Philippine Center for Creative Imaging (PCCI)

22/11/2016

Strobist Photography: Creative Techniques with Portable Flash (hands-on workshop) by Richel Mascariñas
November 25, 2016 (9:00 am to 5:00 pm)

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Fee: P2,950.
- Less P450 for PCCI alumni
- Less P250 for new students

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Itching to shoot better portraits? Better still life and product shots? But can't afford studio flash? Well, itch no more--we'll show you how to produce professional studio photos with affordable, portable, camera flash. Even the pros resort to camera flash in the field or indoors, some all the time and not just occasionally.

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Register now! or call 759-3087 or 892-5281.

07/11/2016

P950 only!!!

Designing Effective Marketing & Corporate Collaterals (lecture-demo sessions)
December 17, 2016 (Saturday)
(9:30 AM to 4:30 PM)

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Do your flyers and posters look like they were done in MS Word or Powerpoint?

Does your product and corporate brand look like some fun font effects anyone can do?

Are you doing design work you never trained for?

Supervising a communication or graphics department or service provider?

Starting out as a graphic designer?

Get some design sense drummed into your head by two experienced graphic designers--in just one day!

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What will be covered

How to design effective:
- Logos
- Business Cards
- Letterheads
- Posters
- Banners
- Product Branding
- Flyers
- Brochures
- Product Packaging and Labels

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Who can benefit

Although it's an advantage, but no knowledge of design software necessary to understand the design approaches and solutions demonstrated by the lecturers.

- Graphic designer hopefuls who are embarking on a second career
- Office staff who are doing double duty as graphic artists
- Current graphic designers and artists who want to put more oomph into their work
- Students and fresh grads of art schools who want to absorb more than the theories and "rules" taught in school
- Managers and department heads of communication or graphics.

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The Lecturers

Tony Bucu and Stanley Coloma are professional graphic designers who have produced work for leading companies in the Philippines. The advice they dispense is based on years of experience. Having worked on some difficult and urgent projects, they have learned to think on their feet, a creative agility not available in artists who depend on graphics software for originality.

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Seminar Fee

One-day seminars (lecture-demo session) for only P950 inclusive of lunch and snacks + certificate of attendance.

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Venue

Philippine Center for Creative Imaging (PCCI), 2247 Don Chino Roces Avenue, Makati City

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Inquiry & registration
If you're interested, phone us at (2) 759-3087 / (2) 892-5281 / (2) 514-4261, or email us at [email protected].
You can also visit our website:

05/10/2016

P950 only!!!

Kick-Start Your Graphic Design!

Designing Effective Marketing & Corporate Collaterals (lecture-demo sessions)
October 21, 2016 (9:30 AM to 4:30 PM)

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Do your flyers and posters look like they were done in MS Word or Powerpoint?

Does your product and corporate brand look like some fun font effects anyone can do?

Are you doing design work you never trained for?

Supervising a communication or graphics department or service provider?

Starting out as a graphic designer?

Get some design sense drummed into your head by two experienced graphic designers--in just one day! No knowledge of Adobe or Corel software necessary to understand the design approaches and solutions demonstrated by the lecturers.

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What will be covered

How to design effective:
- Logos
- Business Cards
- Letterheads
- Posters
- Banners
- Product Branding
- Flyers
- Brochures
- Product Packaging and Labels

***
Who can benefit

- Graphic designer hopefuls who are embarking on a second career
- Office staff who are doing double duty as graphic artists
- Current graphic designers and artists who want to put more oomph into their work
- Students and fresh grads of art schools who want to absorb more than the theories and "rules" taught in school
- Managers and department heads of communication or graphics.

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The Lecturers

Tony Bucu and Stanley Coloma are professional graphic designers who have produced work for leading companies in the Philippines. The advice they dispense is based on years of experience. Having worked on some difficult and urgent projects, they have learned to think on their feet, a creative agility not available in artists who depend on graphics software for originality.

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Seminar Fee

One-day seminars (lecture-demo session) for only P950 inclusive of lunch and snacks + certificate of attendance.

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Venue

Philippine Center for Creative Imaging (PCCI), 2247 Don Chino Roces Avenue, Makati City

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Registration and inquiries. Please visit

31/08/2016

Register before 3:30 pm and get a very generous discount + FREE T-shirt!

PM us for details

A career in Corporate and Industrial Photography can be very exciting. Top Philippines corporations need photographs of their executives, operations and facilities for brochures, annual reports, calendars, promo and advertising, etc. So the demand for corporate and industrial photographers is great.

