Forensic Photoshop
a comprehensive imaging workflow for forensic professionals
Jim Hoerricks
A self confessed Photoshop fanatic since version 3 for Mac, Jim Hoerricks is an artist/designer/photographer and is a Forensic Video/Image Analyst for the Los Angeles Police Department's Scientific Investigation Division*. Jim specializes in blending techniques from the design world with the Forensic Workflow. Always an innovator, Jim established the LAPD's Forensic Video Lab in 2001, has been the lead analyst on many of the LAPD's high-profile cases, and helped set the standard by which video evidence is handled by the department. Jim has worked on loan to many local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies and has testified as an expert in Forensic Video Analysis in courtrooms throughout California.
In addition to his work in law enforcement, Jim is the author of the Forensic Photoshop blog (forensicphotoshop.blogspot.com) and a co-author of Best Practices for the Retrieval of Video Evidence from Digital CCTV Systems published by the Investigative Support & Forensics Subgroup of the Technical Support Working Group (TSWG). The TSWG is the US national forum that identifies, prioritizes, and coordinates interagency and international research and development requirements for combating terrorism.
As an CaPOST Certified Instructor, Jim has taught classes on Photoshop, Premier, and CCTV Evidence Retrieval for the National Association of Technical Investigators (NaTIA); Imaging Techniques for the Law Enforcement and Emergency Services Video Association (LEVA); Using Microsoft's PowerPoint to Present Video Evidence in Court for the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office; and has been a part time Photoshop Instructor in the Photography Department of the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Ca.
Jim in the news:
Read about Jim's work in the Summer 2007 edition
of the
IBEW Journal.
Read the interview with Jim on the Photopreneur.com blog
by
clicking here.
See the book featured on Photoshopsupport.com.
Click here to see the Forensic Tutorials space on Photoshopsupport.com.
See the feature on Forensic Photoshop in the Los Angeles City Employees Club Newspaper by clicking here.
Jim Hoerricks quoted in "Picturing Auschwitz" by Alec Wilkinson, in the March 17, 2008 edition of the New Yorker.
Watch Jim Hoerricks on the critically acclaimed special
Nazi Scrapbooks from Hell on the National Geographic Channel.
Read the Government Video interview with Jim by clicking here.
The blog is plugged on Datalink | Information+Design.
Read an article on Photoshop's Automatic Corrections by Jim in the Arkansas Identification News.
*The book, this web site, and the blog represent the work and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions or official positions of any of the author's employers and/or clients either past or present.
Jim Hoerricks
Author, Image Analyst, and Instructor.