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Interview With Martin Perhiniak: Getting an Adobe Certification
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Interview With Martin Perhiniak: Getting an Adobe Certification

on Aug 27th 2011 with 29 comments

I recently had the opportunity to chat with Psdtuts author, Martin Perhiniak. Martin is the author of our Photoshop Basix and Digital Art for Beginners Series, and is an Adobe Certified Expert and Instructor. I frequently introduce Martin as an Adobe Certified Expert so in this interview I decided to ask him exactly what that means.

In our interview we discussed several topics including; how a person can become a certified expert, how you can prepare for the exam, and what you could gain by getting your certification. Martin also had some fun quizzing me with some questions that could be found on the exam. So please take a moment to watch this roughly 40 minute interview and see if I passed the test.

 
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Grant Friedman is a veteran blogger, social media addict, and design enthusiast. Grant has been blogging about the design industry since 2008 and is currently the editor of Psdtuts. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions about Psdtuts, feel free to direct them to Grant's Twitter account.  

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  • mxl

    I’m taking a multimedia degree and luckily for us, we get to take all the adobe certification for free and I passed the photoshop one on my first attempt, so I’m adobe certified, I just missed the pass mark for the flash one but will be taking it again.

  • Paul

    I just passed the Photoshop CS5 exam Thursday, so it will be interesting to watch this video (with the feeling of relief that it’s done, lol). The one thing I did that probably helped the most: a few days prior, I read the entire 623-page User Guide PDF that ships with the software (downloadable from Adobe also, as well as the PDF for the Creative Suite which covers Bridge and ACR ). It’s ok to skip DICOM and special things like that, they aren’t on the exam. Adobe publishes an Exam Guide with what questions are asked, and that is veryaccurate and informative.

  • http://www.jonathanjoshua.wordpress.com Jonathan Pimento

    This video somehow never plays right for me. It reaches half way and restarts. Can anyone pull out a few highlights and study material mentioned in here. Really appreciate it.

  • zen8

    Nice, i dont realy have the level yet i think but hopefuly ill take that soon !!
    Martin keep you tuts coming they are awesome thank you !!!

  • Raul

    great interview …

  • http://surrendrdeviantart.com Joey

    Ah, and the famous “effect” “affect” conundrum prevails!

    Enjoyed this Q&A

  • David

    I really enjoythat his video and it could not have come at a better time, since I’ve recently been considering getting certified. I’m happy to see that I got 4 out of the 5 answers correct in this video and the idea of instructing appeals to me as a way of supplementing my income as a designer. Good timing! -dp

  • roze

    thank you so much, I go to school and no one in our department had been certified…I have been trying to get advice on if I should or not….thank you so much for helping me decide!!!!!!

  • http://blog.amsomr.com Amassine

    Great work, thank you

  • Daniel

    Certification is something that keeps coming to mind. Being a Photoshop enthusiast with no qualifications means one of many similar users, but the qualification gives greater opportunity. Thanks for the examples, I’ll take more notice of processes from now on.

  • http://www.alainopina.com alain opina

    I want to be certified too… I want to teach people of Photoshop. I am so inspired by the interview. I just want to be like Martin Perhiniak… hehehhe…

  • http://www.alainopina.com alain o.

    I want to be certified too… I want to teach people of Photoshop. I am so inspired by the interview. I just want to be like Martin Perhiniak… hehehhe…….

  • http://www.oceandevelopers.in darshan

    hi, getting very inspired and full of encourage regarding Certification exams, yet not ready but will start soon for well, Thanks for http://www.examaids.com suggestion.

  • http://www.marius-johansen.com Marius

    Hi,

    Are you going to post the links he talks about?

  • http://www.istockphoto.com/studioxil Studioxil

    Thanks, nice interview.

  • http://cinitriqs.deviantart.com CiNiTriQs

    Nice interview, an insiders look. thanks for the video!

  • http://www.openboxesdesign.com Nicolas Felizzola

    Thanks Martin! You are always an inspiration!!
    perfect timing too!! I am thinking of taking the photoshop ACE here very soon!!!
    can’t wait to see those quizzes you guy’s talked about!

  • Luiz Felipe Soyer

    Wow! I really got an great comprehensive ideia on how it works and i’m feeling really selfmotivated to be a instructor and adobe expert certificate. Thank you Martin and Grant for those insights. It was really funny the 5 questions part tho. As you i missed the last one :P damnn. hahaha
    Greetings from Brazil. Thank you.

    • http://psd.tutsplus.com/ Grant Friedman
      Author

      It was a pop quiz. Martin didn’t give me any time to study ;-)

  • http://www.parasuniversal.com Paras Universal

    It’s always good to put a face to online tutors especially someone that has brought so much valuable tuts and info to us. Great info. I used to debate about being an ACE… you put all those doubts to rest. Thanks to you guys.

  • mohamed

    lol nice interview :)

  • Charles B

    Great vid! In addition to his comments, I would say that I used the Classroom in a Book series and also Lynda.com. I spent about two months preparing for my first ACE test (Illustrator CS4) using Lynda.com. Deke is AMAZING! You’ll learn so much from him.

    After that, I only took about a week to study for the subsequent exams. I had all the Classroom in a Book series for CS4.

    The help manual is also your friend when studying for these exams. You need to know all tool modifiers ctrl, alt, shit and what they do to the tools. You also need to know how the tool can help you and WHY you should use it. Its not just know that the tool is there but why should you use it!

    –
    Charles B
    Adobe Certified Expert, Acrobat X
    Adobe Certified Expert, Dreamweaver CS5
    Adobe Certified Expert, Flash CS5
    Adobe Certified Expert, InDesign CS5
    Adobe Certified Expert, Illustrator CS5
    Adobe Certified Expert, Photoshop CS5
    Adobe Certified Expert, Design Master CS4
    Adobe Certified Expert, Web Master CS4

  • Entry

    Thank you Martin. You do such a great Job here. +1

  • http://www.mlangella.com/blog Manuela

    Martin Perhiniak is very easy to understand when he talks and explains. I’d like to have a teacher like him!!!!

  • javier

    I need more experience so I could certify in photoshop still never ceases to practice and expand my knowledge more clear that this is verified when one has more plus on his resume and has more chance to get a good job, I needed to see something like this to find out how one has to prepararce for Adobe certifications

  • claire

    It seems like a simple answer to my question. I presume that to become a Adobe design master is needed to take separately the experts exams?.

  • Charles B

    @Claire Yes, you receive the Design Master cert after passing Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Acrobat.

  • Marvin Goldstein

    Martin,
    I have over 1,200 action files and with two monitors I cannot see all of them whenever I need to select an action …

    Do you have a suggestion in order to view this many optional actions ???

    Kindest Regards,
    Marvin

  • imad eddine

    Thank you very much that was vry halpful ,thank you again