Adobe Certified Professional - Photoshop Cert Prep

Course details

Are you ready to validate your Photoshop skills and boost your creative career? Whether you're aiming for that next big promotion, looking to impress freelance clients, or simply want to stand out in a crowded creative market, earning the Adobe Certified Professional in Visual Design Using Photoshop certification clearly proves your expertise. This comprehensive preparation course guides you through what you need to know. Use hands-on projects and practice exercises to reinforce your skills. Leverage downloadable study guides and practice exams to track your progress. Explore pro tips and exam strategies to help you stay calm and focused under pressure. Plus, dive into test exams that closely resemble the real exam experience with the same passing rates (70%), with an explanation provided for each question. Whether you’re a Photoshop beginner or looking to sharpen your existing skills, this course will help you prepare for the 50-minute exam with confidence.

Learning objectives
Identify critical concepts related to working with colleagues and clients in the design industry, as well as crucial legal, technical, and design-related knowledge.
Explain the interface setup and program settings that assist in an efficient and effective workflow, as well as knowledge about ingesting digital assets for a project.
Discover document structure such as layers and managing document structure for efficient workflows.
Learn about core tools and functionality of the application, as well as tools that affect the visual outcome of the document.
Explain saving and exporting documents or assets within individual layers or selections.

Concepts

Introduction

Introduction
What to expect during the exam

Chapter One

Identify the purpose and audience
Requirements based on video, print, and web
Key components of project communication
Basic project management concepts
Copyright, permissions, licensing, and how use specific content
File formats
Resolution
Image size
Aliasing
Color spaces
LAB color space and synchronizing color settings
Design elements and principles
Gestalt principles
Typographic hierarchy, readability, and legibility
Photographic and cinematic composition terms

Chapter Two

Set appropriate document settings for printed and onscreen images
Create a new document preset to reuse for specific project needs
Identify and manipulate elements of the interface and then organize and customize the workspace
Configure application preferences
Navigate a document
Use guides and grids
Open or import images from various devices
Place assets in a Photoshop document
Use the Adobe Camera Raw interface to import images
Set the active foreground and background color
Create, customize, and organize gradients
Create, edit, and organize swatches
Open, browse, and search libraries of included brushes, styles, and patterns
Create, use, edit, and organize brushes, styles, and patterns

Chapter Three

Layers panel to manage visual content
Manage and organize layers in a complex project
Recognize the different types of layers in the Layers panel
Adjust a layer's opacity, blending mode, and fill opacity
Create and edit masks
Nondestructive editing - Smart Objects, Smart Filters, and adjustment layers
Destructive editing - Painting, adjustments, erasing, and rasterizing

Chapter Four

Crop Tool group
Brush Tool group
Clone Stamp Tool and History Brush
Eraser, Gradient and Paint Bucket Tools
Shape and Selection tools
Pen Tool group
Type tools to add typography to a design
Character and paragraph settings
Rasterise text
Selections using a variety of tools
Modifying and refining selections
Save and load selections as channels
Modifying the canvas or image
Artboards Feature
Rotate, flip, and modify layers and objects
Basic auto-correction tools
Tools to repair and reconstruct images
Adjusting the appearance of objects, selections, or layers
Photographic changes to images using tools and adjustments
Using filters to modify images
Layer Styles

Chapter Five

Prepare images for export to web, print, and video
Export or save digital images to various file formats
Export to Creative Cloud Library

Projects

Projects - Nike
Project - Statues
Projects - Poster
Projects - Matriarch
Projects - Castle
Projects - Astronaut
Projects - Banners
Projects - Elephants
Projects - Runes
Projects - Volcano
Projects - Mushroom
Projects - Parkour

Conclusion

Conclusion