Forensic Digital Imaging with Adobe Photoshop
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Day One

Digital Photography & Digital Imaging

• Benefits
• Workflow
• Equipment (Course Material > DigitalCaptureMethods.pdf)
• Theory

Admissibility in Court (Course Material > digital_image_integrity.pdf and AdmissibilityInCourt.pdf)

• Frye/Daubert
• Case Law
• Rules of Evidence - Federal 1001-1008 (Rules of Evidence PDFs)

Forensic Digital Image Processing (Course Material > forensic image processing.pdf and fi_guidelines.pdf)

Photoshop/Bridge Setup

• Best practice (Course Material > Best Practices for Video Evidence.pdf)
• Handling guidlines (Course Material > CD and DVD Careand HandlingGuide.pdf)
• Monitor Setup (Course Material > Monitor Setup.pdf)
• Color settings (Course Material > Color Settings.pdf)
• History log (Course Material > History Log.pdf)
• Preferences (Course Material > PS_Preferences.pdf)
• Adobe Bridge ((Course Material > Adobe Bridge.pdf)

Creating Photoshop Actions

• What are actions (Course Material > Photoshop Actions.pdf)
• Duplicate and Convert to 16 bit action for forensic image processing (Course Material > Working with Duplicates.pdf)
• Batch processing (Course Material > Batch Processing.pdf)

Resolution and Sizing

• Sizing 1:1 (Course Material > ImageSize.PDF & Resizing Images.pdf)

Digital Darkroom Techniques

• Histogram (Course Material > Histogram.pdf)
• Tonal Adjustments (Course Material > Adjustment Layers Levels.pdf)
• Contrast and Density
• Color Correction (Course Material > Color Correction.pdf)
• Working with blending modes
• Denoising
• Making Global Adjustments
• Making Local Adjustments
• Masking and Selections
• Matching Color
• Sharpening (Course Material >Sharpening01.pdf and Sharpening02.pdf)
• Tonal Inversion
• Color Isolation (Course Material > Channel Splitting.pdf & Channel Mixer.pdf)

Day Two

Lens Distortion and Correction

Layer Blending Modes

Working with RAW

Scripts and Plug-ins (Course Material >Scripts and Plugins.pdf)

• Ocean Systems (ClearID)
• Reindeer Graphics (Fovea Pro)
• Pattern Removal
• FFT (Course Material > Fast Fourier Transform.pdf and FFT.pdf)
• Focusing
• Color Deconvolution
• De-noising
• Equalization and Adaptive Equalization (Course Material > AdaptiveEqualization.pdf)

Video Image Processing (Course Material > Order of Video Image Processing.pdf and VideoEnhancement.pdf)

• Deinterlacing (Course Material > DeInterlacing01.pdf & DeInterlacing02.pdf)
• DeMultiplexing (Course Material > DeMultiplexing)
• Frame Averaging (Course Material > Frame Averaging.pdf)
• Pixel Aspect Ratio (Course Material > Aspect Ratio.pdf)
• Image Resampling
• Removing Noise (Course Material > RemovingNoiseSingleFrame01.pdf and RemovingNoiseSingleFrame02.pdf)

Frame Stitching and Animating

Photomerging

Photogrammetry (Course Material > object heights.pdf and FBI Forensics handbook_photogrammetry.pdf)

Preparing Images to Print (Course Material > Printer Test.pdf)

Image Authentication (Course Material >ImageAuthentication.pdf)

Annotating

Photo Lineup (Course Material >PhotoLineUps.pdf)

Making Contact Sheets (Course Material > Preparing Contact Sheets.pdf)

Creating Court Displays (Course Material > Court Displays.pdf and Annotations.pdf)

Creating Multi-Page PDF documents (Course Material >PDF Documents.pdf)