Photoshop Forensics - 2 day

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OFFER - If you book this course you are entitled to £100 credit for any further course with FlexiCredit.

Overview

This class provides you with the knowledge of how to use Photoshop in a forensic situation.

Who is this course for?

The class is for people with little or no experience of Photoshop.

Assumed knowledge

You do not require any previous Photoshop skills.

What you will learn

• Best practices
• Reports and testimony
• Setting up Photoshop
• Navigating with the Adobe Bridge
• Basic image adjustments
• Preparing court exhibits
• Automating Photoshop
• PDF presentations
• Photomerge
• Image sizing and measuring
• Distortion correction
• Contrast enhancements
• Non-destructive filtering
• Forensic video analysis

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Photoshop Advanced - 2 day

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Photoshop Forensics - 2 day

Best practices

• Rules of evidence
• Case law
• Aspects of best practices

Reports and testimony

• Report writing
• Court testimony

Setting up Photoshop

• Monitor calibration
• Colour settings
• Preferences
• Workspaces 

Navigating with Bridge

• Downloading and archiving digital images
• Bridge preferences
• Working with images and video in Bridge
• Keywords
• Working with metadata
• Working with Camera RAW
• The interface and preferences
• Making image adjustments in Camera RAW
• Working with JPEG and TIFF images

Basic image adjustments

• About resolution
• Using HDR
• Using Smart Objects
• Non-destructive tonal adjustments
• Transforming and cropping images 

Preparing court exhibits

• Using court exhibits
• Creating court exhibits
• Labelling court exhibits

Automating Photoshop

• Creating and running actions on multiple files
• Contact sheets 

PDF presentations

• Creating, opening and viewing presentations

Photomerge

• Panoramic photography
• Merging the images

Compositing images

• Compositing and combining images

Precise image sizing

• Viewing images at proper magnification
• Photographing for accurate measurement
• Calibrating image size
• Sizing and printing

Measuring objects

• Importance of measuring
• Annotating images
• Measuring objects

Distortion correction

• Correcting wide-angle distortion
• Reusing distortion-correction settings
• Perspective correction 

Contrast enhancement

• Global adjustments
• Using Layer masks 

Non-destructive filtering

• Smart Filters
• Noise-reduction methods
• Reduce noise filter
• Median filter
• Sharpening
• Blurring 

Isolating colour

• Separating colour channels
• Channel mixer 

Pattern removal

• Using the Clear ID pattern remover
• Using the Image FFT filter

Forensic video analysis

• Demultiplexing in Bridge
• Deinterlacing video
• Field alignment
• Field level advance in Photoshop
• Frame averaging using layers and image stacks
• Pixel aspect-ratio correction

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Photoshop Forensics - 2 day

Offers

FlexiCredit

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The FlexiCredit - earn rewards on short courses

It's very simple: get rewarded if you book any of our short courses with training credits. Just book any 1-day or 2-day scheduled course at our London Covent Garden or Cardiff training centres and you will receive credit towards any course in the future – that's the FlexiCredit!

You can use these credits within 12 months of your first qualifying booking, and even accumulate your FlexiCredits.

Collecting FlexiCredits

• Book a 1-day course - get £70 + VAT off a future course
• Book a 2-day course - get £100 + VAT off a future course

This offer does not include private training

How to book

Just email us confirmation of your valid booking(s) that qualified for the FlexiCredit.

Terms and conditions

• The FlexiCredit scheme started on the 22nd August, 2011 and only applies to bookings after this date
• FlexiCredits can only be used as payment or part-payment towards a Certitec training course running at locations mentioned
• You will be emailed your FlexiCredits after payment and completion of your course with Certitec
• FlexiCredit is applicable only if the full RRP is paid for your course(s). Any discounting invalidates the FlexiCredit. If discounting has been applied you can pay back the difference in order to qualify for the offer
• Any booking paid or part-paid by a FlexiCredit does not earn FlexiCredits
• FlexiCredits cannot be used against any 'special deals' - only courses on our main website
• You can 'give' your FlexiCredits to another person/company providing you email us intention of 'hand-over' and the delegate name(s) for the course benefitting from the credits. This will entail an administration charge of either £50 + VAT or the same number of FlexiCredits.
• The FlexiCredit offer lasts for 12 months from the first date of your qualifying booking(s).

