold.
-When a [cheap] camera is over-exposed like this the blacks hardly ever remain neutral; they nearly always lean towards one channel; often red.
-The warm light in the background only adds to all of this.
-I can't believe there is a debate over this, and I can't believ I'm contributing to it!

RB
 
R B Customs said:
lol not this!

it's blue and black.
you have to take into account the entire picture instead of just sampling or cropping parts of it. I've seen too may 'explanations' where they're measuring the RGB values of points of the image - that's utterly irrelevent. it's obvious that the blacks appear to have a golden cast to them but that's not the colour of the dress it's just the colour of the data.

the hints are as follows:

-The whole photo is blown-out, over exposed. the blacks [of the image] are already quite lifted.
-Digital cameras without IR filters will give a tint to synthetic black fabrics; this is a well known fact. the tint is often magenta / red or orange - you will see this a lot if you take a photo of someone in a dress-suit - the lapel will often be red looking in the photograph. CCTV cameras also have a very strong effect like this.
-There's just enough green in a point-sample to make it read as being gold.
-When a [cheap] camera is over-exposed like this the blacks hardly ever remain neutral; they nearly always lean towards one channel; often red.
-The warm light in the background only adds to all of this.
-I can't believe there is a debate over this, and I can't believ I'm contributing to it!

RB
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You are totally over-complicating it.

It's about what you see, not what you know and logically adjust for.

I saw white/gold to start with. Couldn't imagine Black/blue. Now, I can only see black/blue.
 
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