Adobe Certified Professional in Photoshop - Exam Guide

Name: Adobe Certified Professional in Photoshop - Exam Guide
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Validate your Photoshop skills and boost your creative career

Created byMartin Perhiniak

Last updated 5/2025

English

What you'll learn

All essential exam topics covered in depth with video lessons
Hands-on projects and practice exercises to reinforce your skills
Downloadable study guides and practice exams to track your progress
Pro tips and exam strategies to help you stay calm and focused under pressure

Course content

8 sections • 85 lectures • 8h 15m total length

About the course2:13
How to prepare for the exam using this course6:17
What to expect during the exam8:54
About the Photoshop exam0:37
About the exam
To earn a certification, you’ll need to pass a 50-minute exam that’s integrated with an Adobe app, developed by industry experts. Each exam requires roughly 150 hours of hands-on experience and instruction. Also, you’ll need to be able to work quickly in your chosen app during the exam in order to complete all the questions and live-in-the-app tasks within 50 minutes.
With Certiport’s new OnVUE remote option, you can certify from the comfort of your own home or office. OnVUE delivery is currently limited to English-language exams.
Find out more about the exam on the official Adobe pages:
https://certifiedprofessional.adobe.com/en/get-started
https://certifiedprofessional.adobe.com/photoshop#ExamGuide
https://certifiedprofessional.adobe.com/en/how-it-works
https://certiport.pearsonvue.com/Certifications/Adobe/ACP/Buy/Schedule
Adobe Photoshop User Guide:
This is a great additional resource if there are any areas you wish to learn more about.
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/user-guide.html

Good luck prepairing for the Visual Design Using Adobe Photoshop exam!
Exam objectives0:02
Exercise files0:02

Working in the Design Industry | Study guide0:01
1.1.a Identify the purpose, audience2:50
1.1.b Requirements based on video, print, and web6:38
1.2.a Key Components of Project Communication6:55
1.2.b Basic project management concepts4:17
1.3 Copyright, permissions, licensing and how use specific content5:52
1.4.a File formats8:45
1.4.a Resolution5:05
1.4.a Image Size5:20
1.4.a Aliasing3:50
1.4.b Color spaces5:29
1.4.b LAB color space and synchronizing Color Settings5:34
1.5.a Design elements and principles1:52
1.5.a Gestalt principles8:42
1.5.b Typographic hierarchy, readability and legibility5:34
1.5.c Photographic and cinematic composition terms5:40
1. Working in the Design Industry

Project Setup and Interface | Study guide0:01
2.1.a Set appropriate document settings for printed and onscreen images11:09
2.1.b Create a new document preset to reuse for specific project needs1:25
2.2.ab Identify elements of interface & Organize, customize the workspace14:42
2.2.c Configure application preferences4:06
2.3.ab Navigate a document6:12
2.3.c Use guides and grids8:04
2.4.a Open or import images from various devices9:14
2.4.b Place assets in a Photoshop document5:39
2.4.c Use the Adobe Camera Raw interface to import images3:10
2.5.a Set the active foreground and background color.mp46:56
2.5.b Create, customize, and organize gradients4:22
2.5.c Create, edit, and organize swatches2:12
2.6.a Open, browse, search libraries of included brushes, styles, and patterns6:23
2.6.b Create, use, edit, and organize brushes, styles, and patterns8:13
2. Project Setup and Interface

Organizing Documents | Study guide0:01
3.1.a Layers panel to manage visual content17:44
3.1.b Manage and organize layers in a complex project7:57
3.1.c Recognize the different types of layers in the Layers panel4:43
3.2.a Adjust a layer's opacity, blending mode, and fill opacity7:09
3.2.b Create and edit masks11:02
3.3.a Nondestructive editing: Smart Objects, Smart Filters, and adjustment layer11:56
3.3.b Destructive editing: painting, adjustments, erasing, and rasterizing6:52
3. Organizing Documents

