Increase your skills
and showcase your knowledge with
technology certifications.
Become an Adobe Certified Associate. Earn your certification in Adobe Creative Cloud products, including Photoshop and Dreamweaver.
Choose a program below to begin your learning path.
Courses through LinkedIn Learning and Universal Class are free to you with your Pierce County Library System card. You will need to have your library card number available to pursue these learning pathways.
PhotoShop
Used for editing, creating, and retouching images as well as adding special effects.
Choose one or more of the courses below to enhance your skills and prepare you for the exam:
- Virtual Design Using Adobe PhotoShop
- LinkedIn Learning ‘Introducing PhotoShop’
- Universal Class ‘Adobe PhotoShop 101’
Illustrator
Used as a vector graphics app that lets you create logos, icons, drawings, typography, and illustrations for print, web, video, and mobile.
Choose one or more of the courses below to enhance your skills and prepare you for the exam:
- Graphic Design & Illustration Using Adobe Illustrator
- LinkedIn Learning ‘Introducing Illustrator’
- Universal Class ‘Adobe Illustrator 101’
InDesign
Use InDesign to create a variety of digital and printed material such as stationery, resumes, pamphlets, annual reports, catalogs, interactive digital publications, EPUBs, books, magazines, and more.
Choose one or more of the courses below to enhance your skills and prepare you for the exam:
- Print & Digital Media Publication using Adobe InDesign
- LinkedIn Learning ‘Introducing InDesign’
- Universal Class ‘Adobe InDesign 101’
Premiere Pro
Premiere Pro can be used for all common video editing tasks necessary for producing broadcast-quality, high-definition video.
Choose one or more of the courses below to enhance your skills and prepare you for the exam:
- Digital video using Adobe Premiere Pro
- LinkedIn Learning ‘Introducing Premiere Pro’
- Universal Class ‘Adobe Premiere 101’
Animate
Animate is used to design vector graphics and animation for television programs, online video, websites, web applications, rich internet applications, and video games.
Choose one or more of the courses below to enhance your skills and prepare you for the exam:
- Multiplatform Animation using Adobe Animate
- LinkedIn Learning ‘Learning Adobe Animate CC’
- Universal Class “Adobe Animate CC”
After Effects
Adobe After Effects is a 2.5D animation software used for animation, visual effects, and motion picture compositing. After Effects is used in film, TV, and web video creation.
Choose one or more of the courses below to enhance your skills and prepare you for the exam:
- Visual Effects & Motion Graphics using Adobe After Effect
- LinkedIn Learning, then search ‘Getting started with After Effects’
- Universal Class, then search ‘Adobe After Effects’
DreamWeaver
Adobe DreamWeaver CC is a web design and an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) application that is used to develop and design websites.
Choose one or more of the courses below to enhance your skills and prepare you for the exam:
- Web Authoring using Adobe DreamWeaver
- LinkedIn Learning ‘DreamWeaver CC Essential Training’
- Universal Class ‘DreamWeaver 101’
Finished learning? Get certified!
Taking a certification exam requires you have first taken a timed practice exam for that program and passed with a score of at least 85%. After you have achieved this, we will work together to schedule your final exam.
More Information
Please contact the Library’s Job + Business Center.
Washington State Library provides access to these Free Certifications for Washington State residents. If you are a library card holder in Pierce County, certifications are available here at no cost to you! Don’t have a library card yet? Sign up now!
