oh man! this is not necessary! don’t pay attention to those comments! we know you make the best work you can! don’t worry!
Cheers!

hehe thanks Ibrahack, I figured I can write out an answer one time and then from now on i can always comment and say “Please read this post” and be done with it

why do we have to pay!?!?!

xD well done mate! ill add this to my bookmarks to give it to them too!
cheers!

Personally, I have absolutely no problem with paid features. You obviously have to make money somehow in order for this to be worth your time. In my opinion, you and your business making money is in the best interest of all of us as readers. If the site doesn’t make money there will eventually be no more PSDTuts, and that would be a shame (not that that’s going to happen). Even the quality of the free content requires money to be made in some way. Good luck with monetizing the site!

Thanks for the info on the back end of this awesome site. Like Ibrahack said, this shouldn’t be necessary, but I guess it is. I appreciate your effort and time to create such an outstanding site. I hope this little thank you will go along way for you. Good luck, with all your other start ups and ideas.

If you can’t make enough off of ads you need to hire somebody who knows how to monetize using ads.

Thanks guys! Yeah I think most people understand, and hopefully any that didn’t, will now!

Meanwhiles I’m going to post some numbers at the end of this month, we’ve got some pretty amazing statistics. It took less than a week to clear a terrabyte of bandwidth this month !!! The highest ever!

Don’t stress it. It doesn’t bother me that you’re trying to put bread on your table Just keep putting out those free tutorials for us cheapos out here. Keep up the good work.

Nice words Steven! i think that too! PSDTuts is not going to die just for a couple of guys that think this nice content doesn’t worth!
Good luck Collis, my personal wish is i hope you earn more money with PSDTuts than Bill Gates with Microsoft! xD

Good writing. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed my Google News Reader..

Matt Hanson

I’ll be the first to admit that I considered this site as a “competitor” site. But as days went on, I realized that it’s useless to even try to compete with the excellent content that this site provides. Collis is right, maintaining a site is hard work; even more so when you’ve got tons upon tons of loyal visitors to keep and please. I’m a regular reader of this site, and while I hardly contribute to the community, I can definitely appreciate everything that the site brings to the table.

Very rarely are is there content on this site that one needs to pay for. You don’t even need the PSD files because the tutorials teach you how to reproduce the content anyway. You seriously wont find another site like this, and if you do, they also have a way to monetize their site and bring income.

Normal low cost servers only allow 500gb - 1tb of bandwidth a month. Anything that exceeds that will result in either a site shut down or extra cost. To maintain a server that pushes 5+ tb a month in bandwidth costs hundreds if not thousands of dollars a month. So those of you who disagree with the plus service should be ashamed of yourself.

Like Collis said, you dont HAVE to pay for the service, and 95% of the content on this site is free. Show appreciation and maybe even a little support for what Collis and his crew have achieved in brining you such a great site.

Ryan
pixelmana.com

I do agree with Ibrahack. This site have helped me a lot and I love it. I cant pay to be a member yet, but if I could, I would pay. Even it more than 9$/month because this site is tha best. Keep on good work

top stuff mate , i like how you just say it as it is.

This site does write and post some of the best photoshop tutorials on the web bar none. BUT…I personally feel the price is slightly on the high side. I mean World of Warcraft is $12.99 a month. Does this provide the same value as that? Flickr is $24.95 a year for unlimited photo storage which I feel is a fantastic value. I could get a great photoshop book, jam packed with tutorials and examples for $25 - $50. If you honestly feel that the price for a plus membership is inline with other things at the $10 a month price point then I think you should leave it as is. However, I personally would be more interested in a yearly subscription and would sign up for that it were around the $50 - $75 range. Also a yearly subscription takes the site out of the monthly price range and doesn’t cause me to pause and compare this to my other monthly expenses.

Also if you did do some other sites, flashtuts and csstuts, I would be forced to pick between the three as to which to subscribe too. Paying $30 a month on tutorials is a wee bit steep. That is if you chose to make subscriptions for your other ventures as well.

The people that complain about that obviously dont appreciate or understand what goes into maintaining as popular as PSDTUTS. You’re doing an awesome job with the site!

I think a few people were put becuase they didnt instantly realise that the tutorial was a members only one. I made the same mistake, but didnt react like some of them.
PSDTuts is an AWESOME site. No ads, no bull, QUALITY tutorials. Thats what sets it apart.
If you just maybe put a little members plus logo or something similar on the members plus tutorials so that they are instantly reckognisable, people wouldnt feel “ripped off” when they clicked on them and wouldnt react so harshly.
I too intend on becomeing a member shortly, and i think you should make sure members get their fair share aswell. Make sure THE BEST tutorials are members only so they get what they pay for.
ALso similar css tutorial and flash tutorial sites all linked together with psdtuts with one flat members fee would REALLY get my attention!
Keep up the good work!

keep charging. i find this site a great service, reference, and utility as a designer. since the launch i have purchased the $22 quarterly package. working full time it’s near impossible to balance production with the time it takes to explore and master these new techniques. thank you and keep up the good work. you’re keeping me up to date and advancing my creative potential.

$9 is way too much, in my opinion. That is over $100/year. I pay $7/month for Backpack, and it’s infinitely more productive to me, even though a number of these tutorials are useful.

Look at it this way, if I bought a book for $50, I would expect the same number of tutorials i would likely get in a year from this site.

I appreciate your attempt to monetize this site, but I would rather see and know what I was going to get BEFORE I shelled out the money. Some of your tutorials are not relevant to what I am interested in.

Why do some have problems with that? PSDTUTS has been _giving_away_ designer-grade tutorials for a very long time now and those people probably never complained about that
You have said it better than it ever can be said, which is probably why I won’t need to add anything here except, thank you for the great help, information and inspiration this site has and will be providing to a huge number upcoming designers and even wanabes, like myself

very well said love the site im going to go plus+++++ : )

Keep up the great work!!

You make top-notch stuff - when you announced the plus program, I thought “it’s about damn time”. Keep up the great work, and thanks for all you do.

