Adobe Basics
Which Adobe application is primarily used for editing and manipulating photos?
Photoshop
What Adobe product is designed for quick creation using templates and easy-to-use tools?
Adobe Express
Which artist released “Thriller,” one of the most iconic music videos in history and a staple of Halloween playlists?
Michael Jackson
You need to remove someone's ex from a vacation photo. What tool?
Photoshop
A marketing student needs to quickly make an Instagram graphic using a template. What Adobe product would be a great choice?
Adobe Express
Which Adobe application is primarily used for editing video?
Premiere Pro
Definition: A collection of creative applications built for people who want more control, depth, and customization.
Adobe Creative Cloud
Released in 1978, this John Carpenter horror film introduced audiences to the masked killer Michael Myers.
Halloween
You're designing a logo for CMA. What tool?
Illustrator
You're creating a detailed UX project and need custom graphics, interface assets, and presentations. Which Adobe category would be most relevant? (hint: it's one or the other)
Creative Cloud
Which Adobe application is best known for graphics, branding, logos, and illustrations?
Illustrator
What term describes the process of creating visual elements such as logos, app icons, colors, and other graphics that represent a brand?
Branding
In what year did Georgia Tech introduce the Bachelor of Science in Computational Media?
2004
You're editing a 10-minute documentary. What tool?
Premiere Pro
A student uses After Effects to add motion graphics and Photoshop to create visual assets for a short film. What area of creative media are they working in?
Visual Design & Storytelling
What is branding best used for?
Portfolios
A digital art technique where artists merge, blend, and paint over multiple photographs, textures, and 3D assets to create a single, cohesive image
Photo-bashing
Georgia Tech's newest bachelor's degree combines artistic practice, emerging technology, and entrepreneurship. Students can take courses in creative coding, storytelling, visual arts and design, sound, and even worldbuilding. What is this new major called?
Arts, Entertainment, and Creative Technologies — AECT
You want to animate the CMA logo flying onto the screen with effects. What tool?
After Effects
A student uses Adobe Illustrator to create custom graphics, Photoshop to edit visual assets, and other design tools to build an app interface and prototype. What field best connects these activities?
UI/UX or interaction design.
Name two Adobe applications that could realistically be used together to create a short promotional video.
Premiere Pro & After Effects
What term describes the process of organizing and formatting multi-page documents by placing and manipulating text and images, often using Adobe InDesign?
Documentation / Document Layout
The Halloween franchise has been rebooted and reworked multiple times. As of 2026, how many feature films are in the franchise?
13
You're creating a magazine with 30 pages of text, images, and layouts. What tool?
InDesign
An architecture student needs to create a polished portfolio containing diagrams, images, and multiple pages. Which Adobe application would be especially useful for assembling the final document?
InDesign