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Our courses come with free training at London Covent Garden and Cardiff!

It's very simple: just book a day of private training or one of our 3-day, 4-day or 5-day scheduled courses (or any combination days) and you'll qualify for additional free training at our London Covent Garden or Cardiff training centres – that's the FlexiDeal^®.

And as long as you take these additional courses within 6 months of your first qualifying booking, you can even accumulate your FlexiDeal®.

Collecting FlexiDeals^®

• Book a 1-day private course – get 1 day free
• Book a 3-day scheduled course – get 1 day free
• Book a 4-day scheduled course – get 1 day free
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Acrobat

• Acrobat Essentials (1 day)
• Acrobat Introduction (2 day)
  
• Acrobat Advanced (2 day)
  
• Acrobat Forms (1 day)
• Acrobat ACE (2 day)

After Effects

• After Effects Introduction (2 day)
• After Effects Advanced (3 day)
• After Effects Masterclass (5 day)

Dreamweaver

• Dreamweaver Web Building Introduction (3 day)
• Dreamweaver Web Building Masterclass + Certification (5 day)
• Dreamweaver ACA Prep + Exam (1 day)
• Dreamweaver ACE (2 day)

Flash

• Flash Introduction (2 day)

Illustrator

• Illustrator Introduction (1 day)
• Illustrator Introduction (2 day)
• Illustrator Advanced (2 day)
• Illustrator Masterclass (4 day)
• Illustrator ACE (2 day)

InDesign

• InDesign Introduction (1 day)
• InDesign Interactive (1 day)
• InDesign Print Production (1 day)
• InDesign Introduction (2 day)
• InDesign Advanced (2 day)
• InDesign ePub (1 day)
• InDesign iPad+Android (1 day)
• InDesign Masterclass (4 day)
• InDesign ACE (2 day)

Photoshop

• Photoshop Introduction (2 day)
• Photoshop Advanced (2 day)
• Photoshop Masterclass (4 days)
• Photoshop Masterclass + Certification (5 day)
• Photoshop ACE (2 day)

Premiere Pro (Cardiff only)

• Premiere Pro Introduction (3 day)

• Premiere Pro Intermediate + Certification (2 day)
• Premiere Pro Masterclass + Certification (5 day)

How to book

Just email us confirmation of your valid booking(s) that qualified for the FlexiDeal^®.

Terms and conditions

• FlexiDeal^® is applicable only if the full RRP is paid for your course(s). Any discounting invalidates the FlexiDeal^®. If discounting has been applied you can pay back the difference in order to qualify for the offer
• The FlexiDeal^® offer lasts for 6 months from the first date of your qualifying bookings
• The FlexiDeal^® is not available to funded individuals although we might apply at our descretion depending upon the number of training days booked under the particular scheme

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Photoshop Forensics - 2 day

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Requirements

• Basic knowledge of Windows or Macintosh.
• Understand how to launch an application and save files.
• For web courses you will need to have knowledge of web browsers.

General information

• Courses start at 10am and finish at 5pm. Please arrive 30 minutes prior to the start of the course on the first day.
• We operate a casual dress code.
• We supply all computers, software and courseware, pads, pens, lunch and refreshments.
• We have both Apple OSX Lion and Windows 7 systems.
• Bring along a USB/Flash drive so you can take away your course files.
• Following your course, we will email you an Adobe Authorised Course Completion Certificate.
• Each course comes with either on-line assets (electronic book/PDF or movies) to download or a high-quality Visual Quickstart 500-page training book. We are migrating most course assets to on-line downloads during 2012.
• Access to a secure section of our site that offers useful tips and tricks.

Lunch

London Covent Garden and Cardiff - Flexible lunch vouchers are used and redeemable at outlets nearby such as Bella Italia, Eat, Nandos, Pizza Express, Pret A Manger, Starbucks, Sainsbury's and Tesco to name but a few.

Bristol - Look out for our designer cold buffet lunch.

Support

We supply 6-months rock-solid support via email on the subject matter covered during the course. Find out more…

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High-quality training book supplied with this course

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• Adobe Certificate
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• Tips and tricks
• Lunch and refreshments
• Satisfaction Guarantee

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High-quality training book supplied with this course

Included with course:

• Adobe Certificate
• 6 months support
• Tips and tricks
• Lunch and refreshments
• Satisfaction Guarantee