ICDL Image Editing (ICDL) case studies
ICDL Image Editing · Put your knowledge to work in context.
ICDL Image Editing is a practical certification that tests whether you can work confidently with digital images in a standard image editing application - opening and saving files in appropriate formats, adjusting tone and colour, making selections, working with layers, retouching and correcting common defects, combining images, and preparing finished output for screen or print. It suits office and administrative staff, marketing and social media assistants, teachers, students and anyone who produces visual material as part of their work and wants a recognised, vendor-neutral benchmark rather than a certificate tied to one software brand. The ICDL Image Editing case studies are 5 cases and about 3,066 words.
1The 600-pixel logo for a 300 mm banner
A customer brings a logo into your print shop on a USB stick as a JPEG measuring 600 x 400 pixels. They want it printed 300 mm wide across the top of a roll-up banner that will be read from about one metre away.
568 words, about 3 min2Orange and grainy ring photos from a windowsill
A jewellery maker photographs rings on white card with a smartphone propped on a windowsill. Daylight through the window mixes with a tungsten desk lamp, and the images come out with a strong orange cast and visible grain in the shadows.
607 words, about 3 min3Interior photo with muddy corners and a white window
You are retouching a 24 MP interior photograph for an estate agent. The room is well exposed in the middle, but the corners are muddy and dark, and the window is pure white with no detail left.
636 words, about 3 min4Six staff, three shoot days, one group banner
A firm wants a single group image of six staff for a website banner and for a 3 m wide exhibition panel. The staff could never be in the office together, so they were photographed in pairs on three different days.
623 words, about 3 min5One product shot, two very different destinations
A small ceramics studio has one high-resolution product photograph per item, captured in sRGB and saved as a 16-bit TIFF. They need: (a) marketplace listings - 2000 px on the longest side, under 2 MB each, on a white background; and (b) an A5 printed catalogue, 148 x 210 mm, printing at 300 ppi with 3 mm bleed, on coated stock.
632 words, about 3 min