adobe certification ?

iam considering becoming adobe certified . anyone can tell me how this wil help me in my career path ? and how helpful are certmagic.com , hotcerts.com , nextcertify.com etc exam preps are for becoming adobe certified and anyone has any exam prep sites preference for these exams . i will appreciate all responses

[ovidiua2003]

dude...my belief is that no one i mean NO ONE should say it is certified in photoshop. not even the makers know what photshop can fully do. every day new techniques and features are discovered. you can pass an exam but it will be obsolete in a few monts...let;'s say couple of years.

just learn it yourself 1st...that's what im doing

[Tamlin]

If you're planning on a career as an Adobe trainer, then you definitely need the certification - otherwise, it depends very much on what you want to get out of it. If you're seeking a career in graphic design it'll depend very much on how impressed your prospective employer is going to be by a piece of paper. I personally believe that an impressive portfolio of work says far more about you than your abilities to pass an exam. In the past I have been in the position of employing software development contractors and to me it didn't matter if they had MCSE certificates from here to next week - I always wanted to see examples of their work, and if they weren't up to scratch, they didn't get the job.

Having said all that, you might want to have a look at this site: Adobe Certification Training BootCamp Exam Questions - TestKing

[visualchemistry]

Originally Posted by ovidiua2003

dude...my belief is that no one i mean NO ONE should say it is certified in photoshop. not even the makers know what photshop can fully do. every day new techniques and features are discovered. you can pass an exam but it will be obsolete in a few monts...let;'s say couple of years.

I can't agree with you more, I'm amazed that such a good quote hasn't been posted before.

One thing i've realised is that I may know what I want to do with the program and get the results that I want commercially but I don't use maybe 80% of the menus for the work I do. Photoshop is a sophisticated tool that is designed to work for so many different people and their particular field of work. I think it would take a lifetime to fully understand everything that PS can do (not including upgrades).

My advice would be to consider what you want to do in terms of design and then learn the aspects of PS that will enable you to fulfil those. Being self taught is, as far as I'm concerned a good thing, in fact it allows you to create new ideas without the stigma of tradition.... As Tamlin touched upon, if you want to train people to use PS then you do need to know a bit about everything..... but not much about anything in particular.. If however you want to do it as a career then find what you like the most, or are most adept at and gun it 'til you know everything you need to know (use online resources rather than the manual), you'll have a portfolio before you know it and that's what counts.