Traveling around South-East Asia to meet clients, learning to love sound design, adopting a dog from a rescue shelter, and having more speakers, headphones and hard drives than you can throw a stick at. This week we meet Chris Gear (OhmLab) from AudioJungle.

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?

Members Area Tutorial: Photo Manipulate a Complex Space Station Scene

In this tutorial I’ll show you how to create a sci-fi artwork featuring a space station. You will learn advanced blending techniques, but also some fantastic drawing, lighting and detailing techniques.

Final Image

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

After a team switch-around, Vectortuts+ recently announced a new editor and associate editor:

We have a new editing team! Today we’re proud to announce that Kate McInnes is now Editor of Vectortuts+ and Sharon Milne has joined as Associate Editor. With over 20 years of combined vector knowledge, the site is definitely in good hands.

Create a Polished 3D Gold Bars Text Effect

Final Image:

Here is the final image that we will be creating from scratch using layer styles and filters:

Step 1:

Please create new document. You can do this by pressing Ctrl+N.

Use 1200 px as a width and 800px as height.

Use dark grey for a background. To do this press Shift+Backspace, and from the dropdown menu choose color.

and choose 353535 from color window.

Besides being marketplace authors and buyers and tutorial readers and writers, many of us are freelancers looking for good clients. Well, good clients aren’t always easy to find.

FreelanceSwitch understand the difficulty, and recently shared this video on the blog.

This week we look at How To Find Good Clients by FreelanceJam. Freelancers not only need to know how to find clients, they need to know how to find good clients. In this episode, the FreelanceJam duo Brian and Dave break down the strategies that have worked for them over their years of freelancing.

How do you find good clients for your freelance work? And how many of those techniques can be applied to marketplace marketing?

The use of mobile devices such as iPad, iPhone and other smart phones has increased a lot in the last few years and this represents the main reason why responsive web design started to gain more importance in web design. A responsive website is one that can easily adapt its layout and design to fit in any device resolution. In this post I share with you 10 useful responsive web design tutorials which I’m sure will help you understand better this concept and design more complex websites.

Members Area Tutorial: Create an Advanced 3D Matte Painting Using Sketchup and Photoshop (Part 1)

This tutorial is a mammoth, and actually our longest, most in depth tutorial on record! It’s great to welcome Caroline to the team, and I’m sure you guys will learn a lot from her.

This tutorial was simply too long to post as a single post, with around 200 images and 57 incredibly detailed steps. As a result we have split it into two sections. Today’s section (Part 1) teaches you how to construct a complex building structure from scratch using the free software Google Sketchup. Part 2 will be posted this Friday and shows you how to take the 3D Sketchup model and use advanced matte painting techniques and advanced Photoshop skills to turn it into a realistic final scene.

Let’s get going!

A note from Caroline:

We’re always looking to expand into new areas with the Tuts+ network — just last month, we’ve launched both Mactuts+ and Gamedevtuts+ — and we have some really exciting sites planned for the rest of the year as well!

Most of the skills we teach at present are computer-based. Photoshop, web development, WordPress, After Effects — all of these are fairly “high tech” sites. With our next project, we’re going to be teaching something slightly different: Craft!

Crafttuts+ will be launching soon, and we’re currently looking for an editor for the site. Read on to find out about the job requirements, and decide whether you’d like to apply!

A number of the Tuts+ team met up in New York recently to brainstorm about the tutorial network, work and meet the community. Here they are enjoying an inspiring view of the city.

There’s a fantastic collection of photos of the event on Flickr now. Make sure you check them out.

And you can find hundreds of Envato-related photos on the We Are Envato Flickr stream.

A Behind the Scenes Look at the Work Processes of World Renowned Artists

At PSD.FanExtra we believe that the best way to learn is from experts in your field. That’s why we employ some of the best tutorial writers and bring you regular quality content.

Tutorials are great, but I often find myself looking at work from some of the world’s top digital artists and wondering about the thought processes, techniques and workflows used to create such incredible art. I always think ‘if I only I could get my hands on their original Photoshop files I’d be able to break down exactly what makes their work so awesome!’.

Tutorials are very important especially if you are a beginner designer. Here’s a list with 10 great websites that offer helpful tutorials and other great inspirational resources.

1. PSD TUTS

This is one of the best! The tutorials are great and it is also a great source of inspiration.

2. Net Tuts

From the makers of PSDTUTS.com. It offers great tips for web design.