The Fundamentals of Digital Imagery.

Everything you need to know to understand how digital images are created, how to capture the highest quality results, learn the different color spaces, bit rates, and much, much more.

Understanding the fundamental technical aspects of digital imagery.


Your Instructor


phil hawkins
phil hawkins

Born in 1953 in Burlington, NC, I cannot remember a time when I did not have a camera in my hand. My first camera was a 1955 Kodak Retina Reflex SLR, one of the first SLRs at that time, and three lenses.

My first gallery showing was at the age of 15 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. That same year I produced a documentary photo series on black poverty for Congresswoman Francis Dawson, in Burlington, NC.

At age 16 I covered racial unrest in Chapel Hill for The Chapel Hill Weekly newspaper. This coverage resulted in threats on my life, so I was enrolled at Hargrave Military Academy, in Chatham Virginia. There, I got into radio and spent 12 years as a rock 'n roll DJ and 3 years as an NCAA women's basketball color analyst, and 13 years as a high school basketball referee.

In 1981 I moved to California and stayed 37 years. I now live near Austin, Texas.

I am proud to be a contracted Adobe Beta Tester, providing Adobe with pre-release testing of Photoshop as new features are developed and prepared for general release.

I am also a contracted beta tester for DxO Photolab as DxO tests new features and upgrades prior to general release.


Course Curriculum


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