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Adobe Creative Cloud

Creative Cloud gives you the entire collection of Adobe desktop and mobile apps, from essentials like Photoshop to innovative new tools like Adobe XD. It is free for all students. Faculty and staff who need a license for instructional or business purposes should view instructions on requesting a license at the bottom of this page, under "Creative Cloud Resources for Faculty and Staff."

UNCW has purchased Adobe Creative Cloud for all students and select faculty and staff!

Certification Exams

The Testing Center is now set up to proctor Adobe Certified Professional exams. It is strongly recommended you review ACP test prep classes and take a few of the ACP practice tests before sitting for any ACP exams.

Additional exam information

Testing Center schedule and costs for ACP certification exams
Location: University Testing Center, DePaolo Hall, Room 1021
Times: There are four available time slots each weekday to take ACP exams: 9 a.m., 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.
Registration: Go to Testing Services and click on the link “Register ONLINE”
Cost: $18.50 ($15 proctoring fee + $3.50 processing fee)

Register Online with Testing Services

Adobe Certified Professional Program

The Adobe Certified Professional program allows you to demonstrate proficiency in Adobe digital communications tools. Become a Certified Professional and stand apart from your peers, boost your confidence and expand your career opportunities. UNCW offers ACP training, practice tests and certification exams for InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop and Premier Pro.

ACP Test Prep

ACP test prep is an online, hands-on, self-guided training that will help teach you the skills and the ACP exam concepts in preparation for taking the ACP certification exam. If you are interested, please click the button below to submit the Adobe Certification ITS Request located below.

Practice Tests

Get prepared for the ACP exam by taking practice tests. If you are interested, please click the button below to submit the Adobe Certification ITS Request located below.

Adobe Certification

Apps & Tutorials

Adobe Apps

Desktop

Make anything you can imagine with the world′s best creative desktop apps. Edit photos and videos. Design graphics and publications. Create websites, UX designs and animations. New Photoshop and Illustrator templates make it easy to jump right in. And one-click updates give you our latest innovations and new features as soon as they’re ready.

See a full list of all desktop  apps

Mobile

With Adobe mobile apps, you can work wherever you′re inspired. Sketch and draw. Edit photos. Create layouts. Make videos. Everything′s connected, so you can start a project on your phone, refine it on your tablet and finish it up on your desktop.

See a full list of all mobile  apps

Tutorials

Creative Cloud comes with hundreds of step-by-step tutorials, so you can get up and running fast. New templates inside Photoshop and Illustrator make it easy to design posters, magazines, mobile apps and more.

Start browsing Creative Cloud Tutorials

Transfer Assets upon Graduation

As a graduating student at UNCW, you have options available to continue using Adobe Creative Cloud!

Asset Migration

This feature allows you to migrate your assets from your school-assigned Adobe account to a new, personal Creative Cloud account. You will be able to move work such as Photoshop images, Illustrator graphics, Adobe Spark pages, Adobe Portfolio websites and Behance profiles to have access to them after graduation.

Please be aware of the following information before migrating:

  • You must still have access to your UNCW email.
  • You can only do this one time.

Please be aware that once you migrate your assets, if you create anything new using your UNCW Adobe account, you will not be able to migrate the new / additional content.

To begin asset migration: Visit Adobe and follow the instructions in the "Migrate your student assets" help article.

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