Study guides for Premiere Pro CS4 and Lightroom 2 ACE tests released by Examaids
Examaids have released study guides for Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 and Photoshop Lightroom 2. You can use them to prepare for the 9A0-097 and the 9A0-125 Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) product proficiency tests, respectively.
Key Features
- Challenging original questions divided into discrete modules
- Questions based on topic areas recommend for study by Adobe
- Explanatory answers that clarify concepts behind the questions
- Hyperlinks to appropriate pages selected from the application’s help file
- Study mode with option of previewing correct answers on demand
- Summary screen at the end of each module for reviewing its content
- Ability to print summary screens for studying without your computer
- Practice mode for testing yourself in a simulated official exam environment
- Capacity to generate unlimited practice tests based on the question pool
- Ability to raise or lower the threshold of each practice test
- Option of choosing which module, or modules, to include in a practice test
- Ability to specify number of questions to include from each module
- Countdown clock, scoring, grading, flagging, and sorting options
- Option of comparing your answers against the correct answers
- Keyboard shortcuts for viewing questions/answers and general navigation
Interface
The examEngine is streamlined and easy to use, leaving you free to concentrate on the task of studying for the exam.
The Photoshop Lightroom 2 exam was only released in November 2009 and is likely to be the most current even after Lightroom 3 is released later this year if past updates are anything to go by.
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After Effect CS4 ACE Exam Aid released by Examaids
Examaids have just released Adobe After Effects CS4 ACE Exam Aid. You can use it to prepare for the 9A0-096 (certification) or the 9A0-099 (recertification) Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) product proficiency test.
Key Features
- Includes 300 challenging questions divided into discrete modules
- What’s New section to help prepare for the recertification exam
- Original questions based on topic areas recommend for study by Adobe
- Explanatory answers that clarify concepts behind the questions
- Hyperlinks to appropriate pages selected from the application’s help file
- Study mode with option of previewing correct answers on demand
- Summary screen at the end of each module for reviewing its content
- Ability to print summary screens for studying without your computer
- Practice mode for testing yourself in a simulated official exam environment
- Capacity to generate unlimited practice tests based on the question pool
- Ability to raise or lower the threshold of each practice test
- Option of choosing which module, or modules, to include in a practice test
- Ability to specify number of questions to include from each module
- Countdown clock, scoring, grading, flagging, and sorting options
- Option of comparing your answers against the correct answers
- Keyboard shortcuts for viewing questions/answers and general navigation
Topics Covered
- User interface and workflows
- Importing and organizing footage items
- Working with other software and dynamic link
- Projects and compositions
- Working with layers in the timeline
- Views and previews
- Building 3D compositions
- Color and HDR
- Drawing, painting, and paths
- Shape tools
- Creating and animating text
- Transparency and compositing
- Working with effects
- Markers and metadata
- Memory, storage, and performance
- Tracking
- Expressions
- Rendering and exporting
- What’s New (Recertification)
Interface
The examEngine is streamlined and easy to use, leaving you free to concentrate on the task of studying for the exam.
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Adobe release Lightroom 3.0 public beta
Adobe have released a public beta of Lightroom 3.0. They are still working on the features and performance, so this version is by no means final. It will work through April 2010 and expire thereafter.
You can download the beta from Adobe Labs
For a feature list, visit the Lightroom Journal
For a guided video tour by Julieanne Kost, visit Adobe TV