Adobe Certified Associate

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1 Adobe Certified Assoiate About the Adobe Certified Assoiate (ACA) Program The Adobe Certified Assoiate (ACA) program is for graphi designers, Web designers, video prodution designers, and digital professionals seeking offiial entry-level reognition of their ommuniation skills using Adobe produts. What is an ACA? An Adobe Certified Assoiate is an individual who has passed an Adobe Produt Profiieny Exam for a speifi Adobe software produt. Adobe Certified Assoiates are eligible to promote themselves to lients or employers as entry-level skilled users of Adobe digital media software. ACA ertifiation is a reognized worldwide standard for exellene in Adobe software knowledge. There are four areas of ACA ertifiation: Visual Communiation using Photoshop, Web Communiation using Dreamweaver, Rih Media Communiations using Flash Professional, and Video Communiation using Premiere Professional. To beome an ACA, you must pass a ommuniation program/produt-speifi profiieny exam and sign the ACA program agreement. When you beome an ACA, you enjoy these speial benefits: Professional reognition An ACA program ertifiate What Does This Logo Mean? It means this book will prepare you fully for the Adobe Certified Assoiate exam for Adobe Visual Communiation using Photoshop CS6. The ertifiation exam has a set of objetives, whih are organized into broader skill sets. Throughout this book, ontent that pertains to an ACA objetive is identified with the following Adobe Certified logo and objetive number below the title of the topi: ACA: PS

2 Visual Communiation Using Photoshop CS6 ACA Exam Objetives Objetive Skill Page 1.0 Setting Projet Requirements 1.1 Identify the purpose, audiene, and audiene needs for preparing 12 image(s). 1.2 Demonstrate knowledge of standard opyright rules for images and , image use Demonstrate knowledge of projet management tasks and responsibilities. 1.4 Communiate with others (suh as peers and lients) about design 12 plans. 2.0 Identifying Design Elements When Preparing Images 2.1 Demonstrate knowledge of image resolution, image size, and image 13, 22-23, file format for web, video, and print , Demonstrate knowledge of design priniples, elements, and image , 274 omposition. 2.3 Demonstrate knowledge of typography Demonstrate knowledge of olor orretion using Photoshop CS Demonstrate knowledge of image-generating devies, their resulting 447, image types, and how to aess resulting images in Photoshop. 2.6 Understand key terminology of digital images. Glossary 3,0 Understanding Adobe Photoshop CS6 3.1 Identify elements of the Photoshop CS6 user interfae and demonstrate 6-11 knowledge of their funtions Demonstrate knowledge of layers and masks , , Demonstrate knowledge of importing, exporting, organizing, 17-19, 28-29, 130, and saving , Demonstrate knowledge of produing and reusing images , Demonstrate an understanding of and selet the appropriate features and options required to implement a olor management workflow. 4.0 Manipulating Images using Adobe Photoshop CS6 4.1 Demonstrate knowledge of working with seletions Use Photoshop guides and rulers , 62-65, Transform images Adjust or orret the tonal range, olor, or distortions of an image , Demonstrate knowledge of retouhing and blending images. 124, ,

3 Visual Communiation Using Photoshop CS6 ACA Exam Objetives (ontinued) Objetive Skill Page 4.6 Demonstrate knowledge of type Demonstrate knowledge of filters Publishing Digital Images using Adobe Photoshop CS6 5.1 Demonstrate knowledge of preparing images for web, print, and video. 14, , , Adobe Certified Assoiate 527

4 Preparing for an Adobe Certified Assoiate Exam Every Adobe Certified Assoiate Exam is developed from a list of objetives, whih are based on studies of how an Adobe program is atually used in the workplae. The list of objetives determine the sope of eah exam, so they provide you with the information you need to prepare for ACA ertifiation. Follow these steps to omplete the ACA Exam requirement: Review and perform eah task identified with a Adobe Certified Assoiate objetive to onfirm that you an meet the requirements for the exam. Identify the topi areas and objetives you need to study, and then prepare for the exam. Review the Adobe Certified Assoiate Program. To review it, go online to Eah Adobe ertifiation exam orresponds to a partiular Adobe appliation used for digital ommuniation, and represents a single ertifiation. 4 Register for the Adobe Certified Assoiate Exam. ACA testing is offered at authorized Certiport testing enters in many ountries. To find the testing enter nearest you, go online to When ontating an authorized training enter, provide them with the Adobe Produt program exam name you want to take, whih you an take on a per-test basis; the student prie is $65, while the ommerial retail prie is $80. There is also a reertifiation exam for those who have already passed an ACA exam with a previous exam version, whih you an take on a per-test basis for the student prie of $50. For more information about the reertifiation proess, go online to As an eduational provider, you an also ondut unlimited ACA testing with the ACA Classroom Liense. The one-a-year fee allows a shool or institution to partner with Certiport to ondut unlimited online ACA testing for an entire ampus or within one lassroom with up to 30 omputers. If you are interested in beoming an exam provider, ontat a Certiport Representative at or adobeinfo@ertiport.om. Take the ACA exam. Taking an Adobe Certified Assoiate Exam The Adobe Certified Assoiate exams are omputer-delivered, losed-book tests onsisting of 40 multiple-hoie and appliation simulation questions that you have 50 minutes to omplete. The exams are urrently available worldwide in English only. They are administered by Certiport, independent third-party testing ompanies.

5 Exam Results At the end of the exam, a sore report appears indiating whether you passed or failed the exam. Diagnosti information is inluded in your exam report. When you pass the exam, your sore is eletronially reported to Adobe by Certiport. Within two weeks of passing a ertifiation exam, you ll reeive an offiial ertifiate in the mail with an Adobe Certified Assoiate logo that highlights your aomplishment. Getting More Information To learn more about the Adobe Certified Assoiate program, read a list of frequently asked questions, and loate the nearest testing enter, go online to: To learn more about other Adobe ertifiation programs, go online to: Adobe Certified Assoiate 529

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