This is one of the most in depth free featured PSD tutorial sites I have seen. I have absolutely no issue with paying for portions of it. I try to recreate the tutorials on my own to enhance my abilities, and now that I am a plus member, I can “check my work” with the PSD. If people do not want the extra content, you certainly provide more than enough to serve the community for free.

Just my opinion on the matter, but I’ve always taken the assumption that posting stats about your site (as you mentioned in the last paragraph) was not a very professional thing to do. Of course, that’s just my opinion, and it’s your site.

On a sidenote: I think the Plus system is awesome, even if I can’t afford it! Keep up the good tutorials, and I’ll keep digging your stories, and click on your ads when I remember

I went Plus yesterday just because of the people complaining (and I really wanted that time machine icon ). I did the quarterly deal, not to save money, but to not have to worry about it for 3 months. I wish there was an annual option. $9/month is a steal for the quality of content available here.

Thank you for all the support everyone, now I can get us back to our regularly scheduled program of tutorial awesomeness

Collis Ta’eed are you persian? cuz your last name is!

Just wondering Collis, since you make it sound like your going to be making a lot more tutorial sites.

Why don’t you make ONE superior tutorial site with flash, photoshop, etc.?

I really think you need not to write this kind of article.
People have this own mind. I think most of PsdTUT reader understand why you put PLUS ang make.
This is so f****** reasonable.

We get good tut from here. We wish Psdtut becoming better and better. We wish more and more “PSDTUT”-kind- web come out!!

Keeping going, PSDtut!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!huh huh

(I read Chinese and my En is not good. Excuse me)

@Hamed: hehe yes, I’m half Persian, half English!

@Cain: Good question! I’m not sure, weirdly it hadn’t crossed my mind. I guess I just figured then everyone would have their own place to hang out, especially for smaller groups. But maybe you’re right. Will think on it and write in my black book

Collis, this site is amazing. I pay (well my wonderful parents pay) over 500 for my pcgraphics class, and I have learned more in a 9$ subscription period of one month here than all year at school. My point is, there aren’t many garaunteed sites out there that provide this quality of tutorials. There is obviously a TON of work put into reviewing, revising, editing, and publishing these fantastic tutorials; a level of quality that nowhere else has.

I CAN’T WAIT until you begin to develop your next sites (I love making websites too, I just never have time between freelancing and school lol). I will most definitely support them as well, and I agree with above posts that it would be a great idea to integrate them into this site and so a group/annual subscription fee. I’m all in for that!

Keep up the fantastic work! I appreciate your dedicated work, along with everyone else involved in making this site run!

~Nico (goldenthunder)

Sadly, this “tutorial” should not have to be spoon fed to whining readers worried about $10 - $22. Knowledge is power. If anyone wants ancient, regurgitated information then they should go down to the public library, get a FREE library card and read old smelly books until their heart is content. If you want the latest, straightest, and greatest, you go down to the book store or log on to Amazon and BUY it. This site is the bomb. It is extremely easy to follow. And, it is the BOMB!!! So, complainers, pay your freaking dues or take the metro to your friendly, local public library where no one will hear you crying about $$$$hit. Rock on PSDTUTS!!!

Collis im greatly Honnered that you are half persian, its a great honor for us Persian to have such a skilled man,btw happy new year man, as you know its tonight,(sale khobi dashte bashi)

and btw about the blog im tutally agree with you, guys you all should be gratefull to Collis that he set the price to $9 monthly!!!!

this thing worth wayyy more than this!!! wayyy more than this,i know DVD’s that the quailitys are not as good as this with 9 tutarila including PSD’s files and guess how much they cost? $250 at least!

so guys be gratefull about the price and help the site to grow bigger and better for us,

best of lucks for dear Collis and Fabio.

i understand paying, but I believe $9/mo is just a bit too much. I would most likely sign up if it was $5/mo

Thanks for this awesome site and great article.

I do have a question…is there plans for making a sister site for Illustrator?

Thanks,

seriously, don’t worry about the negative comments. this site is a great resourece. if anything i feel bad for not chipping in for the psd files.

Since your site has only been up for a few months - doesn’t it make sense for people who are thinking of joining - to join as late as they can. Meaning - if i join now, I only get access to a few months worth of work. If I join later - more psd files will be available for me.

Maybe provide a better membership schema?

Just a thought.

You know what? I’ve gotten tons of great experience and I’ve learned so much from your site, and I’ve been one of those who never thanked you (though I do digg your posts!). So, THANKS. I can’t tell you how much I’ve learned from your wonderful tutorials.

I think PSD tuts Plus is a great idea, I’m shocked that people would actually complain that you charge for stuff! In fact, I’m amazed that, considering the amount of content you do put out, you don’t charge for the entire site.

In fact, it’s enough to make me sign up for the Plus service

I think that what you get for the cost is tremendous. And it will only improve over time. After running AiBURN.com for about 3 months now. I understand how time consuming writing tutorials and maintaining a site can be. And that site only receives a fraction of the traffic as PSDtuts.

That being said no one has to join Plus. So I don’t really see an issue here. For me, seeing Collis add a professional level to the site says that the site is not going away. How many sites dwindle because the owner couldn’t fund it. How many blogs don’t get updated. I’m really happy to see that this blog has a business model behind it. Its also interesting to see Collis trying different things until he finds a solution that works.

The Plus Solution is professional and takes the site to a new level. Its a proven business model that has worked for other sites. Since the addition of the Plus the number of free articles and tutorials has also increased. Funding means more great content for everybody. Its really a everybody wins solution.

I certainly respect others opinions. I just wanted to voice mine. Thx.

If you are gonna charge for content, do original content, not creating stolen content. Why should I pay for something you didn’t create?

Hey, I totally understand. I’m kind of in the same place as you. I LOVE creating websites and coming up with ideas, etc. However, since it is just a hobby for me, it’s hard to justify to my husband the monthly costs of something I do in my free time.

As a suggestion, perhaps adding the option to pay-per-tutorial, like $5 - $7. That way, they can buy just the tutorial, you make a little cut and they are not obligated to buy a subscription. I don’t think you would lose business — I think you would gain more as those who fear the subscription commitment wouldn’t be intimidated by this option. AND if you have two great tutorials a month, a person could end up buying both — that’s at least $10 a month, to $14 (better than just $9 or nothing).

