July 2011

This article was originally written by Scott Wills for the ActiveDen blog in November 2009, though many of his points are applicable for authors of other marketplaces.

Create Creepy, Branch Based Typography

Learn how to create some creepy typography created out of winter branches:

Final Image

As always, this is the final image that we’ll be creating:

Hey everyone! It’s Skellie here, and I look after the educational side of Envato, like the Tuts+ blogs, Tuts+ Premium membership, Rockable Press and FreelanceSwitch. Today I’m proud to announce a big change in my team: David Appleyard is the new Tuts+ Manager! He’ll be responsible for making sure each of the Tuts+ sites are awesome, and has already been hard at work whipping everything into shape.

Here’s what he had to say when asked how he feels about the new role, and his plans for the coming months:

Since starting out as the Mac.AppStorm editor two years ago, I’ve had a wonderful time working for Envato. I was honoured to be asked to take on the role of Tuts+ Manager, and the first few weeks working with our super-talented team of editors and writers has been a pleasure.

Making money on the Tuts+ Marketplace, being too advanced to learn Photoshop at university, “the Cintiq is just the King of Tablets”, and clicking “Refresh” on his Earnings page like a madman. This week we meet Philip Zeplin-Frederiksen (Zeplix) from the Tuts+ Marketplace and GraphicRiver.

If you’re an Envato marketplace author and would like to be interviewed for the blog, head over to this form. We’d love to hear from you.

Tell us a bit about yourself. Where are you from, what do you do for a living?

As Halloween approaches we bring you a hell-like burning text effect! Enjoy the tutorial!

Final Image

As always, this is the final image that we’ll be creating:

Step 1

So let’s start with a new document of 3300 px width and 2336 px height at 300 resolutions. I created large document because I wanted to print it on A4 size.

Step 2

Press U and select rectangle tool and create a rectangle of document size and apply gradient overlay with colors 890000 & ffb400. Now select transform tool and increase rectangle size from document size to 4515 px width and 3196px height.

Professional Photo Retouching for Perfect Skin

Skin tones are rarely even, as a retoucher it’s important to remember that after your healing and do

Wavy Gravy – Who Needs Twixtor? 2000 FPS+ With Apple Motion

Using a Canon 7D at 59.94 frames/second then timed in Apple Motion using Optical flow. No rotoscoping or masking. The slowest footage was slowed down to about 2% or 3% speed.

Thanks to Matt Wiebe for grinding it out that day. He can do flippier tricks, but I needed straight airs to avoid the wavy gravy.

I have nothing against Twixtor, just can’t afford it. Thank you to CrumplePop for the Motion Tutorial.

Enjoy!

Have you checked out the marketplaces’ free files for July? Download them while you can!

CodeCanyon: Context Menu Class

ContextMenu.js is a very easy to use utility that lets you add custom right click menus to any HTML element on your website!

Features:

31 Powerful and Usable Web Applications to Improve Your Workflow

Nowadays, a lot of great and usable applications are sold by their creators. This way, authors, get monetary support for their work, however, not every author decides to sell, some of the creator companies simply share it with the community for free. All of the web apps below are either totally free, have free plans or have at least one month of free trial so you could try them.

Carbon Made

Operate your own portfolio with a variety of handy tools in this stylish and cosy online app.