Photoshop Forensics is designed to meet the needs of law enforcement and intelligence personnel–image and video analysts, crime analysts, latent print specialists, questioned document examiners, crime scene photographers, and other forensic specialists. The course specializes in teaching techniques and workflow for using Photoshop in a forensic environment. It’s goal is to help you build an accountable, repeatable workflow to analyze and enhance images for investigation and litigation while remaining true to the images original content and context.
The Photoshop Forensics course will teach you a workflow that addresses digital imaging evidence concerns raised by State v. Swinton (aka “the Swinton Six Challenge”).
What You Will Learn
- Reveal and enhance features not visible to the naked eye
- Fixing focus problems
- Correcting for camera shake
- Proper archival processes
- Reveal details in hidden deep shadow
- Reveal details in hidden bright glares
- Automating processes in Photoshop
- Batch operations
- Automatic image processing without opening Photoshop
- Batch file renaming
- Adding and editing metadata
- Digital darkroom techniques
- Scanning
- Correct extreme angles to reveal hidden details
- Fingerprint processing
- Enhancing latent prints
- Fourier transformation
- Noise reduction
- Sharpening
- Surveillance video screen capture
- Video de-interlacing techniques
- Video capture enhancements
- Sizing one to one
- Photogrammetry (measuring objects and distances)
- …And more.