Envato 3rd Birthday Bash, Day 3 – Grab the Tuts+ Birthday Bundle!

21 Aug 2009

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After two days of lead-up festivities, today is Envato’s 3rd birthday! To say thank you for helping us grow up big, strong and healthy, we’re giving away a MASSIVE bundle of 25 Plus tutorials and source files as part of the Tuts+ Birthday Bundle. This bundle is completely free and available to everyone. But you had better get in quick, as the Tuts+ Birthday Bundle will only be available for the 24 hours of Envato’s 3rd Birthday!

Hit the jump to start unwrapping your gift.

Wordpress – Beginner to Master, Complete Series (1 – 6)

Throughout this six-part beginner-to-master series, we’ll be using the advanced features of WordPress to create our own portfolio & blog, complete with an options page, multiple styles and support for the new WordPress 2.7 features.

Code Igniter – Create a Jobs Board With Code Igniter

This tutorial series will not serve as a beginners guide to CodeIgniter, however you don’t need much experience with it either. I’d recommend you have an understanding of what an MVC (Model, View, Controller) system is and to have had some experience creating a simple application with CodeIgniter. Just having been through the video tutorials on CodeIgniter’s website, and a look through the beginner’s guide to CI here on Nettuts+ will be enough!

PSD to HTML/CSS – Create a Beautiful Website From Scratch

As a sequel to the popular Design a Beautiful Website From Scratch tutorial we will be converting our beautiful design into a valid HTML/CSS website. Even though we used the 960.gs template, we will not use its CSS framework to build the site. Instead, we will be coding this design from scratch! It’s always important to create strong and clean markup first, Why is that? One of the reasons is because, if we need to change our design or rearrange some things in our web site, we only need to make modifications to our CSS file and never touch our markup.

Illustrator – Create a Green Landscape Website in Adobe Illustrator

Illustrated web designs are all the rage at the moment, but none more so than illustrated landscape designs! This tutorial will deconstruct the process of creating a gorgeous illustrated website and add some extremely valuable skills to your web design arsenal.

Illustrator – Create a Happy-Bright Children’s Coloring Book Cover

In this intermediate tutorial, I show you how to create a children’s coloring book cover from sketch to finished vector art. We’ll use gradients, custom brushes, and typography. You can easily put together a book cover and use the techniques learned on other projects.

Illustrator – Producing an Informative Map In Perspective with Illustrator

Learn how to professionally illustrate a detailed 3D map in vector. This tutorial describes a well balanced approach that blends information graphic principles with aesthetic choices.

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How to Create a Stylized Vector Grasshopper

In this tutorial, we’ll explain how to create a create a grasshopper based on an image. We’ll review how to trace the needed parts and alter them in order to make the little guy look good in all his vector glory. Let’s get to it!

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Working with Orthographic Projections and Basic Isometrics

This is the first part in a series of tutorials about Isometrics. Isometric projections are a system of drawing that allows an artist to quickly and accurately draw an object without using perspective. I will go into more depth about isometrics later in this tutorial. I’m going to begin by talking about a system that is commonly used with isometrics.

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Make an Aurora Borealis Design in Illustrator

To recreate the light patterns of the Aurora Borealis you’d probably turn to Photoshop’s filters and effects. Use Illustrator however, and you’ll not only achieve a stunning end result, but you’ll also benefit from the flexibility of working with vectors. This is an intermediate level tutorial rewarding you with an attractive desktop wallpaper for your efforts!

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How to Create a Landscape Wallpaper For Your Desktop

Want to spruce up your desktop and at the same time impress your friends? Why not create a vector landscape wallpaper? In this simple tutorial, you will learn how to create an eye-appealing wallpaper quickly and effectively. Let’s get to it!

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How to Create a Vector Sketchbook

In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a customizable vector sketchbook. This intermediate tutorial uses some basic shapes, Shear transforms, and Effects to create a leather texture. Let’s get started!

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Craft a Delicious Chinese Food Icon

This tutorial will demonstrate how to craft a delicious Chinese food icon set. This tutorial requires a generous command of Adobe Illustrator’s tools. Let’s dig into this yummy icon design tutorial, which includes numerous vector illustration techniques.

