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.

In this tutorial Christy Winter, Associate Designer for Layers Magazine, creates a Business Card in InDesign and shows how using Layers, Libraries and Object Styles can save you time. Download the files and follow along!

Before I take you to a quick video of the Lightroom 2 features, I wanted to mention a couple of seminars that should be of interest of you. One is happening this morning!!!: Staying Ahead of the Digital Curve: U.S. Interactive Marketing Forecast, 2009, by Forrester Discover your shortcut to brilliant with Adobe® Creative Suite® [...]

Do You Think You Can Teach Photoshop? The National Association of Photoshop Professionals is running a contest called ‘So You Think You Can Teach Photoshop” from now until October 31, 2009. The premise is pretty simple: You sign in and submit a video tutorial to NAPP showing you teaching something in Photoshop. (You can submit [...]

Before we share Tom Green’s new video on Reflections of Flash CS4 I want to congratulate Scott o’Neal for winning the Layers Blog Contest. Way to go! Tom Green Goes Flashy on Video Learn how to create a reflection of your video clip in Flash CS4. Tom Green has made the files for this tutorial [...]

Lightroom Retouching Tools

RC talks about retouching photos using some of Lightroom’s features.

Hey guys.. Sean Duggan has got a cool tutorial on working with your images and the catalog in Lightroom 2 thats worth checking out: “I recently returned from a trip to Hawaii with lots of new photos. In this article, I’ll cover how to integrate the images and Lightroom catalog information from a trip or [...]

Nikon has just announced two new products, including the new D3S digital SLR camera. This is a professional level camera that’s ideal for sports, photojournalism, nature and many other types of photography. Highlights of the D3S include: · Base ISO Range from 200 to 12,800, expandable from 100 to a staggering 102,400! · 9 frames [...]

my shot of the Capitol building in Austin, Texas I was excited to head out to Austin for two reasons initially: I would get a chance to hang out at the site of the Stevie Ray Vaughan statue (personal music fave) and because I was teaching the Creative Suite Unleashed tour there. I had never [...]

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