Celebrating the Launch of GIFtuts+

Celebrating the Launch of GIFtuts+

on Mar 31st 2010 with 96 comments

Today we’re pleased to introduce the newest member of the Tuts+ family: GIFtuts+. We’ll be publishing tutorials and video training on creating gorgeous animated GIFs in Photoshop, Ulead GIF Animator and Microangelo. If you’ve ever wanted to freely learn how to create ornamental animated GIFs and impressive navigational graphics for Web Pages, now is the time to start! Hit the jump to learn all about GIFtuts+ and check out the newest site in the Tuts+ Network family.

We care about GIFs

Happy artist.

Creating GIFs is a topic that we often get asked about. Whenever we’ve published a tutorial on creating GIFs on Psdtuts+, like our Animated Snowman Tutorial, it’s been very popular. We thought it was about time we gave this in-demand but under-served aspect of design education its own dedicated Tuts+ site!

Giftuts+ Logo

Here’s a sneak peek of what the site will have to offer in the coming weeks:

  • How to Create Hellish Animated Flaming Skulls
  • How to Make a Slick ‘Under Construction’ Sign
  • Make a Blood-spattering Stick-figure Animation

We want to take a moment to thank our team of developers and designers for all their hard work on the new site: Derek, Fred and Ryan, thanks guys!

Cowboy on computer.

Enough talk… it’s time to get moving and visit GIFtuts+!

ENTER
ENTER

And… our newest Envato marketplace

    Pointing hand.
  • Tying in with the launch of our newest Tuts+ site we’re also debuting a new Envato marketplace to a select group of Beta testers. If you’re interested in making passive income from your GIFs – meaning you make a GIF once, then sell it many times – we have an exciting announcement for you.

GifHole is looking for talented animated/static GIF artists to help set the standard for a new online GIF marketplace. Envato (the makers of Tuts+) are developing this site for all those who are looking for quality GIF stock and those who want to become authors in this field and earn money by selling their work online, again and again.

Giftuts+ Logo

GifHole will complement the existing Envato marketplaces: ActiveDen, AudioJungle, ThemeForest, VideoHive and GraphicRiver.

Flaming Skull

 
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  • http://desaindigital.com jeprie

    Yaaaayyy! Another redesign. This will bring us back to the geocities dark ages.

  • http://www.zenelements.com Alex Mitchell

    Very good, envato – I’ll have to be better prepared next year…
    I look forward to the new ‘CS’ and hope you all have a great and fun, prank filled April Fools!

  • http://noir-badger.deviantart.com spiderm0nkey

    Lol! I don’t pay much attention to the dates and was thinking ‘wtf??!! Quality of the tus+ sites really HAS gone down!’

    Haha :D

  • dooze

    i demamd ms paint tuts!!!

    • León

      LOL!

  • http://www.broof.de BroOf

    Lol you got me :D:D:D

  • http://www.wildemedia.co.uk Christine Wilde

    URGH! Nasty! lol Good April fools though. I thought you meant Gift Tuts. I was like tutorials for gifts? huh?

  • http://tomsbigbox.com/ Tom Walters

    I’ve always wanted to master the art of making GIFs! lol – great idea :)

  • http://www.nelutu.info Nelutu

    :)) nice

  • http://sexidesign.com Melody

    Would’ve been icing on the cake if the cowboy had a lil crack showing lol..

    • TheTruth

      You’re weird.

  • http://www.designcure.co.uk DesignCure

    Awesome, nice to see people putting effort into their April Fools jokes! Creative Sessions looks good though…

  • Victor

    Oh man, first I was like “what the…..” but then I realized what day it was ;D

  • http://www.pixeljunkyard.com Pixel Junkyard
  • SeenD

    I kinda miss the “e-mail me” animated gif.

  • http://www.woony.be woony

    great april fools :)

  • http://twitter.com/michalkozak Michal Kozak

    It took about 5 minutes before I finally realized that today’s the Apil first ;x. Great one, guys :)!

  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/ericadalbello Erica

    Actually, I think that gifs have their days counted.

    Cause they are poor in colors, and with the internet getting faster, flash can substitute them.

    well, its my opinion, this site isn’t in the same level like as the others Envato’s websites.

    and my apologizes if I’m wrong, and for my english (I speak portuguese).

    good vibrations for all.

    Érica

  • http://creatia.us/ Ryan Doss

    HA! I was getting very disappointed with envato for a minute there! lol… good wrk I was in fer the win there shortly :p

  • http://lbnuke.com Lori

    Awesome! If only there was a midi file playing…

  • Kate

    The combination of rainbow bg, Papyrus and Comic Sans = EPIC WIN.
    D:
    I lol’d for five minutes.

  • http://www.sitesyrup.co.uk SiteSyrup

    ugh awful, thank god they are a thing of the past

    wake up the rest of you !

    -=SiteSyrups last Blog Post- More Syrupy Monsters =-

  • Rich

    I just submitted a tutorial on how to create an “Under Construction” banner with a little stick figure digging. lol ;)

    Wow, seeing this brought me back to 1998!

  • RUGRLN

    I gotta say, GIF images have always been related to me as 20th Century graphics, and that preview img sucks…you had me there for a minute!!

  • Kinsbane

    I see what you guys did there.

  • frankz

    lols

  • Filip

    Print Tuts, cause everyone knows that web is easy.

  • Thera

    hahahahHaHaHAHAHAHA

  • Allison

    This is awesome! OK, this is competing for my favorite joke this year.

    My other favorite is this Web Marketing parody. So funny.

    http://websmart.tv/fun/how-to-market-on-the-web/

    • http://hotbeans.wordpress.com DigitalBenjamin

      A HA! Love how they are making fun of Marketing-Speak. Good stuff…

  • http://www.twitter.com/snarphblat Hillary

    I cannot wait for these new tuts! So excited! How did you make the rainbow background?!

  • Greg

    Hopefully one day Flash will be viewed as April Fools material.

  • diantregraph

    T_T my eyes!!!! when Internet Explorer was cool XD!

  • Zachary

    HAHAHAHA Wow I almost fell for this one!! Great april fools!!

  • http://www.webtwist.de Webtwist – Webdesign Bamberg

    I feel a little sick in a way :-p. But in 10 years, we laugh about our designs from today.

  • http://figherrimo.com Gianluca

    AUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAH that’s GREAT! XD .. great joke, guys, great! :D

  • fharos

    04/01/2010 …….. ;-)

  • Mike

    lol. I visited the site a few times today, and kept skipping over this thinking “i know this site likes to branch out and do blogs on different subjects, but .gif’s?”

  • mark

    If you want to see awesome modern gifs see this artisit on bebo.com

    http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MID=367137231&MemberId=225393327

  • sc

    %$^*<
    yaw got me! i hate that!lol

  • http://www.104dorm.com 104ART

    Amount Fool’s Day ~ ~ ~ Almighty

  • Hanna Camille

    At first I was like “NOOOoooooooo!!!!” I hate GIF animations. WTF are tuts+ doing??? After about 5 min. when I realized it was April fools joke I laughed so hard I almost feel of my chair :D

  • http://paulagostinelli.com Paul Agostinelli

    I knew something was up when I saw the rainbow background and the papyrus text, I was well confused for a good minute there though when the article itself seemed so serious!

  • Colin

    Man…I sent in a GIFtut to PSDtuts a long time ago…

  • Kenny Villacorta

    Got me! LOL

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