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Meet “RC”: The New Photoshop Guru In Town!

By Scott on Thursday, May 24th, 2007 at 8:20 am | updates.

I’m excited to introduce you to the “new kid in town,” and the latest addition to NAPP’s in-house team of Photoshop gurus, Rafael Concepcion (he prefers to go by just “RC”).

We first met RC a couple of years ago at Photoshop World Miami during a preconference workshop based on the TV Show “So you think you can dance?” called “So you think you can teach Photoshop?” This pre-con was designed for Photoshop instructors, and besides teaching NAPP criteria for becoming a Photoshop World instructor, each student would give a 10-minute presentation in front of the class and each session would be critiqued by the instructors (Matt, Dave, and myself). Then, at the end of the day the class would choose the best instructor, and that instructor would then get to teach a 30-minute session in the NAPP theater on the Expo floor.

Well, RC won the competition in a unanimous vote, but it was his live Expo floor session that caught our attention. He was doing such a great job, that the moderator for that class was grabbing staffers off the floor to come and see this guy in action—he was that good! Since then we’ve been talking on and off to RC and when it was time to add another Photoshop expert to our team, his abilities, and his personality, were a perfect fit for our team and we’re just tickled to have him on board.

He was based in Long Island, New York and he’s in process of relocating to our Tampa, Florida home base (apparently this is a natural move for New Yorkers and didn’t phase him in the least), and we hope you’ll help welcome RC into our NAPP family (feel free to leave him any comments here on the blog). Also, we introduce RC on this week’s show, and on next week’s episode he’s showing a cool trick using Photoshop CS3 Extended.

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^#1

I am so happy that RC is now part of NAPP and I can’t wait to sit right in the front row when he teaches. Congratulations and good luck!

Stacy from NY on May 24th, 2007 at 9:42 am

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Good luck in the your new position RC. Although the chances of ever getting to meet your personally are even less than me running into an Alien in a Candy store - you being in Tampa and me in Germany, I look forward to seeing you on NAPP TV . On second thoughts however, the Alien thing might be a poor comparison - whose that guy sitting in the middle wearing the glasses

Alan Ingham on May 24th, 2007 at 10:23 am

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Congrats, RC… You’ll have a blast working with Kelby & crew. Tampa is a beautiful area, too.

Good luck on the packing and be sure to remember where you packed the TV remote!

Danny Raphael on May 24th, 2007 at 10:51 am

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Congrats RC!!!! Look forward to seeing you on PhotoshopTV. Good luck on your move to the sixth borough.

vincent versace on May 24th, 2007 at 11:33 am

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Welcome RC, you have joined a great group at NAPP. I look forward to learning from you as well. No pressure of course

Kelvin on May 24th, 2007 at 12:26 pm

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In response to the article regaurding “RC”, It was nice to see him get the recognition he deserves in a 15 minute teaching at the Miami confrence.

I was a student of RC’s for 3 years at New Horizons and was able to grasp
the graphic software quickly and easily due to his explanations and interaction with the class. RC has an ability to see who was absorbing the information and how to relate to the students on a whole. RC would cover the class in a timely fashion and all aspects were covered during his sessions. His creativity was present and made the class a fun learning enviroment.

Good luck RC and welcome to Florida the cheerio state! ô¿ô
Lori-Ann
LAJones Designs

Lori-Ann Jones on May 24th, 2007 at 2:10 pm

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Congrats to RC on your move to Tampa. its no surprise he wowed everyone at NAPP. he has been doing it for years. good luck man

Big Vic on May 24th, 2007 at 2:13 pm

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RC has been amazing us here on Long Island with all his computer skills for years. When our company was looking for a demo for our software, only one name came to mind - RC! Wishing you much success on your new adventure, to include your upcoming nuptials!

Ric Schabe on May 24th, 2007 at 2:32 pm

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I met RC at the Midnight Madness Boston in April. He kept us entertained while we waited anxiously to go in. Congrats RC!

Terry on May 24th, 2007 at 2:33 pm

^#10

Welcome! Bienvenido! all the best and hope to learn tons from you!

Carlo Martinez on May 25th, 2007 at 2:13 am

^#11

Hey bro , good luck and much success.

Jesus Concepcion on May 27th, 2007 at 12:48 pm

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RC

Enjoyed very much your tutorial on animating file sequence. I have experimented with it for a couple of days and I have noted however, that files processed into DNG (adobe’s standard for raw) the image sequence option is not available. What gives? My CR2 work OK.

Apears to be reading timestamp to sequence photos and will gap them if not in proper format.

Keep the tips coming they are great.

R Lutz
Miami

Rollin Lutz on May 31st, 2007 at 6:33 pm