But that’s just my two cents … best of luck!

Yo te apoyo, sigue asi!
Comprare una membresia en unos dias.
Saludos

When I saw this in my feed, I honestly felt bad. Unfortunately, people feel so entitled nowadays - what, with the Internet making everything so darn accessible, free, and easy - that they’re outraged when they’re faced with having to actually pay for high quality content.

Tell ‘em to suck it up.

Hi Collis, sad that you had respond to some of those comments that people made :o( I am a regular visitor to the site since last month and my skills have greatly improved at work!!….My supervisor and Production Manager have both given me compliments on the quality of my work and said I have improved (not that they were complaining before) :o) but from studying some your tutorials here, I have been able to add some skill sets to my arsenal in Photoshop!! You not only provide THE GREATEST FREE PHOTOSHOP TUTORIALS!!!, but you also provide some great links to some other major sites and tutorials out there!! and not to mention all the free advice :o) Keep up the good work Dude!!

I’m personally really happy paying membership to PSD+. You guys really deserve my monetary support, this site is great!

Actually a good read. Maybe I need sleep?!?! Seems like it could be on PROFITABLEWEBSITETUTS. Don’t stress about all the people who want everything for free. They’ve probably never actually PAID for Photoshop either.

personaly,100% support “making money”;though i ain’t a paid member…this is the best tutorial site i’ve ever seen during the years

as long as u keep track of your roots and wont let the plus tutorials steal all the attention. eventually u’ll end up with a free service ending up in a 100% pay service and a scam site. this is a common end for most free services on the net, from software to web pages. look at divx, started as free, ended up in a bundle scam pay for codec, winamp, napster. etc, the list can be done long. as said, keep track of your roots and the plus tuts to be something else, possibly more advance.

but. this whould’ve not been my first choice of trying to make a income on a popular webpag; handpicked adds whould’ve been more of a better choice, sponsors, sponsor held competitions.

anyways. good luck in the fututre, and hope it works out for ya.

thanks

$9 is cheap for what you give me.

If anything I would like to see a +Plus membership that gives favor to tutorial requests and access to questions and follow ups with the writers.

Either way, keep up the great work!

I think $9 a month is very affordable, thats lunch for me on some days. This is great work. I would like to see video tutorials though. Can you make that happen??????

Ignore all the freeloaders. If they don’t like it, they can go spend hours on Google searching for Photoshop tuts (which usually aren’t nearly as good).

$9/mo is nothing if you really get value out of a site & this is one of the best ones out there. A business is a business. Rock on!

Hi. I am agree with your rules. I just want that you permitt Visa Electron, Visa Cards.
I can’t pay with PayPal.

This is the best photoshop tutorial site on the net. Period. Full stop.

The vast majority of this site is absolutely free and you get some cool perks as a member. Does it really affect non-members that much? No. You guys still get tons of free content and consistently extremly high quality tuts that are pumped out at a phenomenal rate. If you ever check out Collis’ Eden website he mentions that PSDTuts stands out because of their commitment to quality-and it’s true people. Why there are complaints is beyond me.

I believe that if there is something that you use often and appreciate much you should give to it. I would give monetarily to PSDTuts even if I didn’t get anything back. This obviously puts me in the minority. Granted what I would donate would not be $9/month, but even so.

PSDTuts has over 15,000 readers. You become that big and you probably do want to start instituting something to bring in a little money. But even that institution is done in a way that, at least to me, is still fair to both the members and non. It’s not like at DA or something where adverts get in your way and become annoying after awhile, it’s done in a discrete manner.

And for all those people who argue the tutorial book side of things I argue right back. The tutorials on this site are some of the best, even better than most of the tutorial books I’ve come across and especially lately, the rate at which they are putting out material, in one year it will far exceed the amount in a tutorial book. Beyond that, we can get near instant feed back from the tutorial creators, and bonus: we sometimes get the opportunity to request a tutorial. You just can’t get those perks from a book or DVD.

I think that $9/month is worth every last cent. To those who feel that a lot of this site isn’t that relevant to you, that’s fine, it wouldn’t make as much sense for you to pay, you still get lots of great stuff for absolutely nothing.

Wow, this is much longet than I intended. And as a side note to Collis and co., even though I’ve never commented before I appreciate everything you guys do here. It’s awesome and amazing! I was looking for a quality Photoshop tutorial site for so long. I finally found this one and wanted to weep with joy.

And as another side note, if you ever did an all inclusive thing like with Flash and stuff I hope you’d do it like FlashDen and Audio Jungle will probably be. Then we could carry our Plus membership privileges across to these sister sites thus eliminating the problem of choosing between PSDTuts, FLATuts, and CSSTuts. Or whatever actually inventive names you would come up with *Shrug* Just an idea for the little black book.

I only can add my modest voice to agree with all the guys who said that PSDTUTS is the best tutorial website. Then it’s normal to pay for it. Thanks Collin and all the guest designers or the stuff you share!

The pb is that suddenly a whole tut became visible only for suscribers.
Before, you had to pay for the PSD. In other words, lazy ones had to pay.

This change is an important one. As PSDTuts make money from advertising and links placement. Don’t tell me every tut’ really need some go media arsenal or other stock material ?

I know maintaining a site this rich is hard and tricky and takes way too much time. I also know that free things are the opposite of freedom. But you should consider the downside of your business model changes: what seemed to be free is now charged !

Nono

Collis, I can hardly wait for the csstuts webbie
Let me know if you think I might be able to help with anything

hey man, PSDTuts is such a resource to me that i convinced my company to pay for the quarterly Plus. you do phenomenal work that provides good concrete and inspirational material that works as an excellent base for some of my designs.

from someone who was self-taught in graphic design, PSDTuts has gotten me to look at Photoshop in a different way at times, and that can’t ever be anything but good.

even if it were my own money, it’s such a small price for a brilliant service; i can’t see how anyone could complain.

I like psdtuts.com… I have a paypal account but no creditkart… please make the memberships e.g 2 month, 6month, 1year… so i can pay reguraly with my pp-account….

