Hi all. Who doesn’t love a quiz right? Just for fun I thought I’d make a little Photoshop Quiz to test some of your skills. This one is 15 questions.
Personally, I think it’s pretty hard so it’ll be interesting to see how everyone does (Update after 30 minutes: Okay, it’s REALLY hard… sorry). Please COMMENT BELOW on how you did when you’re done 🙂 Enjoy!
Also, this is a great weekend to get started with my new Photoshop “How To” Course. It’s turning out to be one of my top selling Photoshop Courses. This is your chance to get in on the ground level of a course that will get new videos added over time, as well as some great sensitive bonuses.
Click Below to take the quiz. It will OPEN A NEW WINDOW so make sure any pop-up blockers are disable if you don’t see it.
Let us know how you did below and have a great weekend.
I love teaching and photography... In that order. I feel that enjoying photography, and photo editing can get WAY too complicated. So my personal mission (and favorite thing to do), is to create education that simplifies the process of taking great photos, and how to edit them to get the results you’ve always wanted.
fun thanks
Got a 52 which is amazing since I hardly ever use photoshop! Thanks for the diversion/fun!
That was hard but fun! I need to pay better attention!
Not as well as I thought!!
Hi Matt
I now know how little I know about PS. I’m not disappointed or surprised I suppose it’s good to know these things. I use PS but obviously not at the depth these questions go to. I must need this new course, but will it still be too advanced for me?
Cheers 🙂
Would the course have provided all the knowledge to ace this quiz^
Nope. It was just for fun.
I failed measurably 🙂
That was really f*#&#&$(&)#’ing hard. I appear to know nothing about PS unless I’m actually in the app. Guess I need to get the new course…
Hi. It wasn’t meant to make you feel like you need a course. It was a hard quiz… and I may have gone overboard 🙂
Thanks for the Quiz Matt. Others need to learn that if you make the questions and you have answers when you make them, you are likely correct. Cheers and have a great day.
Since Lightroom has become so useful my Photoshop skills have obviously deteriorated, LOL This is really not a problem as I am not really into digital art or photo manipulation.
I kind of expected to be on the 30 percentile. Occasionally used Photoshop. Does more of my processing with LR. Your how to course should help expend my knowledge on PS. Thanks for the quiz!
Thank Matt, that was fun! Not as good at the details as I thought. Keep them coming.
To say that I sucked at the quiz would be a vast understatement! It’s obvious that I need to start concentrating on my Photoshop class that I bought from you forever ago.
I’m surprised that I got 6 of the questions correct. I primarily rely on LR for my processing.
Thanks for this – good fun. I only got 42% and yes did learn quite a lot, though a lot of it was me not really noticing what I was doing when in Photoshop.
Hi Matt,
Great fun it shows me how much I need to take your “Photoshop how To” course. I recommend it to everyone.
Michael
The question about the tone curve with red should have been written better. I saw that and said to add red when moving the curve, but the answer was cyan if you move it down. You could have added “if you move the curve down, what are you adding”.
Fun quiz, got my brain matter working.
The image along with the question shows the Curve being moved down. If you look at the Curve (the question stated “a curve that looks like this”), the only color that can be added with a curve that looks like the image is Cyan.
Matt, if the curve adjustment layer is showing RED at the top (as being the colour in the curves to change), the opposite will be BLUE… NOT CYAN. If is showing RED means that the document/image is being worked in a RGB colour mode and in this mode, the opposite of red is blue. If the document/image was setup in CMYK, instead of RED at the top you will have MAGENTA, in which case the opossite colour to magenta will be GREEN, not Cyan.
Hope you agree! 😉
Hi. This is incorrect. Cyan is the opposite of Red on the color wheel, regardless of color space being RGB or CMYK. Magenta is the opposite of Green. And Blue is the opposite of Yellow, not Red. Thanks!
Matt, you are a master but I have to respectfully disagree here. If you convert a layer to a Smart Object then you have a Smart Object standing on its own. At this point, it does no filtering. If you apply a filter to it you have Smart Filters and they are listed under the object. You can delete the Smart Filter without deleting the Smart Object. How can they be the same thing? If they were the same then wouldn’t they both be deleted? I think the phrase “same thing” is causing the disagreement.
Thanks for all you do. By the way, I scored 82… far from perfect.
