ACE Training

[cornerglobe]

What is the best study guide for test prep for the Photoshop CS ACE test?
thanks

[Frode]

Hope you mean CS2...
Download the prep guide http://partners.adobe.com/public/ace/main.html
There are some books with question aviable, but I don´t remember them. I have not used them either.
I used Ben Willmores Studio Techniques, Classroom in a book, The user guide and the Help in PS.

Good luck!

[AdobeAce]

Hi cornerglobe,

The Prep Guide for the test that Frode recommends is perfect. I've used these test outlines for both the InDesign and Illustrator tests with no problem. I just copy and paste all the sections into a document and then fill in all the information that I can find under each section. Works great!

I remember someone a while back in the MacDesign forums had the misconception that anyone could pass these ACE tests if they studied hard enough.

WRONG!

A typical user could study forever and not pass. Without a lot practical experience to go along with the studying, these tests would be impossible to pass. They're designed to eliminate the "Overnight Wonders" who study hard but are not experts.

So, if you start with solid experience and study hard, you'll have no problem doing well.

Best of luck to you!

ACE

:D

[The Repro Kid]

I remember Warking was very disgusted that he did not pass.

But he was very good with drawing with Illustrator.

But he did have an idea that a good draughtsman (how the heck do you spell draughtsman?) did not need to be a master of his materials.

That, I think, was the wrong approach.

[AdobeAce]

Hey Repro,

Absolutely right!

I thought I really knew Photoshop until I watched Inside Adobe Photoshop CS2, a training DVD instructed by Steve Weinrebe, a friend and Adobe Certified Instructor in Photoshop CS2. Wow! What an eye opener.

It reminded me that there's a huge difference between creating beautiful images by using the features that YOU KNOW in Photoshop and creating a possibly more beautiful image (far more efficiently) by being an expert in and using the vast array of features available.

Ace

[The Repro Kid]

Howdy ace. I'm thinking experience using the program would be my first choice as a starting place. I hate to say it but I also think experience with older versions also really separates the deeply experienced from the one-version-wonders. It is such an advantage to have started out near the beginning and grow along with an application, rather than play catch up and have to learn what was once considerred the basics and what now are seen as little known intricacies.