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.

Color Managed Workflow Class This Wednesday This is something that faces EVERY person using a computer and a printer. You setup everything in Photoshop, hit print, then all of a sudden the print comes NOWHERE NEAR what the final image looked like on the machine. Many pages can be wasted. A ton of ink can [...]

Hey everyone! Things are full speed ahead in getting ready to head out to Photoshop World March 24-26 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando! I’m pretty excited to be amongst some wonderful instructors to teach the latest and greatest in Photoshop and the web. One of the things that i’m -really- psyched for [...]

Hey everyone, Happy Monday! Today I am happy to hear that there are two really cool additions that I think you’d be very interested in. Topaz Adjust 4 Topaz Adjust is one of those products that sits on the computer of many a digital artist (myself included). it takes a regular picture and just makes [...]

I Left My Heart in San Francisco Hey everyone! Im finally back in the saddle from San Francisco and hanging out at the Photoshop 20th Birthday celebration! I had such a great time out there meeting the engineers of one of our favorite applications, as well as some of the luminaries using Photoshop today. All [...]

This Thursday February 18, Scott Kelby, Matt Kloskowski, Dave Cross, Corey and myself will be ringing in Photoshop’s 20th birthday with a great celebration at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. We’re all running full speed ahead of the bash, but I wanted to make sure to let you know that even if [...]

Hey everyone! With all of the outpouring of creativity over on the blog over the last couple of days, I figured it’d be a good idea if I just tipped my hand and actually showed how -I- was working with the HDR image that started the entire contest. The tutorial is listed at the link [...]

Deconstructing a One Shot HDR Image

RC breaks down the one-shot HDR image that has inspired the one-shot HDR contest featured on his blog

First of all, I want to thank all of you so much for jumping in on the HDR competition. There was such a cool turnout for everyone using 1 shot HDR, that it solidified three key things for me: 1. You guys are an amazingly creative lot (one of these entries actually had gargoyles in [...]

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