Digital Communications' Flourishing Worldwide Audience

Used by more than 1.5 million creative professionals worldwide and with an audience of more than 560 million users across the web, Flash is the world's most pervasive software platform.

In 2007, the Web gained nearly 50 million sites in a single year, helping to make the current total well over 150 million distinct sites on the Internet.

Web Communication using Adobe® Dreamweaver®

Dreamweaver is the industry leading web development tool, enabling users to efficiently design, develop and maintain standards-based web sites and applications.

With Dreamweaver, you can go from start to finish, creating and maintaining basic web sites to advanced applications that support best practices and the latest technologies. The Adobe Certified Associate program offers the exam for the following Dreamweaver versions: Adobe Dreamweaver CS5, Adobe Dreamweaver CS4, Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 and Macromedia Dreamweaver 8.

2.What is covered on the exam?

Web Communication using Adobe Dreamweaver

3.Did You Know?

Findings from a recent study show workers in non-IT capacities are using digital communications skills in every-day work activities:

Since 2000, more specialized digital tasks have gained substantial traction in the workplace. In a recent survey, nearly 20 percent of the respondents said they performed video, audio, Web, or graphic production tasks once or twice a week while approximately another 40 percent stated they executed such tasks at least once every couple of months.

Over the past five years, the average growth of users in what was considered specialized digital tasks is greater than more mainstream tasks. Specifically, animation, video, and audio are the fastest growing areas with more than 35% growth over the last five years.

Source: "Digital Media Skills Initial Findings," California Community Colleges Media & Entertainment Initiative (MEI), January 2006.

Visual Communication using Adobe® Photoshop®

Photoshop is the industry standard for the utmost creative control in image editing and compositing. Photoshop enables users to animate video frames, paint and clone over multiple video frames, and import and export video files in a wide range of formats, engaging user experiences that create more accurate composites.

The Adobe Certified Associate program offers the exam for the following Photoshop versions:

Adobe Photoshop CS5, Adobe Photoshop CS4, and Adobe Photoshop CS3.

4.What is covered in the exams?

5.What experts say about Adobe Photoshop

"New and improved features make Photoshop faster, smarter, better looking, more fun and more inspiring. That's right Photoshop fans—the latest version of the world's most powerful image-editing program has just gotten better, big time!"

Source: PC Photo, July 2007.

"Photoshop CS3 offers a number of innovative features that increase the image-editing software's already awesome power to manipulate images. If you are using any of the new operating systems, an upgrade is essential to enhance performance."

6.Source: Digital Graphics, June 2007.

Video Communication using Adobe® Premiere®

Premiere is an industry leader in video production and editing whose powerful playback engine allows the creation and delivery of visual communications to be faster than ever before. Work in Adobe® Premiere® Pro to import, organize, and edit video clips. With Adobe® Premiere® Pro, users can manage effects, text, sound, or shapes in a video sequence to produce and export communications that dazzle and engage audiences. The Adobe Certified Associate program offers the exam for the following Premiere versions: Adobe® Premiere® Pro CS5.

7.What is covered in the exams?

8.What experts say about Adobe® Premiere® Pro

"Premiere Pro CS5 has taken video editing and production to another level. In fact, it's a whole new game. With just the 64-bit, the availability of more RAM, and the new Mercury Playback Engine, this is a worthy upgrade. With all of the other enhancements like metadata, tapeless workflows, Ultra, searchable web DVDs, and all the little fixes, this upgrade is really a must have."

Source: Blog Critics, June 2010.

"So what's the overall verdict on Adobe Production Premium CS5? If you have the computing horsepower, the Mercury Engine and CUDA acceleration deliver the closest that I've seen to the real-time, all-the-time experience we've been hearing about and waiting for since the last century. AVCHD and DSLR producers in particular could see absolutely shocking drops in preview and rendering time."

Source: Event DV, April 2010.