I can imagine how much work it takes to maintain a site like this. It’s hard to get it automated/ran by community while keeping the content professional and clean. I purchased the + for 3 months and I’m sure I’ll renew the subscription. I find this site very useful and I’m happy to get my hands on the .psd files Thanks!

i think its your right to get paid n the amount that you have fixed are pretty much low for such thing.. u shuld atleast chagre 15 $ but thats all ok as u are a master mind and you know better how to manage things
i hope and pray that you do the best in PSDTuts and all of your upcoming Great Projects:)

You do a fine job, and $ 9 are not a problem for the quality provided.

Thx for all

Hi Collis

I blogged about this a couple of days ago, as you probably know. What I have trouble understanding is how you can maintain *two* PSDTuts sites. What is the posting ratio between regular PSDTuts and Plus? How much more material are Plus members getting, and is it worth the spend?

I note the comments on this thread are much more positive than the previous one. I’ll add my voice to that - what you guys have done with this site is simply amazing. My Photoshop powers have grown exponentially as a result of the tutorials here. So, keep up the good work and good luck with your monetisation strategy!

Gerard

To those who ask why they have to pay. You have to pay because you have to pay for good work. You are here because there are unique things presented here and most of them are free and when you are asked for some money you guys start crying?. This is really disturbing.

That’s all about passion and business, a nice combination. But in the end it’s all about business. A clear and nice post

I think it’s always important to explain the “behind the curtain thing” to help people understand why we make decision to do that instead of that and so on…

You run a very nice site, very professional !

Cheers.

Daniel.

Hi. I understand where you are coming from, but unfortunately I just don’t see this system of paid subscription work for you guys. Pretty much every blog that makes decent money is ad supported. You guys should think of some better ways to integreate advertising. That will create a more stable income stream over time. You own lots of sites, it shouldn’t be too hard to connect with good advertiser.

Although I appreciate your work, blogs like these should remain free for the visitors.

My apologies if this comes off as arrogant, but I’d like to give a suggestion:

Your tutorials are exceptional. As a result you’ve clearly established enough trust in your reader base to warrant charging for additional content. You’ve cleared the biggest hurdle.

The problem you have is your demographic. The tutorials are SO detailed and SO specific they only really translate to the enthusiast – and the enthusiast doesn’t have (or won’t spend) their own money on tutorial content. It just won’t happen.

The subscriptions will come from people like me. People who can monetize the knowledge you have the ability to deliver. The sole web designer for a small or medium sized business who’s adept at Photoshop but lacks the skills to put the last 10%-15% into a design that makes our work look 30%-40% less professional than our far better funded mega-corporation competitors. Likewise for the one or two-man web design shops competing for contracts versus the big boys. WE are the guys who will pay for a subscription. Or even more likely, WE are the guys who will have our company pay for a subscription.

I subscribe to a site called SEOmoz that discusses search engines and optimization (and I promise you, I’m not affiliated with them). They provide a boat load of free content, but they also offer a $50/month or so ‘Pro’ subscriber option. That gives me access to a bunch of tools that I never use, some articles that I rarely use, and the ability to ask questions and read other ‘Pro’ subscribers questions and answers. It’s that functionality that is invaluable. The questions come from people in the same boat as me, asking the same questions I have or asking questions I haven’t even thought of yet – and getting valuable answers. It’s this functionality that allows me to tell our owner “Shut up and buy this subscription for me. It’s gonna help the business”.

I can’t ask our owner the same of your site. I love your tutorials but I can’t show my boss swirling stars shooting off a planet and say “See how this will help our site convert?”. Use your great, detailed tutorials to deliver masses of traffic… but provide a $10 or $20 a month ‘Pro’ service teaching me (preferably via micro tutorials) how to make the header image on a company site look better, or emulate something cool on seen on IBM’s website, or make my form submit button look more professional - based on people’s actual questions. Tutorials that I can take to my boss and say “Using these techniques I believe I can take our site’s conversion rate from 1.67% to 1.74% for a mere $20 a month”, and it’ll be paid for by my company no-questions-asked.

Give the thousands (perhaps tens of thousands) of people like me solutions to our work-based problems relating to Photoshop skills and you’ll see more subscribers. Make a page we can show to our boss that explains in detail how your subscriber tutorials can help a business’ website convert better and the subscriptions will pour in. That’s the demographic that will pay in my estimation, and I don’t think you’re targeting them yet.

That said, once again I love you tutorials you presently provide!

Yes they do make money from link placement etc., but Collis adressed that in his post. He doesn’t want intrusive advertising. It takes away from the quality of the site.

And beyond that a lot of the tutorial resources are free. They often use sxc.hu which is a completely free stock exchange site-he doesn’t get paid to mention them in his tutorials and GoMedia has high quality vectors and the ones mentioned in the tutorials are usually from the free sample packs.

And if someone is willing to put forth money for their favorite site, why shouldn’t they get a few extras here and there as a way of saying thank you. It’s not like it’s major portion of the tutorials produced are member only anyway.

Why should all the members only be the lazy ones who want the PSDs?

Good article Collis. I’m not a Plus member, but I have absolutely no problem with the subscription model, since there is still LOADS of amazing content on this site. It is by far the clearest, cleanest website about photoshop tutorials, and it is much easier to navigate than all the others.

Keep up the good work, that’s what I say - I may well join Plus in the future, but for now, I’m very happy with getting a lot of free stuff. I certainly don’t expect it all for free, and you have got to make money somehow.

I appreciate you taking the time to explain this, and I think you don’t need to show the statistics. I find it someway not very professional, as someone else said.
Did you guys consider donations? I mean, I’m not into the 9$ / month thing, but I would be glad to donate some money to support your work.

I don’t know about the css one, actually there’s not so much to say, and maybe tutorials would easily become boring.
A flash tutorials site would be great, instead! You never stop learning with flash.

Cheers.

I wont read this, it isnt necessary!

Collis, will you stop apologizing for charging people and just do it man. Seriously people who know what value is will pay, people who downloaded Photoshop via Bittorrent yesterday will be thinking huh? I thought this was free.

Rock on man!

I cannot access to PSDTUTS PLUS… Could you help me please?

Collis keep up with the amazing job you’re making here.. and i’m waiting for your other projects.. with your site i improved so much.. thanx!!!