Hi. I respectfully disagree with your disagreement 🙂 A smart object layer and a smart filter layer are identical. It doesn’t matter how, when, where, or why you add a filter to it. They are the same exact thing. You can put as many “what if’s” as you want and it won’t change that.
Jim, I agree with you. Smart Filters are applied to Smart Objects, which are layers that preserve the original image data.
However, you can still have a smart object layer and make adjustments and modifications without necessary applying a filter.
You can do this by opening the smart object layer (double clicking on the smart object layer) and it will open a >>.psb document<< where you can add type or make other adjustments without necessary using filters.
So I would say they are indeed two different features.
Good game
Ouch. 42%!
But I don’t really care. I don’t need to know the info in the ones I missed. I can easily find it if I do need it. No need to further clutter my already cluttered brain. lol
It was fun!!
76 for me– I’m good with that for now!
I bought the Ps and Lr guides last year – BUT haven’t watched yet … up until now I have still been working on my old iMac on the Mojave OS.. with my purchased versions of CS6!!! Never joined the subscription mode! ??♂️ recently bought a new MacBook Pro on the latest OS and it is FINALLY TIME to get acquainted with the new tools – been using Lr since the early days when first taught by Seth Resnick – so familiar with both Lr & Ps…. but could always be smarter and better… and I’m a professional photographer of some 40 years…. and been digital since 2003 but the tools look somewhat different from what I’ve known and been using even recently …Just about to join the Adobe subscription ranks! -& many more tools which are found in different places in the new interfaces in the new iterations – so time to teach this old dog some new tricks– class time with Matt- so I ordered the classes last year- time to add some more classes that go beyond he beginner level – though ti am really a beginner at the Adobe subscription mode … so summer school time for ME- think I will do the Lr classic mode – and I work on my 17″ screen- no iPad though I do have an iPhone .
94%, first question got me, I knew they were the same thing but budge at the end haha.
Fun quiz. Happy with 76! I must have already learned more than I thought from your courses… I always think ‘there is so much more to learn!’
Well, that was a bit of fun!
I havent used PS much so most answers wete a calculated guess.
I’d love to know what the average score is for all responses
And I thought I knew Photoshop ?♂️?
Loved taking it.
38 – Dang! I’m about 60% of the way through your Photoshop course. I hope to score better when I’ve finished it.
I’m too embarrassed to post my score. LOL!
I believe your answer to number one is incorrect. The smart filter is a filter on a smart object. Check the filter menu the option is to “convert for smart filters”.
Yes. A smart filter and smart object are identical. You may create them in different ways but they are identical.
Hi, Just wondering if your ps system course is still available. I have had a mini stroke and need the early stuff again, then I will buy the new how to course.
Thanks
Bob
Just took the quiz looks like i need to go back the coarse and pay more attention to the lessons!
I did learn new things from that quiz, it was fun.
82% but one of the incorrect answers I actually knew the answer but just hit the wrong one by mistake. I guess I should have taken it in my laptop instead of my phone.
70, I need to read questions completely!!
I was happy with my 54% since it was hard. I think I’m better in practice though. When I’m asked to show someone how to do something in PS, I have to learn what the right names are!
78.
Tough one.
60%
HAD TO CHEAT!!
Matt,
Keep ’em coming.
It helps cement what I know, and learn what I don’t!
42% first time (Really?)
100% second time (from memory! honest!)
Slight quibble on Question #1 – You can open an image from ACR as a Smart Object, then make changes such as Transform/Skew without applying a ‘filter’ that would normally be added below the layer. So perhaps not exactly the same…
Hi. A smart object layer and a Smart filter layer are identical. Not one difference. Your quibble doesn’t change it 🙂
58%, not too bad for a casual Photoshop user!
have never used Photoshop
Probably the wrong quiz for you then!
😉
70/100
64…..most were guesses though.
36. Dang…I need more courses and education. ???♂️
Fun idea Matt….and a bit humbling!
Yeah it’s turning out to be harder than I thought 🙂
That was fun and enlightening. I thought I knew more than I did. Isn’t that just the way! I hope you do more of these quizes.
Terry Connelly
What an awful way to start the day. Traveling on the small yellow Photoshop school bus. Then again many of the tools I never ever use.
We don’t need no education.
We don’t need no thought control.
I did not do well. I answered correctly the items that I use regularly and failed miserably on the ones that I have never used or seldom used. I guessed and I guessed wrong. It’s always good to know what you do not know.