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2 days
Adobe Photoshop Advanced Course
Adobe Photoshop Advanced at a glance.
- Duration
- 2 days, 9:00am – 4:00pm
- Price
- $990 per person, ex GST — purchase orders welcome
- Delivery
- In person, or live online with a facilitator
- Where
- Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney — or online
- Prerequisite
- Photoshop Essentials
- Class size
- Small — everyone practises out loud more than once
- You take away
- A printed workbook, exercise files, and your own notes
- In-house
- Available for teams of four or more, at your office or ours
What you'll learn.
- Compositing and blending modes
- Smart objects and smart filters
- Advanced masking, including hair and soft edges
- Actions and batch processing
Course overview.
Compositing, smart objects, advanced masking, actions and batch processing.
The 2 days works through 14 modules and 75 individual topics, from Tool refresher and the Options bar to Animation. Each module is taught then practised — you do the thing rather than watch it done — on our exercise files, and on your own where you are able to bring them.
Groups are kept small enough that everyone gets hands on the keyboard, and the facilitator is in the room the whole time rather than dropping in. You leave with the workbook, the exercise files and notes in your own words.
Full course outline.
Every module we cover, and the topics inside each one. This is the same outline as the downloadable PDF — expand a module to see what sits under it.
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1Tool refresher and the Options bar3 topics
- A refresher on common tools and shortcuts
- Selections with the Quick Selection tool and Refine Edge
- Ruler and measurement tools
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2Building a product mockup5 topics
- Getting the image ready
- Gradient fill layers
- Painting a shadow and matching the lighting
- Placing the logo and transforming it
- Keeping the mockup believable
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3Retouching6 topics
- Taking out blemishes
- Correcting red eye
- Softening wrinkles and smoothing skin
- Brightening teeth and eyes
- Shifting skin tone
- Evening out skin tone and texture
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4Sharpen and blur4 topics
- Smart Sharpen compared with Unsharp Mask
- Applying Lens Blur and Motion Blur
- Inside the Blur Gallery
- Settings in the Smart Sharpen filter
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5Layers in depth14 topics
- A recap of layer blending modes
- Why adjustment layers help in imaging
- Tonal correction with adjustment layers
- Black and white contrast with adjustment layers
- Curves as an adjustment layer
- Applying Smart Filters
- How linked Smart Objects behave
- Embedded Smart Objects and when to use them
- Switching filters on and reordering them
- Filters and effects together
- A tour of the filters
- Handling more complex filters
- Sharpen filters used for edge detection
- Improvements to guides
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6Layer masks3 topics
- What layer masks are for
- Creating and editing a mask layer
- Gradient and vector masks
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7Styles and effects on layers6 topics
- Applying layer effects
- Adding shadows and glows
- Building patterns and overlays
- Bevel and emboss settings
- Saving a style and using preset styles
- Stacking several effects in Photoshop
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8Automating with actions3 topics
- Loading, saving and editing actions
- Running actions automatically
- Improvements to Photomerge
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9Faster workflow3 topics
- Shortcuts that save time
- Saving and loading styles, presets and brushes
- Setting up tool presets
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10Camera Raw7 topics
- Why shoot Raw
- Tone curve adjustments
- HSL: hue, saturation and luminance
- Greyscale conversions
- Sharpening a Raw file
- Camera Raw used as a filter
- Correcting lens faults
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11Channels7 topics
- Storing colour and selections in channels
- Saving a selection to a channel and loading it back
- Making selections from channels
- Complex selections built with calculations
- Combining several selection techniques
- What alpha channels hold
- Colour channels versus greyscale channels
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12Colour management8 topics
- How a colour-managed workflow runs
- Calibrating and profiling a monitor
- Profiling a digital printer
- Keeping colour consistent
- Soft proofing with profiles
- Making and applying profiles
- Synchronising colour settings in Bridge
- Profiles used by Australian printers
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13Bridge and Photoshop together4 topics
- What this adds to your workflow
- Batch processing a folder of files
- Adding and editing metadata
- Building and using collections
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14Animation2 topics
- The Timeline panel
- Building an animated GIF step by step
Who it is for.
Confident users who now maintain something other people depend on — and want to stop it breaking.
How it runs.
Two consecutive days, each roughly 9am to 4pm, with a facilitator in the room the whole time. You get a workstation each with the software installed, in a CBD training room in any of the six capitals, or live online on your own computer.