If Plus members section is 3$ by month I’ll pay, but 9$ is too expensive :s

I’m webmaster, I realize how much cash is consumed by bandwidth …
I’ve read all those comments, and I think You should think about:

a) Yearly subscription for + program - for example 6-7$ per month in eearly system (~$70-$85/year)

b) other payment methods … I suggest moneybookers - cheap to use, realy easy, avalable for most of countries I used it quite long - never had problems I know, that “paypal” is “recieve via credit card” too, but not everyone are able to pay via CC.

Dude seriously, I dont see why people are complaining. As for people saying its slightly on the high side, thats rubbish!

At the end of the day, your selling your skills just like a photographer sells his skills to take some awesome pictures. Its a specialist skill and with every specialist skill comes a price. Collis is doing the hard work for you people, he is taking the time to write 100% professional tutorials (not some 10 yr old kid in his bedroom). You cant buy these tutorials in books, design trends change too quickly for books to keep up.

Personally I find this website and god-send, its so much better than tutorialman, pslover etc. Because of the quality of tutorials that you provide! Where as other sites provide old, rewritten, same technique tutorials. I can safely say everything I have seen on PSDTUTS is 100% original.

Long live PSDTUTS, the webs no.1 tutorial website!

Good luck Collis! Your doing a great so far

Hey,

I’m a very loyal member of the psd-tuts thingy and I want to join the psd-tuts+, but I can’t!
I have no credit card for the online payment. Why I can’t pay with my actual credits on paypal?
I just want to join psd-tuts+!

It is time for a change. Time to realize that there is no difference between good content printed between two book covers and content presented on the internet. Nobody would ever start to argue with the clerk in his favorite bookstore about why the hell he does not give him the latest Kelby book away for free. Books have production costs, so does the development and maintenance of a service like psdtuts. And advertisement is definitely not the stable revenue fundament for a business like this, as it is volatile, time-consuming and sometimes dangerous to health…

The refrigerator of all the people involved in this “content business” needs to be filled in order to provide a service everybody is hungry for. Somebody argued that the price for the plus is to high in comparison with a world of warcraft subscription or a flickr membership. To be fair, one should compare apples with apples. What is the average price for a design-related book? 30-40 $. And what do you often get? Chapters and chapters full of basic explanations you didn`t expect to get for a book with the title “photoshop for professionals”…

A one-year subscription of psdtus plus costs a little more then two books but provides a lot more value. Think only of the .psd files. An example: When you are in the design business and you can save hours of valuable time because a plus tutorial is very helpul for the realization of a feature a customer requires, the subscription has paid off for the whole year!

So for those who have a limited budget for self-education its time to consider a shift from put-something-in-a-book-shelf-after-two-weeks to having-something-all-time-right-for-service-under-your-keyboard-fingers.

Well, for me the 9$/moth are a bit to much, but this only because I don’t really make a living out of design and webdesign. But I love your tutorials and I think the 9$ are really fair if you earn money out of design. Just think of it, add 9$ to to just one customer a month and you got your money for PSDtuts.
I don’t really see problem in the Plus model. If my wedesign experiments will grow I sure will subscribe for a plus membership!

Collis,

In the last few months since I discovered your site I have been improving my Photoshop-skills, thanks to your amazing tutorials. I understand fully that you want to monetize this site and you would be crazy not to do so! Keep up your fantastic work!

Thanks!

Hi, i don’t have an issue with members only content, my comment in the timemachine thread was simply about the post being promoted in the RSS feed.

This site is the best i have found so i will continue to read and view it, i will subscribe to the RSS feed too as long as it doesn’t get saturated with members only tuts.

So basically keep up the good work!

Long live tutorials, open source code, shareware and freebies! Any graphic designer, web developer or new media designer needs sites like this…

I don’t see the point of that people…. PSDTuts is one of the best photoshop tutorial sites. It can actually teach designers with great experience in photoshop something new, i think we need to be more gratefull. I’m not a subscriber but i understand why you do charge for some content. And like you said if you don’t want to pay you don’t need too. So please stop whining about paying for the extra content guys…. or just go and visit some other site with also high quality content, where you don’t have to pay. Buti’m afraid there isn’t a site like that.

Keep up the good work Collis, i appreciate your work and i wish you the best of luck in the future.

Hi Collis, i just want to echo most of the comments on here and say you are doing a great job, you do indeed have a fantastic product here, i have been waiting on a site like this for so long. I do think it is sad that even after all your hard work and dedication you feel the need to explain yourself to the community. I totally appreciate why you did this but just know that the majority of users really appraciate what you are doing.

Keep up the good work, this site has been getting better and better over the last couple of weeks.

All the best,

das_1980

I wouldn’t pay much heed to those who choose to moan about paying a few bucks for your excellent tutorials.

This is a great resource for those who wish to advance their skills, and $9 isn’t that much really considering what you pay on other sites such as lynda.com etc…

Keep up the good work!

I see (and appreciate) your point and you not only have a right to break even from you put into the site but you have the right to profit from it too. Some people feel that they should get everything for nothing. Thats Bo****ks!
However, $9/month, for me is a little expensive, that works out @ over €100 per year. I’d consider subscribing if the price was lower.

This site has helped me out a lot and if paying the membership fee allows you to make other cool tutorial sites…. WORTH IT

I stand by what I said in the other topic. (The timewarp one) thanks

Oh man - I feel bad you had to go into all that. I totally understand why you had to charge for a premium membership - I still get so many more techniques then I could ever use for free. It makes complete sense - and thank you for this site - it really has taught me a lot!

This is a great site and i know what you mean about how much a web site costs to keep running as I run my own which in property site although im a designer at heart and yes web advertising is not easy.

I think this site is one on the best ive seen and very professional which is very cool, great job and yes I will join.

a few comments i would make is

1) I would look for a new web host and look for one that has unlimited bandwidth which will save a lot of money! there are a few out there not sure in the usa.

2) on the home page I would have only one or two tutorials as a taster but without the psd and you update each month and each time you have a new tutorial you show the final Illustration and state you need to join to view them. So the idea is you get more people to join your site by creating an account with you and hopefully they will join your plus membership. but at the moment you are giving it away to easily, so why would anyone join?

