Making Blend Backgrounds | Contest Winners

By RC Concepcion in Layers Blog
Friday February 6, 2009

Hey everyone! Wanted to share with you a quick tutorial, as well as the winners of this week’s contesnts.

Blend Backgrounds in Photoshop and Illustrator
Matt Kloskowski has got a cool tutorial on how to make cool backgrounds using both Illustrator and Photoshop. The backgrounds have that Windows Vista-esque look to them, so its definitely worth checking it out. Click on the link below to get to the tutorial:

Matt Kloskowski – Blend Tool Backgrounds

Contest Winners
I’d also like to thank Gerry (Sorry Gerry, just have your first name) for winning this week’s Layers TV contest as well as Kim Schneider for winning the Layers blog contest. Congratulations to the two of you!

Keeping it short this week as im out in CA. Back on Monday with some more cool stuff! Have a great weekend everyone

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Author: 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.