25/08/2016

PCCI Budget Seminars of the Month
September 10, 2016 (Saturday)

Mobile Design Fest!
with Stanley Coloma

Topics:

9:30 - 11:30 am - EFFECTIVE LOGO DESIGN USING ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR
- Learn the techniques and time-tested practices in creating an effective logo for any project including mobile.

12:30 - 2:30 pm - INTERACTIVE WEB ANIMATION USING ADOBE ANIMATE CC
- Create engaging animations compatible for the web and mobile devices.

3:00 - 5:00 pm - CREATE RESPONSIVE DESIGN USING ADOBE MUSE
- Create response website for mobile devices without writing a single line of code.

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Seminars Fee:
₱350 per topic. Includes snacks and certificate of attendance.
₱600 for 2 topics. Includes lunch, snacks and certificate of attendance.
₱850 for 3 topics. Includes lunch, snacks and certificate of attendance.

Venue: PCCI Studio, 2247 Don Chino Roces Avenue, Makati City.

Registrations and Inquiries:
Call 759-3087 or 892-5281, or email the following details to

Complete Name:
Company (if any):
Cellphone Number:
Landline number (if any):
Email address:

24/08/2016

The best-laid plans of brides and men unravel on W-Day, with no margin for error. Are you ready?

Register now in our intensive hands-on workshop,

The Wedding Day: No Reshoots, No Excuses
by Richel Mascariñas

September 8-9, 2016
9:00 am to 5:00 pm

What will be covered
- Basic and recommended equipment
- The importance of long and wide lenses
- Shooting with and without flash
- Building a shot list
- On-location reenactment with models, makeup artists, and actual gowns
- Church regulations and policies
- Non-Catholic weddings
- Planning for and covering the ceremony and reception
- Location and studio bridal portrait
- Shooting the wedding entourage
- Different traditions among different religious sects
- Production and post-production workflow, including backing up, weeding out, cleaning up
- Producing the album and enlargements

How to register:
Please call 759-3087 or 892-5281 or check this link

21/08/2016

Short Filmmaking (Or How to Make a Short Film in 3 Days)
by Nani Naguit

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The tools for digital filmmaking nowadays are very accessible. You can easily shoot something out of your DSLR cameras or even your cellphones, but to make its content visually and aurally engaging is a different story.

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But don’t worry, guys! In this workshop, filmmaker wannabes will know everything about short filmmaking and will learn different techniques to make these films worth watching.

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By the end of this workshop, participants should be able to produce, write, direct, shoot and edit a 3-5 minute short film.

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What will be covered

-The Aesthetics of Filmmaking: Screenplay, Directing, Acting, Cinematography, Production Design, Sound, Music and Editing
-Selected Short Films Breakdown (Both local and foreign): What makes them great and why they work
-The Big Pitch: The Script (How to put your ideas into paper)
-The Director’s Treatment and the Art of Storytelling: Setting the mood and tone for your short film
-The Storyboard
-Shooting Your Short Film
-Editing
-Viewing and Critiquing

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For complete course details and online registration, please call 759-3087 or 892-5281 or visit

15/08/2016

PCCI Budget Seminars of the Month
August 18, 2016 (Thursday)

Creating 3D Graphics and Editing Video with Photoshop CC
with Mario Ramirez ACE, ACI
9:00 to 12:00 noon

If you know Photoshop you don't need expensive and difficult 3D apps to create simple, quick-n-easy 3D graphics and animation.

Photoshop CC has 3D tools for graphic designers, including importing and compositing 3D assets, adjusting camera perspective, creating 3D scenes from photos, working with 3D layers, painting 3D objects.

Also included is a lecture-demonstration on animating 3D objects.

To understand and absorb the techniques and principles of 3D creating and animation using Photoshop CC, attendees must be familiar with the main functions of Photoshop.

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Need to edit video with music soundtrack fast, but don't know or don't have Adobe Premiere Pro? Photoshop CC to the rescue. If you already know the basics of Photoshop, editing polished video is just a few minutes' work.

Photoshop guru Mario Ramirez demonstrates the steps for importing and arranging video clips, trimming, cross-fading, and laying down background music.

The beauty of working in Photoshop is you can apply Photoshop effects such as colorizing and blurring to entire clips, not just to single frames.