Each month you could have a free tutorial with pds etc so it a gift so they keep coming back when they login. it does work!!!!

and to view other tutorials they need to pay membership maybe have it like a dating site does ie 1 / 6 / 12 month membership so if you choose 12 months in real terms its a lot cheaper than just one month.

At the moment $9 is quite a lot for not much, sorry to say that but its best to be honest, I know most will not agree with me, as on your site it states you upload two extra tutorials a month for tuts plus membership + the psd which does not seem that much I think $5 would be better and hopefully you will get more people to join with what I stated above.

I think there are many options for this site good luck

Collis….

I am currently a freeloader off of this site–and much of it is great!

This seems to have become of bit of a C&C thread so here are my comments…

I think you should work on getting a forum in here… this community is so strong already, it would be a great support system. With that, if you could have members get profile space to showcase their work it would be another benefit of joining. Also, perhaps contests based on tutorials. Like . . . here is the tutorial, now show us what you can do with it . . . and then have people vote.

Check out http://www.dpchallenge.com It is the best online photography site I’ve found, and I’ve recently become a member there for $25 a year. Huge community, and lots of talent. I think this site could very well be like that one, but more based on graphics and photoshop.

Good job on the site!

You have done a great job so far and I know you will in the next I hope 100 years.

This website is one of the greatest out there when it comes to Photoshop Tutorials.

One day I was really asking myself “How does PSDTuts make profit if they pay Tutorial Writers 125$ and charge only 2$ for the PSD file? A lot of people just read the tutorial and make exactly what they see because the tutorials here are so well explained that they don’t need to buy the PSD. So how does PSDTuts get the money to pay?”. This is why I think PSDPlus is a great system that Collis created and it will keep this awesome website and the community alive.

It is true that not all of us will have the possibility to join the PSDPlus system and take part in saving this great site, but we can at least do all we can and post some comments, visit the links here, maybe try and write some tutorials (some great ones that people will buy). Or I think this could be another great idea to tell friends, people or clients about this site and maybe PSDTuts will start making profit.

Just my thoughts.

The only thing I am sad about is that if Collis makes this system we will start missing him.

Take good care of you Collis and hopefully you will make a lot of great websites like this one.
Oh!… and let’s not forget the PSDTuts team.

If you have to explain it they probably won’t understand it. I bet this is one of those cases. Pros will know why your doing what your doing. If people don’t understand there are tons of low quality ad filled useless Photoshop sites out there.

Thank you for the work you put into this site. I think it is good enough to be a subscriber only based site. People are making money from your advice.

Hi Collis,

thank you for writing this post for it really helped me understanding that it shoud have been unnecessary. (I’m just a hobbyist so please forgive my misunderstanding.)
One thing that flashed into my eye was that you mentioned a “CSS tutorial site”. Are there any current plans to do this? I would love to see such a thing ’cause i’m planning on making more than just a hobby of my making of websites.
Oh, and thank you very much for PSDTUTS so far. It really got me going in many ways.

Collis, it must have been a waste of time for you to write this post for those who want everything for free.

People, do you realize that Collis could have written a very nice tutorial instead of this post?

Please stop complaining for this awesome site.

Keep up the best work, Collis.

Sorry … but this website is really great … really …. it is great because it’s free ! ! ! !
If you want to earn money … ok .. but it wouldn’t be the same for us.

psdtuts does an excellent job and i love your site. everyday or every other day you guys have good, fresh, useful & interesting content.

This site is awesome! I don’t care what other people think - I’m fine with the payed features. Even though I personally can’t afford them, I’m sure there are people out there who can. Thanks for taking the time to create and run this site, Collis!

By the way, I think it would be a *great* idea if you installed a forum onto this site. Comments are good, but nothing gives the feel of a community like a helpful forum. Just a suggestion, but I think it would be a great improvement!

I think that most people here can spend $0.30 cents every day.. It’s not a big deal.
This is a great site so this of the $9 as a contribution to it, without your contributions the site will go downhill and we don’t want that!

-Josh.

Dude, Im more than happy to pay for the quality content that comes from this site. You shouldnt have to explain yourself to all the free riders.

I think it is a great idea, and the moment I see a Plus tutorial I really want I will pay. Otherwise, keep up the great work!

If you can’t afford 9/month then you probably shouldnt have a computer to look at this site.. or let alone have photoshop.. or let alone have internet.. good lord… its soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo cheap. - get over it.

I have purchased the upgrade all tutorials on this site are amazing and top quality - best resource on the web and well worth the money - the trouble with the internet download generation they want everytihng for free - wen i were lad we payed for things lol

I didn’t even know you had a plus section! *very daft*. Im going to check it out right now though! I love you’re guys site, even though I pretty much just read everything through RSS

$9 a month isn’t worth the amount of content you produce. This site puts out great tutorials, but for me personally, it’s not worth the money.

I couldn’t have said it better myself. BRAVO!!! People aoften forget that websites cost money even the small ones. This is why Net Neutrality is become such a large issue and needs to be maintained.

I like the subscription model you’ve put together. Like your other site flashden it would be great to see some user generated tuts (only of the highest quality) be shared across users in the subscription area. This way you get the best of what is hear now but also can share amoungst each other as a members benefit.

I see no problem with a plus membership, and I’m very grateful for the quality of tutorials posted here free. Who knows in future I may even become a customer ! (more thank likely!)

Keep up the good work!

I totally agree!

You’re absolutely brilliant. I’ve never found such a helpful website, and I aggregate it in NNW.

I’m gearing up for the paid membership, but anyone that gripes about it can go troll around much crappier tutorials websites.

Keep it up!

Keep it up guys, you are doing a great job.

I’d be interested in contributing a few high quality tutorials - do you notify the writers if they aren’t accepted? I’d like to know if what I write is accepted or not so I can use it elsewhere if it won’t be used on PSDTuts. What’s your usual turn-around time from submitting the tutorial to approving it?

In the words of the great Robert Heinlein: TANSTAFL (there ain’t no such thing as free lunch).

What is free for us, somebody has to pay, either in time or in money.

