For four years the Envato Marketplaces have helped authors around the world earn an income selling their digital wares. Along the way we’ve grown from one marketplace to seven, with more on the way. We’ve gone from hundreds of members to hundreds of thousands. Items from our marketplaces have appeared in projects for companies big and small, all around the world. And most importantly of all, we’ve had thousands of authors cash out earnings, ranging from a bit of money for a big weekend to sums in the tens of thousands of dollars a month!

It’s been an amazing ride, and here at Envato along with our commitment to growing Tuts+, we are completely committed to making our marketplaces the best around. That’s why I’m very excited today to announce that as of the end of September we are rolling out some dramatically improved rates for all our exclusive authors!

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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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Our recent Tuts+ Survey showed that many of you have feedback on how we can make Phototuts+ better for you. Now is your chance to let us know what you want from Phototuts+. Please take a few minutes to complete our reader survey.

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After reviewing the Bokeh Masters Kit a few weeks ago, I’m pleased to let you know that we have three Masters Edition kits to give away to a few lucky readers! Read on to find out how to enter.

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June was a stellar month for Tuts+. Mobiletuts+ had recently launched and started off with some great iPhone and Andriod development tutorials. Creative Sessions focused on Digital Illustration this month and started gearing up for July’s Interface Design session. During June a survey was run across all of Tuts+ to give our readers the opportunity to provide some feedback, over 7000 people participated and one was lucky enough to win a $250 Amazon Voucher. Here’s a small sample of the best from Tuts+ this month!

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We’re kicking off a new competition today, to win a Canon Selphy ES30 Compact Photo Printer. It’s a handy piece of kit to have around, and entering is really easy. Read on to find out how!

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In three years Tuts+ has grown from one site to nine and continues to offer some of the best tutorials on the web.

Now we want to know how we can make it better. It will take less than three minutes but will give us the information we need to make Tuts+ more awesome!

Survey Closed!

By filling out the Survey you go into the draw to win a $250 Amazon Gift Voucher.

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It’s a wrap. This session has covered a mix of illustrative lettering articles on theory and in depth case studies. We’ve taken a close look at various artist’s work and their various processes of constructing illustrative lettering. We’ve looked at how to derive inspiration from your imagination, the history of type, and how to create letters with an illustrative flair. This session posted across numerous Tuts+ sites: Psdtuts+, Vectortuts+, Cgtuts+, and Phototuts+. We’ll continue to expand each session as we cover new topics and integrate your feedback. Let us know what you think of this session’s material.

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After several thousand votes, we’ve narrowed down a few hundred entries to one winner! Read on to find out who will be receiving the prize, and how you can help us ensure our next competition is even better.

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