Adobe Acrobat 9 and Creative Suite 4 for Forensic and Law Enforcement Professionals

Posted on June 21, 2010, 9:23 am, by Carl, under Technical Resources.

Found an interesting on-demand seminar Adobe Acrobat 9 and Adobe Creative Suite 4 for Government Law Enforcement and Forensic professionals by Colin Smith from Adobe. He presents some interesting applications of Adobe Acrobat and Photoshop CS4 and how they can be used in analysis and presentation of evidence, that include:-

Use of image evidence in court presentations, and the importance of non-destructive editing.
Production of contact sheets.
Viewing EXIF data and metadata from images (including camera serial numbers and GPC coordinates).
Non-destructive editing and processing of images and video using smart objects.
Analysis of images using individual color channels to provide more detail and determine authenticity.
Recovering visual evidence from shadows and noise.
Using Photoshop layers to composite multiple images with stack modes for noise reduction.
Measurement tools.
Facial comparison.
Adding security to documents, and protecting and redacting sensitive information.
Useful additional plug-ins:- PhotoZoom Pro, Focus Magic