The price is really inexpensive (even for me: I live in a third-world country, earning about 350 USD per month in my daytime job).

Thank you so much for this website, and the AWESOME quality of ALL your tutorials.

You needn’t have posted this mate. The free tutorials go far beyond those on other sites and will keep those who are new to PS and those who are looking for new ideas well pleased.

Those of us who have signed up, have done so with no quarrels. In fact the $9 price seemed a little odd, why not round it up to $10? but i think this is a reflection of you personal and business ethos, you charge a reasonable price for your service and dont try to f*c* people over.

Getting the tutorial files to play around with is worth the $9 alone.

I hope in future you are able attract more artists to the site to help inspire us all.

I even anticipate the price going up at some point…not for a little while mind.

anyways…back to the tutorials for me…

Ps. $9 = around £4… nice

I just want to add…

not having a forum…. actually makes this site seem like a small family, i am getting to know everyones names!! forums bring added admin…

might need to add that extra $ now!! hahaha

dont rush the forum… try and keep it …well….. homely and not massive like the other art sites.

just my thoughts.

This is the best “why users need pay” explanation i ever seen…. this site is awesome, best photoshop resource on the web. Really great job Collis, in this weekend i will made other tuturial.
Thanks and congrats…
bye.

sorry, once i start….

please please please dont start doing other software tutorials on this site. I love the fact that all i have to do is check my emails and i’ll have a tutorial for photoshop…i have many other sites i can go to for my flash etc…

love this site!!!!!

Lets everybody be united pay this money, and make this site better than ever,

Well said, Collis. Your sense of business is inspiring. I love this site, subscribe proudly and look forward to seeing what else you come up with. Best of luck with the business.

The knowledge given on this tutorials is more worth than 9$ they actually charge. Idealism isn’t possible anymore those days so be thankful that people exists who write such quality articles. I don’t accept people complaining about FREE stuff - do it better yourself and show this!

I am acutally not really in need for those tutorials but giving support back to such a community is what me did signing up for the plus member section. All you need to do is to think about your dailly habbits (smoke less, think about what you really need) and spent that money into KNOWLEDGE. This will be in your head as long as you’re alive. What do you need more?

Perfectly understandable, let psdtuts live on! As the best tutorial site on the net!

no explanation needed. I would pay that for a tutorial in how to use PShop as a supplement for my classes.

This is the cleanest most professional psd tutorial website on the net and the small monthly fee is nothing compared to the quality of material here. Keep up the good work

im getting my my moneys worth.

Hey, I have to compliment you on this and the site in itself. As long as you don’t make it based on Plus, where most of the tuts cost us non-Plus visitors, then I’d be fine with that.

Great Post! Can you make a new Tutsite on how to, Build a Site like PSDTUTS.com not to compete with you but to learn how to make your own CMS system!

Thanks,
Soon to be a Plus Member!

Nice post here and explanation. I can’t afford the $9 per month because I am from Malaysia and it cost me RM30 per month … But still, I wish this site can continue rock the http://www. I am doing my tutorials too but the posting is not so frequent as I have my permanent day job.

I was thinking to submit my tutorial here but seem like I am not that level yet. Collis, do you think I my tutorial can pass your evaluation? hehe…

I understand what you’re saying. I think everyone here know such projects also need money. Or do they? Long story very short and straight forward: I co-run the third biggest internet-youth-community in my country and never had to pay a penny (except for monthly server fee). Yet, it holds 17 000+ regular users.

How so cheap? Popularity pays. Everyone wants to be a part of this community. It’s collab with capital C. You have resources to use that way 10 times as better as we have.

You need money for yourself and your projects. So put most of your energy in that. But start a campagin for people to write PSDTuts themselves, for everyone. Like JPG magazine. Worrying about quality of tuts? Well if you screw it up, you can only blame yourself - it’s all about the way you put the campaign together. Start searching for rolemodels from deviantART, rasterized.org, phirebrush.org etc.

Only few people have made good money with tutorials. David Nightingale is one of them. Go and ask how he did it.

Too expensive. I can understand wanting to charge but a monthly fee seems out of line atm. A flat fee per tut might be better till you get up and running with more tuts, or even an option for either.

Geebus. I can honestly say this is truly sad if you have to justify WHY you have PSDTUTS Plus to those who are complaining about the 95% FREE QUALITY CONTENT. So what if there are a few +Tutorials that would cost $9/month. The rest are FREE.

Thanks for all the great work! Keep it up!

great article collis… thanks for sharing the information.

no creditcard…. no psdtuts PLUS!!!

“we try to be very professional about it… This isn’t a hobby site… PSDTuts is a business”

Then why make blog posts explaining these sorts of things? No professional business needs to explain why they need to make money.

@cain and collis: “Why don’t you make ONE superior tutorial site with flash, photoshop, etc.?”

No! Don’t do it! One reason that you may be overlooking when it comes to the popularity of your website is the fact that it is very specific content aimed at a niche audience, and it delivers the goods quite successfully. That is why we keep coming back. Also, the name “psdtuts” is kind of a brand in itself, and I expect to find Photoshop tutorials with a site named that.

Instead, stick with your plan of a family of CSS, Flash-related partner sites.

I just understand this whole “plus” think. Why should I have to pay to learn how to do something… or to get a great technique that someone perfected and took the time to create and post. I mean if anything is on the internet it should be free!

*End Sarcasm

The plus makes sense, its like istockphoto or something, you get great stuff at low prices… no one complains about having to pay a couple bucks for photos now do they? (well some do)

I think the reason why people are not so happy is because its not the norm to pay for tutorials… so many hundreds of sites give them away for free and quality is not a priority. So when someone finds quality grade tuts they want them free too.

Stay Strong!

This is a way more patient and thorough explanation than what I thought all the whining has warranted:

“Shut up.”

Kudos for being the bigger men. Good luck with the business!

Money makes the world go ’round, and this is America! Well, sort of. Thanks a million for finally creating a clean place where all of us can improve our design skills absolutely free! (if we’re cheapskates) Seriously, you can’t have your cake and eat it too; there’s no such thing as a free lunch, even for you. So on with Plus!

