Has anyone done any Adobe certifications?

Messiah Khan · 25 Jun 2009 at 14:38

My appraisal at work is coming up soon and I am tempted to ask for official Adobe training. I have about 14 years of Photoshop experience, along with experience of most of their other programs. So I am thinking of becoming Adobe certified. Anyone done any official Adobe training? Is it worth it?

Ciphon · 25 Jun 2009 at 14:42

I haven't done the certification. Nor do I have the expierance you have, basically my opinion is probably useless

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I do however think that it would be worth doing! Many people use Adobe products, or atleast know of them! I think the certifications would be recognised if you were applying for jobs and things.

Messiah Khan · 15 Oct 2009 at 22:58

Well after a few delays I have finally had my appraisal. Looks like I'm going to be very busy with exams in the next year! I'm going to my Adobe Certified Expert exams in Photoshop and Lightroom, then try and go for the Adobe Certified Trainer certification.

I am also going to do the Final Cut Studio Master Trainer programme in the full Final Cut Studio suite, covering Final Cut Pro, Color, Motion, DVD Studio and various other bits.

I am also doing other bits of training, including advanced colour management training, Apple Certified Support Professional, Technical project management training.

So that should make me qualified to the hilt and keep me out of trouble for a while

feriso · 16 Oct 2009 at 09:06

Messiah Khan said:
I am also going to do the Final Cut Studio Master Trainer programme in the full Final Cut Studio suite, covering Final Cut Pro, Color, Motion, DVD Studio and various other bits.

*jealous*

Me want that too...... god knows how much it'd cost for me though :s

gord · 16 Oct 2009 at 09:44

Hmm, I'm wondering whether with your 14 years experience that people would really look past the qualifications anyway. Maybe if you had say a few years experience.

Still, it can never hurt to have your skills certified. I might look into doing this.

Messiah Khan · 16 Oct 2009 at 19:23

feriso said:
*jealous*

Me want that too...... god knows how much it'd cost for me though :s

If you are prepared to do the studying yourself (Which I will probably do for most of the qualifications) then the exams aren't actually that bad at all.

gord said:
Hmm, I'm wondering whether with your 14 years experience that people would really look past the qualifications anyway. Maybe if you had say a few years experience.

Still, it can never hurt to have your skills certified. I might look into doing this.

Yeah, experience will always win over qualifications, but it can't hurt having both. It also quantifies my knowledge by being able to demonstrate it to a certain level. Also if I do go for the full 'trainer' qualifications it means I could work official Adobe/Apple training centres if I so wished in the future.

Red and White · 16 Oct 2009 at 19:27

Messiah Khan said:
Well after a few delays I have finally had my appraisal. Looks like I'm going to be very busy with exams in the next year! I'm going to my Adobe Certified Expert exams in Photoshop and Lightroom, then try and go for the Adobe Certified Trainer certification.

I am also going to do the Final Cut Studio Master Trainer programme in the full Final Cut Studio suite, covering Final Cut Pro, Color, Motion, DVD Studio and various other bits.

I am also doing other bits of training, including advanced colour management training, Apple Certified Support Professional, Technical project management training.

So that should make me qualified to the hilt and keep me out of trouble for a while

cool. let me know what the material is like. quite fancy doing a few of the adobe ones myself. are you going through a company to get the study material etc?

Red and White · 14 Jan 2010 at 22:01

sorry for the bump, but did you ever do any of these?

feriso · 14 Jan 2010 at 22:44

I've been doing some looking into these and are the exams the ones that cost £125 to take?

'Wes · 14 Jan 2010 at 22:47

My job revolves around Adobe programs, funny thing is that when i started my job last January, i didn't know how to use Adobe or do my job at all, i picked it up after a week and knew how to use programs like Indesign, Audition, Premier, Photoshop etc without any problems whatsoever.