Publication Graphic Design
with Ige Ramos
2:00 to 5:00 pm

Newsletters, magazines, and books present a different, more complex problem than single-page or single-face flyers, brochures, and ads.

In this lecture overview, award-winning magazine and book designer Ige Ramos discusses procedures and techniques that art directors, layout artists, writers, and editors can use to produce publications that communicate effectively and persuasively and not just look pretty.

With proper planning and understanding of the message and target readers, artists and editors can work hand-in-hand to make publications results-oriented.

Seminars Fee:
₱350 per topic. Includes snacks and certificate of attendance.
₱500 for 2 topics. Includes lunch, snacks and certificate of attendance.

Venue: PCCI Studio, 2247 Don Chino Roces Avenue, Makati City.

Registrations and Inquiries:
Call 759-3087 or 892-5281, or email the following details to

Complete Name:
Company (if any):
Cellphone Number:
Landline number (if any):
Email address:

23/05/2016

Use the flash you already own, for great "studio" photos

15/05/2016

Photoshop Without Limits (Seminar Series)
May 17-18, 2016

Register now!

25/04/2016

Register now

- Correct Portrait Retouching
- Special FX with Photoshop
- Video Editing with Photoshop
- 3D Modeling & Animation with Photoshop

06/04/2016

Photography for the Young at Art (Basic Photography for Kids)
April 13-16, 201

Why waste all that excess energy on TV, computer games, and movies? Your child can be more creative with photography!

Don't let summer vacation go to waste! Let your kids pick up a new skill they can use in their schoolwork and that can sharpen their creativity. Our new basic photography workshop for kids shows them how to make the most of a simple point-and-shoot camera, using exercises and examples that makes learning fun and fruitful. Ideal for ages 10 to 15.

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Potential benefits to your child
• Channels your child's excess energy into more productive activities.
• Teaches them a pro-active recreation in place of passive ones like computer games and television.
• Makes them more outgoing, sociable.
• Equips them with a skill that will be useful throughout their lives.
• Improves imagination and analytical thinking.
• Teaches them good, clean, fun!

What will be covered
• Getting familiar with the camera
• Using the preset, auto settings creatively
• Working with focus, sharpness, exposure, action, closeups, distant subjects
• Shooting people, activities, travel, nature, home, and school
• Understanding proper composition
• Using the built-in flash correctly and incorrectly
• Uploading photographs to a computer
• Discussion of participants' outtakes
• Includes photography "field trip" to nearby location

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Who can attend
Children between the ages of 10 and 15, who are able to understand simple instructions and explanations.

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What to bring
Each child brings his or her own camera, preferably a point-and-shoot with user-selectable functions. (The simplest point-and-shoot without optional settings will not let the participant appreciate the lessons and examples.) No previous experience or classes in photography necessary. Recommended ages 10 to 15.

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Venue:
Philippine Center for Creative Imaging (PCCI)
2247 Don Chino Roces Avenue (formerly Pasong Tamo),
Makati City, Philippines

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Course Fee:
₱5,300. Fee is inclusive of VAT. Includes materials and snacks, transportation to and from the location shoot and certificate of completion.

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Discount Options:
Register 2 kids and get 10% discount.
Register 3 kids and get 15% discount.

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Schedule: April 13-16, 2016
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Class Hours: (choose)
• Morning batch: 9:00am to 12:00pm
• Afternoon batch: 1:30pm to 4:30pm

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Inquiry and Registration
To register, please visit or call 759-3087 / 892-5281.

29/02/2016

FREE SEMINARS
March 15, 2016 (1:30 pm to 4:30 pm)
PCCI's Studio, located at 2247 Don Chino Roces Avenue, Makati City

Learn more about
- Adobe Muse CC
- Adobe Captivate 9
- Adobe Animate CC

See poster for complete details.

To register, please click this link

05/01/2016

NEW YEAR SPECIAL PRICE SLASH!

This offer is exclusive for January 2016 photography courses only.

- The Wedding Day: No Reshoots, No Excuses by Richel Mascariñas
- Feast for the Eyes: Professional Food Photography by Mark Floro
- Sports & Action Photography by Jijo De Guzman
- Minding Your Own Photography Business (seminar) by Mark Floro
- Street Photography by Rommel C. Bundalian
- Corporate Photography by Edwin C. Tuyay
- The Ins & Outs of Wedding Photography by Patrick L Uy
- The Art of N**e Photography by Menchit Ongpin / Ibarra Deri

ONE TIME OFFER ONLY! Limited slots available!

