About RC Concepcion

Rafael Concepcion (RC) is an education and curriculum developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals, and the co-host of Layers TV - The How To Podcast For Everything Adobe. An Adobe Certified Instructor in Photoshop, Illustrator, and Lightroom, RC has over 10 years in the I.T. and ecommerce industries and spends his days developing content for all applications in the Adobe Creative Suite. RC has held training seminars in the U.S., Europe, and Latin America, and recently combined his photographic and web experience to teach with famed wildlife photographer Moose Peterson at the "You Can Do It Too" workshops in Mammoth, CA and at the Voices That Matter Web Conference in San Francisco, CA. RC also writes columns for Layers and Photoshop User magazines.

(click on the image to see a larger copy on Flickr) Traveling To Kansas City – The Biodegradable Tripod I traveled on Wednesday from St. Louis to Kansas City for the next stop of the CS4 Unleashed tour i’m doing today. As I was in the car, one of my co-workers said “I know you [...]

Learn how to create a stealth video using the FLV playback component. Click here to download the files to follow along with this tutorial.

I’m a big fan of checking out good plugins that are out there for being able to show your information on the web. Digicrafts is one place that I always keep on a short list based on a good track record i’ve had with their components. Thankfully I got an email not too long ago [...]

Check out the latest on Proofing in Acrobat with Taz Tally: Last issue, we covered composite content proofs and color-separated proofs. This issue we’re going to cover soft proofing and color-simulation print proofs. Soft proofing simulates onscreen how your final print will appear, and color-simulation print proofs simulate the appearance of the final print, such [...]

Tom Green covers the basics of using bitmap and vector masks in Fireworks. Click here to download the files to follow along with this tutorial.

Hey everyone. I am en route to teach my CS4 Unleased Tour in St. Louis, MO on Wednesday after hanging out for a couple of days over at PPE in New York (Scott has got a great review of his experience on his blog). Before I go, there are a couple of things I wanted [...]

Before Corey Corey goes into how to use Illustrator for cool border effects, I want to congratulate Ashley Bailey for winning this week’s blog. Way to go!

There are always cool ways to alter whichever transitions you are working with in Premiere Pro CS4.

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