During our very awesome Graphic Design Week we offered a $3,500 USD prize to the person who could create the best and most original collection of Envato marketplace files. Literally thousands of entries poured in, and now we have chosen the top 10. Cast your vote to determine who will win an incredible $3,500 to spend on the ultimate graphic design setup!

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Psd Plus launched in late February 2008. Since then we’ve added dozens of tutorials for Plus members and hundreds of Psd source files. Over 6,000 members have formed our unique Plus community.

Psd Plus tutorials have been some of the best on the site, and in this post, we highlight the 10 most popular Psd Plus tutorials of all time, based on traffic, number of downloads, and comments. There may be a few here you’ve never seen before!

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Today we’re pleased to introduce the newest member of the Tuts+ family: Cgtuts+. There we’ll be publishing tutorials and video training on software like Autodesk Maya and 3Ds Max, Maxon Cinema 4D, Blender, Zbrush and Mudbox. If you’ve ever wanted to freely learn how to create 3D animations, art or elements for games, now is the time to start!

We’ve launched with a massive 194 minute video training series on how to create art for current gen games. The tutorial was created by the site’s editor, Kaleb Aylsworth, who is currently working as an Environmental 3D Artist on BioShock 2 multiplayer - so he’s got plenty of knowledge and smarts to share!

Go on, open a new tab, check it out, leave a comment, then keep reading to learn more about our plans for the site.

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Now that we’ve added Audiotuts+ to our Plus family, Plus members will begin to receive weekly bonus sample packs and tutorials for Audiotuts+. We hope you’ve also been enjoying your access to exclusive tutorials, video lessons, source files, brush and vector packs from Nettuts+, Psdtuts+ and Vectortuts+. Thank you so much for supporting the sites and helping us to cover costs - with mounting bandwidth, content and management expenses, these sites would not exist without their Plus members!

With 4 sites now offering Plus content, $9 a month gives you universal access to each - a little over $2 per month for each site. This moves us closer to our goal of offering the best possible low-cost, high-quality education to creatives. And if you’re into motion graphics, Aetuts+ will be the next site to go Plus!

If you’ve ever been interested in learning more about audio, now is a great time to start. Plus members can login and download a 65-piece drum and bass sample pack from the Audio Plus section. To read more about the first Audio Plus download, click here. Not a Plus member yet? You can learn more or join now.

Here are some of the best tutorials and articles published on the Tuts+ Network over 60 days in March and April. You might be surprised at how much you can learn from a site outside your area of expertise. Why not make it your goal this month to learn a new skill? Whether it’s motion graphics, web development and design, music production, Flash, illustration, logo design or digital art, the Tuts+ network is an excellent place to start the journey.

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Our new yearly subscription option is $30 cheaper than paying $9 per month for 12 months. It’s the perfect choice for people who want to stay subscribed for a while, or for people who’ve been too budget-conscious to subscribe in the past. You really can’t get better value than this, and it brings the month on month cost of a Plus subscription down to just $6.50.

That’s $6.50 for instant access to 37 Psd Plus tutorials and brush packs, and you’ll also be able to instantly pillage literally hundreds of source files for your favorite tutorials. That’s not to mention the huge archive of bonus tutorials and downloads we’ve built up in Vector Plus and Net Plus, which you will be able to access straight away when you sign-up now.

Don’t forget that the first month of your subscription is essentially a no-risk free trial, as our friendly support person Roma is always on hand to refund you 100%, no questions asked, if you decide that Plus is not for you. We will buy-back your subscription if Plus doesn’t completely blow you away.

Please note that the yearly membership is a one-off payment not a recurring subscription. When your one year is about to end you’ll be sent a special discount offer to purchase the next one if you’d like to continue.

Get started now, because there are hundreds of tutorials and downloads you’ve never seen waiting on the other side!

I receive all kinds of suggestions for new Tuts+ sites, but none have been quite so numerous as the requests for us to launch a Flash tutorials site. And with good reason: we cover Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and web development, so why not Adobe Flash?

Today we’re pleased to introduce the newest member of the Tuts+ family: Flashtuts+

Go on, open a new tab, check it out, leave a comment, then keep reading to learn more about our plans for the site.

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Those of you who like to follow tutorials on paper while you use Photoshop will be pleasantly surprised today: we’ve added a print stylesheet to the Tuts+ theme. This means that if you navigate to a tutorial and click File > Print in your browser menu-bar the final product will be free of all the extra stuff (sidebars, comments, and so on). We hope you enjoy the new feature and encourage you to try it out!

February was a huge month for Tuts+, with the launch of our single Plus membership, Tuts+ dashboard, the Nettuts+ Plus program. It was also a big month for our content, with plenty of fantastic tutorials published. Here are the best of them!

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