Digital Imaging and Image Enhancement

PLE Security & Investigations has designed this one-week course to focus on photographic and CCTV images and the emerging technologies of digital photography. Traditional ways of producing images with film, chemicals, and silver halide based paper products are still widely used, but technical innovations are increasing our options--options that enhance our abilities to produce professional images. While emerging technologies are changing so rapidly that many feel these options are obsolete virtually by the time they reach consumers, the facts remain clear. We now have remarkable tools and techniques for creating images faster, better, and more easily than ever before. The time to learn is now. The process of learning must continue as advanced technologies evolve.

With this course, PLE Security & Investigations will teach you how to convert images from still photographs or videotape into a digital format designed for the computer. You can work from digital or analog CCTV cameras, digital still cameras, prints or disks. (For example, Kodak has developed a process by which you can convert your images to a compact disk format that can be read by the computer). We will then teach you how to retrieve and enhance these images and how to print them using today’s laser and ink-jet printers.

Understanding digital imaging is about understanding the imaging chain. This course will describe what tools and techniques are available for each step in this imaging chain. For each option available, the course will cover costs and ease of use, and levels of compatibility, efficiency and quality.

During this course, PLE Security & Investigations instructors will address these issues and any questions you may have, but our true goal is more ambitious. If you leave this course with an understanding of the imaging chain, a clear picture of the technology available today, and a basic understanding of how to use that technology, you will be able to ask the right questions and make better selections of equipment, software, and imaging methods.

The Basic Requirements for Imaging on a Personal Computer

For attendance in the course, we require that you have access to a personal computer (PC), outside of the classroom, equipped to handle digital imaging technology. Minimum requirements are an IBM-compatible PC with a Pentium processor (Pentium II suggested), at least 64 megabytes of RAM, a 2.0 gigabyte hard drive, and the capability to run Windows 95 based software. If you choose to bring your own PC, it must meet these minimum requirements. Otherwise, PLE Security & Investigations will provide a computer for your use during classroom time.

Tuition for this course is $795.00