AFTERGLOW

Graphics LoungeOnline Workshop

Photoshop and Premiere, taught to the certificate. Tuesday and Thursday, 6:30 to 8:30, CCHS Tech Center. A Moonlight Dojo program.

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22Tue, Sep

Doors open Tuesday

Night 1: What you signed up for

6:30 to 7:30. Short night. Bring nothing. Leave early.

Start here

This room gets you ready for two Adobe exams. You take them whenever you're ready, on your own dime, and the certificate is yours for three years.

50 min

Each exam runs inside the real software. You do tasks, not multiple choice.

700

out of 1,000 to pass. Same bar for Photoshop and for Premiere.

3 yrs

A certificate is good for three years from the day you earn it. Not one.

56 hrs

of class. Adobe suggests 150 hours of practice. This room is the floor, not the ceiling.

How to read a night

Every night on this site is built the same way, so once you've done one you know how to do all of them.

  1. What a complete project looks likeThe finished thing, described so plainly you can hold your own work up next to it and see what's missing. Read this first. Read it again when you think you're done.
  2. The pathNumbered steps. No padding. If you already know the software, this is all you need.
  3. If it goes sidewaysThe things that go wrong, and what to do about each one. Skip it if nothing's wrong. It's there when something is.
  4. CheckpointA list. Every box, or it isn't done. You check yourself.
  5. What this coversThe exam objective numbers. So you always know why you're doing what you're doing.

The shape of the semester

Two short nights to get oriented. Eleven nights of Photoshop. Eleven nights of Premiere. Winter break to study. Four nights in January to take practice exams, patch what's weak, and register for the real thing.

Photoshop comes first on purpose. Layers, masks, and non-destructive editing are the same ideas in Premiere with different names, so you learn them once.

The 28 nights

A night unlocks the Monday of its week. Until then you see what it's about, not what's in it.

    The wall

    AFTERGLOW

    Nobody's on it yet. The first name goes up the night the first certificate comes back.