Creating and Modifying Visual Elements | Study guide0:01
4.1.a 1 Crop Tool Group7:29
4.1.a 2 Brush Tool Group7:04
4.1.a 3 Clone Stamp Tool and History Brush5:53
4.1.a 4 Eraser, Gradient and Paint Bucket Tools3:56
4.1.a 5 Shape and Selection Tools14:59
4.1.a 6 Pen Tool Group8:20
4.2.a Type tools to add typography to a design9:52
4.2.b Character and paragraph settings6:55
4.2.c Rasterise text4:41
4.3.a Selections using a variety of tools13:27
4.3.b Modifying and refining selections6:02
4.3.c Save and load selections as channels2:44
4.4.a 1 Modifying the canvas or image8:56
4.4.a 2 Artboards Feature2:44
4.4.b Rotate, flip, and modify layers and objects8:27
4.5.a Basic auto-correction tools4:00
4.5.b Tools to repair and reconstruct images10:12
4.5.c Adjusting the appearance of objects, selections, or layers8:00
4.5.d Photographic changes to images using tools and adjustments10:35
4.6.a Using filters to modify images4:02
4.6.bc Layer Styles4:36
4. Creating and Modifying Visual Elements

Requirements

No prior Photoshop knowledge required
Adobe suggest 150 hours of hands-on experience with Photoshop to take the exam (this course can cut that time down to 15 hours)
Access to latest version of Adobe Photoshop
Desktop or laptop computer
The official exam is not included with this course and needs to be purchased separately.

Description

Become a Certified Photoshop Professional: Official Exam Preparation Guide

Are you ready to validate your Photoshop skills and boost your creative career? Whether you're aiming for that next big promotion, looking to impress freelance clients, or simply want to stand out in a crowded creative market, earning the Adobe Certified Professional in Visual Design using Photoshop is the ultimate way to prove your expertise.

I’ll guide you step-by-step through everything you need to confidently pass the official Adobe Photoshop Professional certification exam—the most respected industry credential for Photoshop users.

What You’ll Learn:

All essential exam topics covered in depth
Hands-on projects and practice exercises to reinforce your skills
Downloadable study guides and practice exams to track your progress
Pro tips and exam strategies to help you stay calm and focused under pressure

And the best part? You can now take the exam online from the comfort of your home!

Besides 8 hours of video training, which covers all the topics in great depth, this course also includes test exams that closely resemble the real exam experience with the same passing rates (70%). We also made sure that for every questions there is an explanation included (whether you answer correctly or not), which should help you with your revision.

Why Get Certified?
This globally recognized certification proves you have real-world, job-ready Photoshop skills. It’s a powerful addition to your resume that can open doors to new freelance opportunities, career advancements, and even higher salaries.

Whether you’re a Photoshop beginner or looking to sharpen your existing skills, this course will help you prepare for the live-in-the-app, 50-minute exam with confidence. Follow the lessons carefully, and you could be exam-ready in less than a week!

Note: The official exam is not included with this course and needs to be purchased separately. But don’t worry—I’ll walk you through every step of the process to ensure your success.

Lena (a student who used this class to prepare) has just passed here Photoshop Professional exam with flying colours (95%). Congratulations to her! Here is what she told me about her experience prepairing and taking the exam:

Lena: “Overall, I think it was an amazing and rewarding experience, and I’m very thankful for the excellent preparation the course provided. It so well-structured, detailed, and thoughtfully made that even though I already had experience with Photoshop, I still learned so much more. Martin's training has significantly improved the way I approach my work, and I truly appreciate the huge amount of effort it must have taken to organize and present so much knowledge so clearly.”

I hope this class will help you too to get certified and receive your printed certificate signed by Adobe’s CEO in the post ;)

Who this course is for:

Anyone who wish to get certified as a Photoshop Professional
This globally recognized certification proves you have real-world, job-ready Photoshop skills. It’s a powerful addition to your resume that can open doors to new freelance opportunities, career advancements, and even higher salaries.
Whether you’re a Photoshop beginner or looking to sharpen your existing skills, this course will help you prepare for the live-in-the-app, 50-minute exam with confidence. Follow the lessons carefully, and you could be exam-ready in less than a week!

Adobe Certified Professional in Photoshop - Exam Guide

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Course content

Introduction6 lectures • 18min

1. Working in the Design Industry16 lectures • 1hr 22min

2. Project Setup and Interface15 lectures • 1hr 32min

3. Organizing Documents8 lectures • 1hr 7min

4. Creating and Modifying Visual Elements22 lectures • 2hr 33min

5. Publishing Digital Media4 lectures • 20min

Test projects13 lectures • 1hr 2min

Final Tests and Conclusion1 lecture • 2min

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