Unbelievable Photoshop CS3 Illusion
May 10, 2007 by Vurdlak
You aren't gonna believe this one, it has to be one of the best illusions this year. It took me some time to understand what Pablo Salto-Weis Azevedo (the person who sent this to me) tried to explain. Well actually, immediately I saw that the church in the second picture looks different, but then I realized what Pablo was trying to say. Believe it or not, both pictures in the frame below are identical! I have a proof inside the article (where I overlapped them). But first, lets hear the background story from Pablo:
"I am a photographer, and tonight I was editing some pictures from the Azores Islands (Portugal), when something strange happened. When you invoke the "save for web" command in Photoshop, you are presented with two versions of the same picture, on the left the original version, and on the right the optimized for the web one. Well this is what I got. I suppose you too can clearly see that the right picture looks different than the other one, church seems to be tilted to the right.
If you cut that right picture, and paste it over the left one, and play a little with the opacity so that you can see the one underneath, you'll realize both pics are actually identical! I didn't align the pics so that you could see both pics at the same time and clearly see that vertical lines are completely parallel!" - I say its amazing. Kinda reminds me of Pisa Tower.
"I am a photographer, and tonight I was editing some pictures from the Azores Islands (Portugal), when something strange happened. When you invoke the "save for web" command in Photoshop, you are presented with two versions of the same picture, on the left the original version, and on the right the optimized for the web one. Well this is what I got. I suppose you too can clearly see that the right picture looks different than the other one, church seems to be tilted to the right.
If you cut that right picture, and paste it over the left one, and play a little with the opacity so that you can see the one underneath, you'll realize both pics are actually identical! I didn't align the pics so that you could see both pics at the same time and clearly see that vertical lines are completely parallel!" - I say its amazing. Kinda reminds me of Pisa Tower.
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Great technique. First post?
Not that amazing tbh
look the same to mr, sorry. Bring on the body camoflage/art.
cool illusion. it looks that way because of the perspective when the photo was taken, so it just looks different than the other one because of the line in the middle
now THAT is very cool!
I need to try it now haha.
That is sooooo cool! I never really noticed that until now. Awesome!
p.s. proofread, you spelled unbelievable wrong (in the title of the website!) and your first sentence doesn't make sense...
You won't gonna believe this one,...
You AREN'T gonna (not really a word, but ok) believe this one,...
not so best illusion
That is so cool!
cool..
At first i didnt see what the big deal was.. but then i realised what you where saying..
The pictures are in fact identical; but for some reason the one on the right appears to be slanted more. strange.
A cool thing about this illusion is that it is also a stereogram! Produces a nice 3d image when you look at both pictures! See the stereogram illusions section for more examples!
i dont really get it. sorry...what identical ?...i know the pic look strange on the right side..abit different on the middle of the pic..i think its great because such a thing happen only on a same picture.
Very, very cool. Nice illusion!!
@ashleigh
not all people have english as their mother tongue (neither me). so just stop nagging around and say thank you, because the whole world tries to talks to you in your mother tongue! well, i don't know about you, but for me it would also be ok, when this blog was written in french or german...
wow. this is awesome!! you would never believe it, just looking at it
you should put this in the steriogram category...
the top photo is the same as the "3d chair illusion"
U can see that they r identical by simoly blurring ur eyes.they will look exactly the same(and they are).try it .its 100% garanty.
that is so kl! super illusion.
why r sum pplz saying that its not?
oh and @ashleigh, get a life.
That is friggin amazin'!
You don't need to go to Photoshop to check it out. If you are able to do the 'Cross-eye' like you do when looking at stereo-images you can clearly see that they are identical
hi! i think i spot how the ilusion happens (please read carefully to dintinguish when im talking about the left/right tower of the church or the left/right picture):
the tower on the right of the church in the first picture is also inclined but in the oposite direction so when we put the same picture in the right, the tower in the left of the church gets side-by-side the tower in the right side of the church.
the effect is then amplified because we take the right tower as the leading vertical (or some middle invisible line between the two towers), wich is not the real vertical.
i used gimp (wich is linux similar to photoshop) to switch both pictures and the effect is absolutely the same. and if we are not sure the pictures are exactly the same, one can duplicate one of them side by side to get the same ilusion.
at first and addressed to @ashleigh - the majority of the worlds population does not speak english as the first language, we have our own dialect - majority english! Show some respect, or learn our dialect, thank you.
secondly, i guess the house is standing in a slope so that the base of the right side (which we do not see) of the house is actually than the base of the left side. The 'tilting' effect is then reinforced when we relate the right picture to the left picture. In other words, we assume that the left house is standing on even ground, but it is in fact standing on a slope, and when we compare a copy of the house with itself, then the effect is strengened. Does it make sense?
Wow, if you cross your eyes on the first picture, you will see a stereogram!
Ok i did an experiment.
I put the pictures on Word and cut them up and rearranged them so I had 2 ORIGINALS side by side. Then I put 2 of the OPTIMISED FOR WEB ones side by side.
And whaddya know? they looked just as different from each other as the examples above. Even though they were the same version.
So that means that THE ONLY REASON THEY LOOK DIFFERENT IS BECAUSE THEY ARE NEXT TO EACH OTHER, not because they are actually different in any way.
must be a perspective thing.