We’re excited to announce that Tuts+ Premium members now have access to a new Rockable eBook and in-depth video course on DSLR Photography as part of their membership. The eBook is Rockstar Icon Designer (usually $24 USD), and the course is Introduction to DSLR Photography with professional photographer Kim Bultsma. If you own a DSLR but don’t fully understand how to get the most out of it, you’ll love this course. Keep reading to learn more, or become a Tuts+ Premium member.

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We’ve just launched a free newsletter you can use to keep up to date with new tutorials and articles on Phototuts+. At the end of each week you’ll get a digest of all the tutorials and articles published that week, mailed straight to your inbox. If there’s a big announcement coming, newsletter subscribers will often be the first to know.

And as a welcome for new newsletter subscribers, you’ll get immediate access to a secret tutorial we’ve never published anywhere on this site!

The newsletter is free to join and ad-free. Look for the ‘Join our newsletter!’ heading in the sidebar and join nearly 1,200 other subscribers (and counting). If you want to see a preview of the newsletter, read on!

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From the bottom of our creative little hearts, we want to thank you all for making the Tuts+ Quiz so much fun! We had over 1,500 entries, and 27 prizes. We’re sorry you can’t all win a prize, but we hope you had a lot of fun and got to know Tuts+ a little bit better! We certainly got to know you better, and we learned that Tuts+ readers are clever and good-looking.

Read on to see who won!

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It’s Day 9 of our stupendous Tuts+ Holiday Quiz competition. We’re nearly there! Today, you’ll be tested on your knowledge of Phototuts+. Read on to unlock the ninth part of the entry form URL!

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Thanks for being with us through 2010—for reading, subscribing, commenting, and submitting awesome tuts. 2011 should be amazing! Enjoy the time you spend with family and friends this holiday season. Stay tuned for a video greeting from the Envato team after the jump. From our family to yours, “Here’s to a GREAT New Year!”

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It’s the holiday season. And to celebrate, we’re launching something special: the Tuts+ Holiday Quiz. Each day for 10 days we’ll publish a quiz question on a different Tuts+ site. Together, the answers will form a secret URL string that will give you access to an equally secret entry form. The prizes we’ve assembled will blow you away!

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Today we’re extremely proud to launch Webdesigntuts+, the 10th member of the Tuts+ family. Though we have a long history of publishing excellent web design content, Webdesigntuts+ is our first site completely dedicated to this topic – one which we’re very passionate about.

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We’ve just launched the Tuts+ Marketplace, where Premium quality tutorials – both from our Tuts+ Premium program and from unaffiliated authors – are available to purchase individually. Our Tuts+ Premium program will still stay exactly the same – you’ll get all the same things, for the same price. But now, non-members will be able to purchase selected Premium tutorials on a one-off basis, without a Premium membership.

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Happy Birthday to us! It’s Envato’s 4th Birthday, and to celebrate, we’re giving away a Birthday Bundle packed with $400 worth of files for only $20.

The bundle includes four Tuts+ Premium tutorials, a $50 MediaTemple hosting voucher, five blog and website themes, five Flash and Unity3D files, six code packages for CSS, JavaScript, WordPress and PHP, seven motion graphics projects, sixteen PSDs and vector files, three CG models and textures, six royalty-free audio files and a $10 voucher for Rockable Press. When you buy the bundle and open it up for the first time, you’ll be amazed at the value inside.

The bundle is on sale for 5 days, starting now. This is a limited time offer that ends on Tuesday, August 24 at 12:00pm Melbourne, Australia time (check the current time at Envato HQ!). Visit the Birthday Bundle website, purchase the bundle now, or learn more after the jump!

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We’ve been burning the midnight oil at Tuts+ HQ to bring you Mobiletuts+, the youngest member of the Tuts+ family. It’s all about quality tutorials for mobile developers – all mobile developers, regardless of preferred platform. Topics will include native development with the iPhone, Android, Windows and Blackberry platforms, cross-platform development with tools like Titanium and Phone Gap, and techniques for building mobile web apps and mobile accessible web sites with HTML 5. Visit Mobiletuts+ or read more after the jump.

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