BASIC FORENSIC IMAGE PROCESSING

DELRAY BEACH, FL   |   FEBRUARY 5 - 7, 2020

Instructor:
Natalie Kirk, MFS, MA


Location:
Delray Beach Police Department
Seacrest Training Center
2350 N. Seacrest Boulevard
Delray Beach, FL 33444
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​Hours: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Tuition: $387

This course is presented in partnership with the
International Association for Identification.

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Basic Forensic Image Processing

Course learning Objectives

File types
What is Compression?

• Lossy vs Lossless

              - Should I shoot in RAW?
              - Pros and cons of each file type

Bridge
More than a File Explorer

• Viewing and Organization

              - Importing from the camera
              - Labels
              - Filters
              - Detail Comparison

• Catalogs and Renaming

              - Batch rename
              - Catalogs

• Other

              - Contact Sheet
              - Automated tasks

Adobe camera raw
Primary adjustments

• Batch corrections

              - Apply minor adjustments to several images at once, ex. White Balance correction.

Opening Photoshop
Familiarize with the user interface

• Setting up the Workspace

              - Navigation, Tools, panels, palettes, preferences, etc.

• Preferences

              - Scratch disks and history log

• Panels

              - How to show/hide and dock

• Tools

              - What they do
              - Where they are

Image Calibration

• Resolution

             - Resizing for digital or print format viewing

• Cropping and Canvas Size

             - Straightening
             - Perspective correction

Layers & Adjustments
What are Layers? What is destructive editing?

• Layer types

              - Adjustment Layers
              - Duplicate layers
              - Grouping
              - Labeling

• Filters

              - Sharpen
              - Blur
              - Lens Correction

• Masking

              - Non-destructive editing
              - Isolating edits to affect chosen areas of an image

Channels and Color Modes
How does color affect an image?

• Color Modes

               - RGB
               - CMYK
               - LAB
               - Grayscale

• Channel Separation

               -Channel Mixer
              - Black and White
              - Isolating color-based information

Overlay Techniques and Blending

• Panoramas
• Focus Stacking

              - Composite multiple exposure images

Actions

• Turn multi-step edits into a button

              - How to create a set of actions
              - Pros and cons

Preparing Figures

• Case notes and presentations
  • Text
  • Shapes
  • Arrows and Lines
  • Enlargements

Class Requirements
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Materials Needed:

Participants are required to bring a laptop computer with a working copy of Adobe Photoshop CC or Adobe Photoshop CS6 and Adobe Bridge. The trial version is acceptable. Please do not download and install the trial version more than two weeks before the course to ensure that the software functions properly throughout the class.

Materials Suggested:

Connectable mouse

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LODGING

Hyatt Place Delray Beach
104 NE 2nd Avenue
Delray Beach, FL 33444
461-330-3530

Room Rate:  $203 per night plus tax (GSA Rate) King Room with Sleeper Sofa or Double Queen Room with Sleeper Sofa

Booking Info:  Call the hotel's reservation line at 1-888-HYATT-HP (492-8847), and ask for the Delray Beach Police Group February to receive the special rate. You can also visit https://delraybeach.place.hyatt.com/ and enter in the Group Code (G-DBPG) or use the hotel booking link below.

*Reservation cutoff date for this special rate ends on January 5th, 2020.

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REGISTRATION

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