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How to Create Seamless Watermark Patterns

Watermarks play an important role in protecting your artwork. Generally, we do not give much attention towards a watermark’s appearance and use a text or a Logo to get the job done. A well designed and properly executed watermark can really protect the artwork without actually affecting its appearance. The best way to do this is pattern making. In this tutorial, we will cover two different watermark designs using the same pattern making technique.

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Photoshop – Casting Light on the Creative Retouching Process

With the western world so preoccupied with looks and beauty, retouching is something that can be seen on a daily basis. Learn to put those skills to better use to create mood, atmosphere, and professional digital art. This tutorial casts light on the subject of creative retouching.

Photoshop – Line Brushes

This is a set of 36 Brushes, which are all high resolution at around 2500 pixels by 2500 pixels. They are great for adding that touch of vector stylized background to you your next design project.

Photoshop – How to Make 3D Neon Light Typography

This tutorial will take you through how to create a unique piece of digital artwork. You learn how to compose the 3D type and then add effects and imagery to achieve the final results. The great thing about this technique is the fact that it is very easy to apply to all sorts of neon lights. You can choose to make 3D typography, as in this tutorial, or stylized neon tubes in abstract compositions.

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How to Create a Flaming Photo Manipulation

In this tutorial, we’ll manipulate a picture so it looks like a woman burning in flames. The idea behind this manipulation was to create a nice looking illustration, only by using simple techniques and tools such as the Brush tool and Warp command. I hope you enjoy the tutorial and try it with your own stock imagery.

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Create a Spectacular Grass Text Effect in Photoshop

Ever wanted to make text out of grass? Well with Photoshop you can. In this tutorial we’ll create a rather cool-looking grass-text effect using a photo of grass, the Pen Tool and a bit of patience.

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How to Create a Steampunk Style Illustration in Photoshop

Go simultaneously backward and forward in time with this Steampunk tutorial. The main focus, aside from the style of course, is fusing elements from different sources together to create a cohesive whole. There are many tricks to this end and we shall be looking at light sources, shadows, and image grading.

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Create a Magic Night Themed Web Design From Scratch in Photoshop

The past days I was looking for inspiration in famous old paintings, and got interested on “Starry Night” of Van Gogh and thought: Can I apply this to web design? And the answer is Yes! Then after several hours of work, here’s my tutorial for you, an artistic web design depicting a “Magic Night” concept.

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Create an Out of Bounds Fantasy Illustration

In this tutorial, we will take you through the process of creating a fantasy scene, make water pour out of a painting, make some sort of a absorption effect and end up with a really nice looking color. The main idea behind this surreal illustration is that we are actually in a painting and the painting on the wall is the real world, the world where our vulture tries to escape.

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How to Create Super-Malleable Effects With Colorful Lines

These days colorful lines are one of the most malleable effects you can easily create in Photoshop. They simply fit everywhere and can look really awesome. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create these fantastic colorful effects using only Photoshop. I’ll show you how to compose illustration with these effects. Let’s get to it!

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How to Create a Richly Ornate Typographic Illustration

When looking for top quality content, you’re usually forced to pay for your resources. They’re generally better and easier to work with, and offer a wider range of use. Sometimes though, you can find the same level of quality at zero cost, and it’s exactly what we’re going to do today. We’re going to create a detailed illustration with free gifts and self made goodies.

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Making a Print-Ready Business Card Using Only Photoshop

In this tutorial, we are going to design up a simple business card in Photoshop and get it ready for print with crop marks and bleed. Normally you’d do some of this with a tool like InDesign, but it is in fact possible to get by with just our trusty old Photoshop.

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Audio – Things You Don’t Think About During Mixing (But Should)

Push up the faders, balance the mix, add some EQ, adjust the pans, add some effects and you’re finished. Those are usually the only things that many of us think about when we’re mixing, but there are a number of additional items to keep in mind during mixing besides the mixing process itself. Many less experienced engineers may not be aware of these issues in the first place, and some mixers that are aware sometimes forget in the heat of audio battle. What am I referring to? Let’s take a look at the concerns beyond making your mix sound tall, deep and wide.