Dates
Upcoming Dates
The next scheduled Adobe Photoshop Advanced dates, soonest first. If none of these work, tell us the city and we will let you know when the next block is released.
| Level | Date | Location | Delivery | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Photoshop Advanced | Wed - Thu 2 Sep - 3 Sep 26 | Remote East | Online | $990 | Book |
| Photoshop Advanced | Wed - Thu 2 Sep - 3 Sep 26 | Brisbane | In person | $990 | Book |
| Photoshop Advanced | Thu - Fri 10 Sep - 11 Sep 26 | Remote East | Online | $990 | Book |
| Photoshop Advanced | Thu - Fri 10 Sep - 11 Sep 26 | Melbourne | In person | $990 | Book |
| Photoshop Advanced | Wed - Thu 30 Sep - 1 Oct 26 | Remote East | Online | $990 | Book |
| Photoshop Advanced | Wed - Thu 30 Sep - 1 Oct 26 | Sydney | In person | $990 | Book |
| Photoshop Advanced | Tue - Wed 17 Nov - 18 Nov 26 | Remote East | Online | $990 | Book |
| Photoshop Advanced | Tue - Wed 17 Nov - 18 Nov 26 | Brisbane | In person | $990 | Book |
| Photoshop Advanced | Mon - Tue 23 Nov - 24 Nov 26 | Remote East | Online | $990 | Book |
| Photoshop Advanced | Mon - Tue 23 Nov - 24 Nov 26 | Sydney | In person | $990 | Book |
By city
Adobe Photoshop Advanced in your city
Venue, transport and the dates running there.
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Reviews
What people said about Adobe Photoshop Advanced
Wizard courses run on the shared Nexacu schedule, so these are reviews of this course from people who sat it. Collected by Nexacu after the course and published as written.
Awesome course, I learnt a lot. The pace was great and everything was explained really well so I could understand. Would love to do the illustrator course next 🙂
Louise
11 October 2024
Friendly and engaging. Massive depth of knowledge! I feel like the course should be a day or two longer to really take advantage of Davids expertise. Will be encouraging our designers to attend.
Miriam
11 October 2024
David has been absolutely brilliant. An absolute pleasure to work through the course with.
Connor
29 January 2025
Very knowledgable in Adobe products and processes. Gives me the confidence to use Photoshop for my specific needs. Thanks for the training.
Liam C.
29 January 2025
Fantastic and really engaging trainer - shared highly relevant and up to date information. It was a brilliant way to enhance my existing skills with creative tools that often play a role in marketing and content development. Thanks so much David!
Alison
24 July 2025
I found that the content was the most valuable. The trainer engaged with me on my skill level, what I know and don't know about Photoshop, and based the lessons around what I needed/wanted to know. This made the class more interesting and enjoyable.
Caitlin
31 March 2026
Source: nexacu.com.au, read 27 August 2026. How feedback is collected.
Questions
Questions People Ask About This Course
Anything not answered here, call 1300 886 190 and ask a person.
How long is the Adobe Photoshop Advanced course?
It runs for 2 days, 9:00am – 4:00pm, with a facilitator in the room the whole time. Nothing is pre-recorded and there is no platform to log into afterwards.
How much does Adobe Photoshop Advanced cost?
$990 per person, excluding GST. That covers the course, the workbook and exercise files and the room. If four or more people from one organisation need it, an in-house day usually works out cheaper — tell us the numbers and we will price both.
Do I need any experience before this course?
Yes — this level assumes Photoshop Essentials, or equivalent experience picked up on the job. If you are not sure, tell us what you already do and we will place you honestly, including telling you to book the level below.
Can I do Adobe Photoshop Advanced online instead of in a classroom?
Yes. Every date marked “Live online” runs over video with the same facilitator and the same practice, in breakout groups rather than a room. You use the software on your own machine, so you leave with it set up the way you actually work.
Which cities do you run Adobe Photoshop Advanced in?
Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney, plus live online. Every venue is a CBD training room with a workstation for each person. If your city and date are not paired on the schedule above, ask — dates are released in blocks.
Which Photoshop level should I book?
Work from what people already do rather than how long they have used it. The full course outline above shows exactly what this course covers, and the Adobe Photoshop page lists every level in order. Still unsure? Call 1300 886 190 and describe a normal Tuesday.
Whole team on the same level? Run it in-house.
Your files, your templates, your workflow — the same course, taught against your own material.