In this Best of Tuts+ roundup you’ll learn how to simulate a sniper scope, design and code a flexible website, create an intense movie poster, create a golden vector compass, build a minigolf game with ActionScript 3.0, take sports photos like a pro, create a rocky video game terrain in Blender and get a useful introduction to home recording–among many other things! Let’s take a look.

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The Tuts+ Network has teamed up with MySuiteStuff to hold a network-wide pillowriffic giveaway! One random commenter will be chosen to win a very cute Ps Icon pillow. To increase your chances of winning some loot, make sure to visit each Tuts+ site and take part in each giveaway. Across the network, we’re giving away pillows for all the creative apps you know and love, including After Effects, Illustrator, Flash and Flex. To enter, all you’ve gotta do is comment! Too easy.

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Now that we’ve added Aetuts+ to our Plus family, Plus members will begin to receive weekly bonus tutorials and AE project files for Aetuts+. We hope you’ve also been enjoying your access to exclusive tutorials, video lessons, source files, brushes, audio samples and vector packs from Nettuts+, Psdtuts+, Audiotuts+ 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 5 sites now offering Plus content, $9 a month gives you universal access to each – a little under $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. If you’re not a Plus member, don’t miss-out: you can join now.

If you’ve ever been interested in learning more about motion graphics, now is a great time to start. Plus members can log-in and immediately download a collection of AE project files and a two-part tutorial from AE legend Lloyd Alvarez. To read more about Ae Plus, click here. Not a Plus member yet? You can learn more or join now.

Here’s our collection of the Top 5 tutorials from each site in the Tuts+ network in August. Whether you want to design and code your first website, layer hip hop drums, design a mixed media masterpiece, illustrate a brain icon, make your own Adobe AIR application, model a lethal combat knife, take gorgeous HDR photos or create a gruesome tracked head wound in After Effects, you’ll find lessons on each – and much more – in this collection.

Hit the jump and learn to the max!

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Now our birthday celebrations are over, it’s time to reveal the two winners of the Tuts+ iMac giveaway. Winners were selected with the ‘true random’ number generator at random.org and have been notified via email. Hit the jump to see the results!

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Thanks to everyone who downloaded the Tuts+ Birthday Bundle. We hope you’re enjoying your presents!

Envato’s Birthday is over for this year, so the Tuts+ Birthday Bundle is no longer available. If you’ve come late to the party and are desperate for the files, you’ll get access to all of them (and hundreds more!) when you join our Plus program for just $9.

We’re kicking off three days of celebration at Tuts+ with a confetti-filled bang. Over the next three days we will be giving away two brand spankin’ new 20″ iMacs to two lucky Tuts+ readers. The first iMac will be won by 1 entrant who signs up to Plus before the end of Envato’s 3rd Birthday bash (midnight Friday the 21st of August, Australian Eastern Standard Time). The second iMac will be won by 1 currently subscribed Plus member. The faster you join, the better your chances of winning!

Read on to learn how to submit your entry and to find out what other great gifts we have planned as part of our 3rd birthday party.

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Today we kicked off a huge week at Envato (it’s our 3rd birthday soon, don’t you know?) with the launch of Phototuts+, our 8th site in the Tuts+ Network. There we’ll be covering everything from beginner to advanced photography tips and techniques, post-processing, lighting and how to use your equipment with expertise. If you’ve ever wished you could take nicer photos, or to bump your nice photos into professional-level territory, Phototuts+ was created to help you!

Hit the jump to learn more about Phototuts+ and its editor, David Appleyard.

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This week we have an extra special gift for Plus members. Pulled from the SlashTHREE design community’s gallery and just released ‘Expressions‘ book, we have 9 complete artworks in Photoshop format available exclusively to Plus members. Each artwork .Psd is exactly as it was left on the artist’s computer, meaning every layer, tweak, setting, technique, modification and style can be studied. If you like an effect or technique in one of these artworks, you have a rare opportunity to peek under the hood and see exactly how it was created.

You can also modify these artworks as you please – add, subtract and edit. Something you would have done differently? Do it! Hit the jump to see each artwork. To download them immediately, join Plus for just $9 (that’s $1 per complete artwork)!

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We’ve collected the top 5 tutorials and articles from each Tuts+ site in June, covering web development, Photoshop, vector art, audio production and music, After Effects, Flash and 3D. Now would be a good time to explore a part of the Tuts+ Network you’ve never seen before!

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