Bill Atkinson Quotes

Some colors are very difficult to render, and you must compensate to get the color you want on the screen.

Film has far more color shades. It's called 'bit depth' in digital terms. And most bit depth in digital is about twelve, but film bit depth can be twenty to thirty. And so you just have more shades of yellow and red and oranges and everything.

Once the image was in the digital environment, one of the problems was, we had no means to reproduce the color spectrum, grey scale, and contrast that film produces, without converting the digital file to film, evaluating it, then going back and changing the digital image.

The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.

I love the challenge of taking colors that are totally disparate and making them work together in an interesting way.

In most scripts, one or two characters have a lot of colors.

Purple and yellow are my colors.

Don't put needless expense into painting a head! Don't try to match tints! Rose and pearly colours blend into each other so that no one can unite them if painted separately. Keep the impression of your subject as one thing!

It's important for me to see as many colors in the character as possible.

Black is not a color.

Thank you for allowing me to use colors as rich and deep as you please. I had always wanted to do so, yet was never allowed because of the color capabilities of our lithographers. Now that I have done it, I don't think I'll ever go back.

In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.

I used to hate doing color. I hated transparency film. The way I did color was by not wanting to know what kind of film was in my camera.

If I decide to make a coat red in the show, it's not just red, I think: is it communist red? Is it cherry cordial? Is it ruby red? Or is it apple red? Or the big red balloon red?

What works with your skin and eyes? Use that to zero in on your wardrobe.

It's really easy to get colors right. It's really hard to get black - and neutrals - right. Black is certainly a color but it's also an illusion.

I like to wear a lot of one-tone color outfits - same color trousers, same color shirt.

It would be much easier to just make black, brown and beige clothes. But I do not see the world in black and white and beige. I find colors incredibly important.

You've always got to have the right blend of colour. You'd be silly to match a yellow t-shirt with a light green pair of trousers, you know? You can wear different colours at the same time, and as long as they blend with each other then it works. That's what I like.

You must try to match your colors as nearly as you can to those you see before you, and you must study the effects of light and shade on nature's own hues and tints.

The goal is always to make a nice tableau painting with the voice. The more color I can find, the more shadow I can find - the goal is always to make more nuance and colors.

I just love the color purple on me, because it goes really well with my eye color.

I tend to wear outfits that match the walls.

During a color consultation, I like to reference food as a visual. Hot fudge and orange marmalade paint a clearer picture and helps prevent end results that leave you feeling unsatisfied.

Colored people come in all colors.