Mark Frauenfelder of Boing Boing sez:
My daughter sent this photo to me. I put it in Photoshop to check. The “reddest” part I could find using the eyedropper had an RGB value of 153/181/182. So technically there is some red in the image, but here is what 153/181/182 looks like:
Not very red.
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Guinness is red
lol
You’ve got a blueberry for a daughter!
You’re turning violet, Violet.
To the juicing room!
What am I supposed to be outraged about here?
A poorly captured image, I think…
I just can’t deal with this right now.
https://youtu.be/axHe_BVY_9c
Colour is relative and changes all of the time depending on light. That photo has a blueish filter on it, so everything changes on the RGB scale towards blue.
These things keep popping up online like something amazing has been pointed out. Get a flippin Colour theory or photography book!
So are you saying it’s witchcraft?
Or sorcery?
This is the most sensible and well-reasoned thing that you have ever posted on Broadsheet – my hat is off to you.
+1
I think it has been established a long time ago that the brain perceives, adapts, corrects, processes what the eye sees. These are just to fill the cute panda slots at the end of a news bulletin.
You seriously need to find a hobby
I blame Trump*
* Jerry in Kiltyclogher not Donald in Washington D.C.