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How to create optical illusion photos (for social media)

Bezold effect fabric

Bezold Effect

The Dress blue black white gold

Color Constancy Illusions

Most Awesome Illusions

Sexy Birch Tree

Sexy Birch

This photo was taken in Kazakhstan and quickly named 'Eye of God' by people online. Obviously, this is just a case of pareidolia.

Eye of God

2d stairs optical illusion

2D stairs

The man on the left is not standing in the water next to the boat. He is sitting with his friends in the boat.

Next to the boat

Gravity hills

Gravity hills

Mother nature breastfeeding

Mother Nature

photo doctored by NASA

NASA doctored photos?

Man skydiving into Burning Man festival

A Festival for Ants

Street in Macau

The Invasion

Invisible - viral photo of girl with mirror

Invisible

Pigeons sitting on wires creating shit music

Shit music

This lake view garden does not have a lake in sight

Lake View Garden

Alien invasion in Texas

Alien Invasion

$This optical illusion by Alexandre Meneghini of two women with big bottoms swimming in Cuba in 2015 is a classis example of refraction.$

Big bottoms

Realistic painting

Realistic Painting

Zombies attack

Zombie Attack

Door handle optical illusion reflection

Door handle

Floating cat head

The eye of a cyber poppy

Cyber Poppy

Just a door in the middle of a beautiful scene, makes the background look like a giant wall with a live wallpaper.

Live Wallpaper

High-rise buildings optical illusion

High-rise buidings

Two giants thanks to forced perspective

Two giants

a giant in the forest or real life ent

Giant in the Forest

Shark Attack

Shark Attack

Screaming up or down?

Ice Cube sitting in a round-backed chair looking like he is raising his backend in the air.

Bottoms up, Ice Cube!

Screw hole

This skull optical illusion was created for the Penny Dreadful Season 3 poster.

Skull

Sutro tower in San Francisco fog

Flying Dutchman

Multi-legged bird

Freak of Nature

This photo is not a composite, but rather zoomed in until it is hard to recognize what you are seeing. The orange color on the right is a retaining wall.

Separation

Prehistoric snake

Prehistoric Snake

These migrating horses are actually shadows of zebras.

Migrating horses

Sink draining looks like an eye

Mesmerizing eye

Goal perspective

Goal perspective

Rice field looks like reflection

Reflected rice fields

Plane crash illusion

Plane Crash

Photoshop street art

Erased Street Art

Sand bear

Sand Bear

too many legs to climb this ladder

Too many legs

Grate view of Central Park

Grate View of Central Park

impossible woodwork

Impossible woodwork

Reflective bird

Reflective bird

The underwater waterfall in Mauritius is a landmark that is an optical illusion

Underwater Waterfall

This dancing twigs art is an example of pareidolia

Nature’s Dance

Seeing Eye Dog illusion

Seeing Eye Dog

Yosemite Firefall is a landmark that is an optical illusion

Firefall

Floating helmet

Floating helmet and wheel

This is an optical illusion artwork by Kostya Terentev. Filmed from directly above, you can see only the shadows of the people.

Shadow Avatars

Kobi Levi shoes. best for stairs

Best for Stairs

Man playing with toy cars

Toy Cars

Shades of sheep in pens look like dried beans in this drone photo.

Assorted Dried Beans

Peacock with its head in the ground

Peacock with its head in the ground

hills with trees

Hills and trees

deflated dog

Deflated dog

Escher drawing IRL

Escher drawing IRL

The pensive olive tree

The Pensive Olive Tree

This deformed building is a temporary art installation to hide renovation work

Deformed Building

Body art parrot

Parrot

In this grate optical illusion, the shadow doesn't match up with the object

Grate Optical Illusion

Music notes

Music Notes

mysterious tree pareidolia

Mysterious tree

These big women in Paris are a perfect example of Forced Perspective

Big women

The Yangzhou Zhongshuge bookstore has an optical illusion created by reflection

Tunnel of Books

Footprint in the sand

footprints in the sand depth ambiguity

Footprints in the sand

A starry night sky optical illusion

A Starry Night Sky

impossible woodwork, impossible object in real life

Impossible woodwork

Snapdragon seed pods looking like pixy skulls

Pixie Skulls

Water drop on the kitchen floor

Water drop

This optical illusion of an ominous bird is actually a moth orchid

Ominous bird

This eye of the tower is watching over Verona, from the 84 meter high Torre dei Lamberti.

The eye of the tower

Penrhyn Castle in Wales looks like a swamp monster

Swamp monster

disappearing trailer

Disappearing trailer

A dock to the sky

Dock to the sky

The sun eclipsed by a basketball

Solar Eclipse

Jupiter close-up

Jupiter

Asthmatic cat gets pumped up.

Pump it up!

Canoeing in a winter wonderland

Canoe in the Winter

This is the volcano Mount Etna in Sicily erupting. The bright lava against an almost invisible mountain looks like a Phoenix (or Mutalisk)

Phoenix rising

Strained Expression

Mimetolith

Green Kong

Stairs inside a cabinet

Stairs Inside a Cabinet

Howling wolf cloud

Howling Wolf

Rakotzbrücke was designed the create an optical illusion

Full Circle

The black dog looks like it is floating above the sunbed

Floating Dog

Magic Sword

Bushfire optical illusion

Bushfire

UFO ready for takeoff

UFO

Galaxy far away at Burning Man

A Galaxy Far Away

This is Cascada la Novia (Waterfall of the Bride), a cascade in Peru.

Bride Waterfall

Shoebill, No egrets, Herun

Shoebill?

concave and convex

The same image

Elvish writing

Elvish Writing

Giant party in the skyline

Giant Party in the Skyline

Lake Sørvágsvatn is a landmark that is an optical illusion

Lake Above the Ocean

God of all cats

God of all Cats

Volcano ash cloud pareidolia

Magayon and Pangaronon

This fungus is named Xylaria polymorpha, but more commonly known as dead man's fingers. This example is a perfect illusion, with 5 digits and more shaped like a hand than other specimens. It really looks like a zombie is going to rise up from the ground.

Dead Man’s Fingers

Deadvlei in Namibia is a great landmark to photograph optical illusions

The Starry Night (in Africa)