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Adobe Certified Professional · Specialty Credential

Brands need content daily. Prove you're the one who can ship it.

Anyone can open a template. Few can turn out on-brand content every day, and fewer can prove it. The Adobe Certified Professional in Marketing Design is earned by pairing Adobe Express with Photoshop or Acrobat Pro. Two exams, three credentials, and SkillUp Pro membership with your bundle. Built for marketers, social media managers and founders who live in the content calendar.

Choose your pairing →Training included · Retakes included · $289 per bundle · Just Express first? Start from $75 →
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Express + 1Photoshop or Acrobat Pro
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The credential clients and recruiters can verify in one click.

The Marketing Design specialty is issued by Adobe, delivered by Certiport, and verifiable through Credly. It's proof you can create on-brand marketing content across channels — not a portfolio you have to defend, but a credential anyone can check.

Share it on LinkedIn, add it to your CV and your portfolio, and let any client or employer verify it in seconds. Each Adobe certification is current for three years from the date you pass.

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The math nobody else explains

Two exams in. Three credentials out.

Sit the Express exam and one partner exam. Both certifications are issued — then Adobe adds the Marketing Design specialty automatically on top.

01
Adobe Certified Professional — Express
The required anchor: Content Creation and Marketing Using Adobe Express.
02
Photoshop or Acrobat Pro
Your second certification. Pick the one that matches the work you already do.
03
Marketing Design specialty
Awarded automatically once both certifications are on your record.
Why certification first

Five problems graduates face, and how proof of skill fixes them.

A portfolio shows what you made. A certification proves you can do it again, on any brief, for any brand.

A job seeker reviews a digital creative credential on a laptop while looking for work
01 · Unemployment

“Creative” isn’t a job title

Every applicant says they know Photoshop. Few can prove it.

The fix: Adobe credentials a client or employer can verify.

A new intern works on a real design brief at a creative studio
02 · Internships

Interns kept off real briefs

Studios won’t hand client work to an untested trainee.

The fix: proof you can deliver to a professional standard.

A small-business owner creates branding and marketing materials for their business
03 · Entrepreneurship

No budget for an agency

Small businesses need someone in-house who can make on-brand content every week.

The fix: certified content creation with Express plus Photoshop or Acrobat Pro.

A creative professional works through a complete digital design project on a computer
04 · Deeper understanding

Templates, not strategy

Anyone can drag a template. Few understand brand, audience and accessibility.

The fix: exam objectives covering design principles and digital marketing.

A creative professional uses a laptop as visual connections link their work to opportunities around the world
05 · Global reach

Local talent, invisible abroad

Remote clients need a standard they recognize.

The fix: Adobe and Certiport credentials verifiable anywhere.

Specialty credential · Choose your second cert

Same credential. Your toolset.

Adobe Express is required. Pair it with Photoshop or Acrobat Pro, whichever fits your workflow. Each stack is one bundle, two exams, three credentials — $289 USD.

Marketing
Design
Adobe Certified Professional in Marketing Design digital badge
Marketing Design
Express + Photoshop
Adobe Express + Adobe Photoshop
Fast on-brand content plus image craft: the marketing design stack.
$289USD
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Marketing
Design
Adobe Certified Professional in Marketing Design digital badge
Marketing Design
Express + Acrobat Pro
Adobe Express + Adobe Acrobat Pro
On-brand content plus document mastery, for campaign-ready output.
$289USD
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What's inside every $289 stack

Two certifications, fully equipped, so you walk in ready and walk out certified.

✓ Two official Adobe exam vouchers (Express + your chosen app)
✓ A retake on both exams, included
✓ CertPrep practice tests for both certifications
✓ LearnKey training access for both certifications, included
✓ Marketing Design specialty auto-issued on completion
✓ SkillUp Pro membership unlocked, with no annual fee
Pay your way: Visa and Mastercard, Paynow (EcoCash, OneMoney, Telecash, InnBucks, O’mari, ZimSwitch, POS2U and Paynow cash collection), bank transfer, or cash at our office. All prices in USD. A 3-installment plan is available on WhatsApp.
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Included · SkillUp Pro membership

Buy the bundle, and you’re a SkillUp Pro member at no extra cost.

Every Marketing Design bundle is a pathway bundle, and pathway bundles unlock SkillUp Pro automatically. There’s no annual fee. Once you’re a member, each additional single certification you buy that year is 25% off.

No fee

No annual fee and nothing extra to pay. Membership comes with your bundle.

25% off single certifications

A quarter off every additional single certification you buy within your membership year.

How it unlocks

Any pathway bundle, self-paced or guided, or any Mastery Challenge. Single certifications on their own don’t unlock it.

The 25% discount applies to additional single certifications only. It doesn’t discount bundles or Mastery Challenges, and it doesn’t stack with other offers.

Where you can certify

Available in 10 countries.

Sit your exams at a Certiport Authorized Testing Center, or online if there’s no center near you.

BotswanaEswatiniLesothoMadagascarMalawiMauritiusNamibiaSeychellesZambiaZimbabwe
Option 1 · Default

At a testing center

Sit your exams at a Certiport Authorized Testing Center near you, with the workstation and connection provided.

Option 2 · Where there’s no testing center nearby

Live online exam

Available only where there’s no Certiport Authorized Testing Center nearby. Exams are live-proctored through Certiport Compass Cloud, and you need a full workstation with a webcam and a fast, stable connection. You earn the same certificate and badge.

Please note: online candidates are liable for any interruptions on their side, including network, power and device issues.

Stop making great content in private. Get certified in public.

Two exams. Three credentials. Proof that you can ship on-brand content, every day.

Choose your pairing →

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EPCON · Certify. Build. Pitch.

Your certifications are your way into EPCON 2027.

EPCON is Zimbabwe’s National Student Technology Skills Championship. Certification is the first stage: get certified, build a capstone project, then pitch it. Registrations open 1 November 2026, and the national finals take place on 3–4 December 2027.

Adobe Certified Professional trackChoose Express plus Photoshop and your Photoshop certification qualifies you (one category per student). The top 3 qualify for the 2028 Adobe Certified Professional World Championship.
16 tracks to choose fromFrom design and AI to cybersecurity and entrepreneurship. See which of your certifications qualify on the EPCON site.

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