NOTE: Cannot be combined with other discount offers or vouchers.

To find out how to avail of this promo, please call 759-3087 / 892-5281 or email

PCCI course calendar

05/01/2016

-- For aspiring sports and action shooters, photojournalists and everyone else who want to learn how to shoot fast-moving subjects. Please click the link for more details.

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Sports and Action Photography by Jijo De Guzman
January 13-14, 2016
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You have to keep running to stay in the same place and run twice as fast to get somewhere else — sound advice from Lewis Carroll’s Red Queen for the sports photographer, who has to stay ahead of the game, faster than the fastest athlete. FAST — familiarity, anticipation, speed, timing are the essential skills in sports photography.

Familiarity with the layout and lighting of the sporting grounds or race track is essential, as is understanding the game and the players so you know where the best action will take place and how to prepare for it.

Like the news photographer, the sports photographer must be predictive rather than reactive, anticipating what could happen next. But unlike in news photography, the playing field is controlled chaos and the action scripted but spontaneous.

Who should attend

- News and magazine photographers who are covering, or want to cover, the sports beat
- Amateur photographers who want to enjoy the exciting world of sports photography
- Advertising photographers who want to add another area of specialization.

For complete course details and to register, please visit

15/12/2015

Become among the first Certified Usability Analysts (CUA) in the Philippines. For more details, visit

26/11/2015

Creating Election Campaign Materials

The campaign period will soon be upon us, and artists and suppliers will be scrambling to grab a share of the pie. Don't be left behind! Sharpen your Photoshop skills with tricks and techniques specifically adapted to creating election campaign materials.

19/10/2015

Wedding Photography: from prenup to postprod
October 29-30, 2015

Only P4,500 one fee for up to 6 attendees (time-sharing). Fee includes lunch, snacks, seminar kit, and certificate of attendance for each topic.

Register now!

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October 29, 2015
9:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m.
Prenup Photography That’s as Eye-tractive as Wedding Day Photography
by Richel Mascariñas
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Every bride today wants a prenup session. But how do you make your prenup photos as exciting and attractive as your wedding-day photos? How do you make each session different from the last? What are the latest styles and techniques for prenup photos? How do you prepare for a prenup?
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11:00–12:00 p.m. Lunch Break
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12:00–2:00 p.m.
How to be a Wedding Photographer’s Assistant
by Richel Mascariñas

Wanting to get into wedding photography? Or showing a trainee the ropes? This enlightening seminar gets not just your foot in the door but takes you ten steps forward.

Speaking from experience, Richel shows what you need to be an assistant wedding photographer, what shots are expected of you, what scenes and details to look out for, how to be the lead photographer's second eye, watching out for distractions and opportunities in his setups.
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2:00–2:15 p.m. Break
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2:15–4:00 p.m.
Operating and Marketing a Photobooth Business
by Richel Mascariñas

Invest in a photobooth that you can bring to a wedding reception. It makes receptions livelier, and is an added source of income for you, even for events other than weddings. The photobooth is also a good way to press an old DSLR back into service.
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4:00–6:00 p.m.
Post Production and Album Design
by Richel Mascariñas

Ask any wedding photographer and he'll tell you, the wedding album is the weakest link in the chain. Good album design is just one problem; the other problem is delivering before the first baby is born. Richel outlines the workflow that has made his post-production one of the fastest in the industry.

October 30, 2015
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9:00 a.m.–12:30 a.m.
Glamour Wedding Portraits (lecture/demo with model)
by Richel Mascariñas

The one day in her life a woman wants to look her glamorous best is her wedding day. On that day, she's a Hollywood star! An international cover model! Her makeup artist and hairdresser can only do so much—photography will do the rest. Your photos are going to be a passive/massive source of potential business, as the bride posts them all over social media.
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1:30–5:00 p.m.
Extraordinary Portraits of Ordinary People
(lecture/demo with model)
by Dail Deri

Brides are dolled up to look their best, but in the end they're still laymen, unprofessional models before the camera. Which puts the whole burden of lighting and posing the bride on the shoulders of the photographer. In this abridged seminar of her popular workshop, Dail shares professional techniques for turning Plain Jane into Bright-Eyed Bride.

12/10/2015

Wedding Photography: From Prenup to Postprod
October 29-30, 2015

Register here now! http://pcci.com.ph/slide/fm-slide-register.html