August 2011

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The Ultimate Collection of Technology Themed Vector Files

Vector sets are always great for enhancing your designs and saving you a lot of work producing original illustrations. However, it can be difficult to find quality vector files. Thankfully, we’ve compiled over 30 awesome vector designs that feature technology themed designs, such as laptops, pcs, iphones, cables, chargers, speakers and more! Most of these items are totally free, with the most expensive only costing a few dollars. We hope you enjoy them!

90′s Technology Vectors

A simple and beautiful set of vectors that spread a cool air around them.

Design an Artistic Watercolor Blog Layout

Final Image

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

Step 1

Create a new document (1200X1200px).

Lay out some guides to help structure your layout:

Vertical Guides:

100px, 175px, 750px, 800px, 1100px.

Horizontal Guides:

It’s Envato’s 5th birthday and we’re ready to celebrate! With another year comes another Bundle, and this year’s Bundle is bigger and better than ever with over $500 ($507 in fact) worth of awesome files all for only $20!

Before submitting your first file to VideoHive, consider the following factors, which frequently contribute to rejected submissions. Please note that this list should only be used only as a guideline.

[This post is taken from the Envato Marketplace Wiki.]

Documentation

Every Project File on VideoHive must include documentation to make the customization process as simple as possible for the purchaser. While you don’t have to teach the buyer how to use After Effects, you should absolutely discuss any basic changes every buyer must make, and the process to make such changes..

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Becoming a father, being a full-time author, “always seek inspiration”, and playing World of Warcraft with his wife. This week we meet Luis Zuno (Ansimuz) from ActiveDen and ThemeForest.

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

My name is Luis Zuno aka Ansimuz. I was born in Guadalajara Mexico. I am married and I’ll be a father pretty soon.

At the moment I’m a full-time author at Envato’s marketplaces, but from time to time I take some small projects.

Which marketplaces do you belong to? What types of files do you sell?

Before submitting your first template to CodeCanyon, consider the following factors, which frequently contribute to rejected submissions. Please note that this list should only be used only as a guideline.

[This post is taken from the Envato Marketplace Wiki.]

 

From today onwards, our focus is changing. Instead of covering everything to do with Flash, Unity and Silverlight, we’ll be covering the design and development of browser-based apps and games in general. This means no more tutorials on full-Flash websites or AIR, and lots of new content on game design, UI, and HTML5. Read on to find out what we’ve got in store!

[This post originally appeared on Activetuts+ on August 8th.]

What’s Coming Up?

We’ve been preparing this change for a while, so we have a lot of articles planned, including:

Photo Manipulate an Explosive Magical Reading Scene

Wptuts+ is Envato’s tutorial site about WordPress.

Wptuts+ is a site dedicated to teaching people how to use WordPress, develop widgets, plugins and themes, successfully scale sites, find interesting WordPress resources, and build a freelance business around the platform. Over 25 million people have chosen WordPress to power the place on the web they call “home”, and it’s by far and away the most successful blogging platform online.

Visit the site today! Is Wptuts+ your favorite Envato site? Let us know why in the comments.

Have you checked out the free marketplace files for August? Download them while you can!

Tutorials: Create a Retro Style, Airline Destination, Travel

Based in Brunswick Ohio, BrainHost (http://www.brainhost.com) is a mid-size web hosting company running on (slightly) less than hundred employees. Its current shared hosting plan is priced at a very affordable level – $4.95/mo for 48 months plan (and, $6.95/mo for 24 months plan) where customers will get free site migration, unlimited disk storage, bandwidth, addon domain, as well e-mail accounts.

For those who are trying to learn more about BrainHost, well…  you have come to the right place. We’ve got Ryan Niddle, Brain Host’s Director of Business Development, onboard and he will be answering some questions about his company in this interview.

Congratulations to this week’s featured marketplace authors.

ActiveDen Featured Author: marpies

Our current featured author here on ActiveDen is marpies who joined in May 2009, has a portfolio of 8 items for sale and has racked up 254 sales!
View marpies’ Portfolio

Create A Unique Steampunk Photo Manipulation In Photoshop

In this tutorial I will be showing you how to create a composite image using various elements that will come together to make a unique Steampunk design. We will be using the Pen Tool, Layer Masks and Adjustment Layers, and doing quite a bit of Photo Manipulating throughout the tutorial. We have a lot to cover today so let’s get caffeinated and begin!