I also will contribute to make this site bigger, because al stuff its professional!! But strange that some people dont have to pay 9$ per month an they have photoshop and stuff like that, that costs more than 1000$+..!!!

Collis,

your site is HANDS DOWN the best photoshop tutorial site I have ever seen! Not only do you have AWESOME content, but you have it regularly. I can’t tell you how much this is appreciated!

As far as making your money, I think you should put some of the more cool upcoming tutorials on the PLUS page, since that will convince people that if they want the good stuff, they can pay a nominal fee. I love all your tutorials, but the Time Machine Icon is not as impressive as the all the others that I love so much. I think that if you placed some(not all) of the better tutorials on the PLUS area, then more people will sign up there. As far as all the ungrateful and cheap people that complain about having to pay money, there would still be plenty of great free tutorials for them.

As far as the Flash tutorial and CSS Tutorial site ideas, I think they’re GREAT! If you implement this professional, clean, high-quality style to those sites, you could rule the tutorial world!

I appreciate you providing free resources on the internet and I understand you need to make money. But let me provide a few points:

1. Your price is too high. $9/month = $106/year. That’s more expensive than NAPP and ComputerArts Magazine. Those websites currently provide more resources than yours. Start with a lower price then increase it as your website gets more tutorials. 1000 subscribers at $1 is better than 100 subscribers at $10 because it gets you more exposure.

2. Put some advertisements on your website. Unlike what you may think, we don’t get pissed off and say that we’re never visiting this site again because there’s ads. If people really get pissed off at ads, they probably already use Adblock.

3. Paying to download PSD files will not work as I expected. Nobody wants to go through all that hassle of paying just to download a PSD file. We rather look at ads (see #2) than to go through the checkout process.

4. There’s a reason why almost all the Photoshop tutorial sites have ads. That’s because it’s the only way. Some tutorial sites can provide PSD files, actions, brushes, and other resources because they have ads on their site.

5. The only ad that is annoying are popups and flashy ones with sound. Just don’t display those ads. Have you been to digg.com? Some of their ads from Microsoft look professional and are not annoying. I actually clicked on a few of them because I found it interesting.

The fact is that the tutorials are not unique. Don’t want to pay for the “plus” tutorials? Google it. As long as the site are not unique and _the_ best i’m just glad others made similar stuff for free.

Colin, I think Computerarts subsidises its website through the sale of its magazine? And even that has a huge amount of advertising in it…their advertising sections are getting bigger!

I think if this site can carry on running as it is with the number of people it has subscribed increasing gradually then i’m happy with that.

If those of us who can afford to or choose to pay do so knowing happily that there are some users getting things for free then thats fine.

Even those that pay get to use the free stuff.

So if you dont pay, what are you missing out on? an extra tutorial every two weeks? so big loss if you havent finished all the free tutorials. The PSD files? well you can do almost all the tutorials with your own files..which i think is the idea anyways…we dont want everyone posting the same image on flicker?

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING ABOUT THIS SITE!!!! NOT FOR AS LONG AS POSSIBLE ANYWAYS.

CHEERS

Adsense!
is the only way!

For those who still don’t seem to understand:
If you think plus isn’t worth $9 a month, you don’t join plus. If you think it’s worth it, you do. Simple as that. But if you don’t join plus, stop talking about how you could get a tutorial book for $50 dollars. If you think that’s better than PSDTuts, buy yourself a nice tutorial book for $50 and stop wasting your and other people’s time.

you should implement a paginator. So people don’t have to scroll 10km down here and write comments. I write here today, knowing and envying the awesome business you created. And wish the best of the best.. people $9 bucks is nothing for what you are learning.. cheaper than a 2-3 year career at university.

Cheers.

what can I do without a credit card??

Iris has it spot on… this should be moved to the top so its the first thing people see after the original post.

” For those who still don’t seem to understand:
If you think plus isn’t worth $9 a month, you don’t join plus. If you think it’s worth it, you do. Simple as that. But if you don’t join plus, stop talking about how you could get a tutorial book for $50 dollars. If you think that’s better than PSDTuts, buy yourself a nice tutorial book for $50 and stop wasting your and other people’s time.”

Thank you, godonholiday

Hi fellows,

Thou i’m not a paid owner yet i still think that a paid feature is a great thing. I rather would recommend PSDTUTS put up not intrusive ads like Adsense or like that. Most of the membership sites like gamespot, cheathappens remove ads after a member gets a paid membership, so if the visitors are not a paid member ads will come.

Good content no matter how many ads you put! will always attract people.

Thats all. For the people who thinks $9 is too much. (spend less on pron)

I love this website and appreciate the work invested in it - this is why I’ve registered to the PLUS program. This is my way of saying thank you, and as long as I can I will continue my membership although I do not “really” need it.

Please continue your excellent work, Collis, and don’t get discouraged by the cheap.

Roy

took me awhile to read through all these posts
and i’m not commenting on the ‘need to pay’ because nothing is really (basically) free in today’s time. i find the grumbles/complains over the top. i haven’t really tried going to the ‘plus’ so i won’t comment on the quality

You’re tutorials are amazing.. and I should say they are worth it even if you make it “Paid”.

You’re tutorials are amazing.. and I should say they are worth it even if you make it “Paid”.

In Germany you could say:”Eure Armut kotzt mich an!” (”your poverty pisses me off”- or sth.)

What i want to say is, many of us visitors of this Site are poor dogs that cannot afford membership, since its a monthly subscription, which means you have to worry, whether your nine bucks are better spent for IMPROVEMENT or for NUTRITION…
But nonetheless, this is the f****** BEST photoshop-site I ever came across!
I think there is plenty of knowledge to gain on this site for newbies as me, as well as for definitely more experienced photoshoppers. Since you offer a great bandwidth of difficulty levels, as well as well explained tuts, and this constantly, I do ask myself, if I have to feel bad that I do not (yet) have the money to support this site with someting U$€FUL!

Honestly Guys, Your site rocks, your tuts rock, keep up the good work and charge for it!
( and keep the free stuff comimg as well, so we poor dogs can learn and improve , and earn more money, so we can go PLUS, as well!
Great site!

I have to admit - I keep coming back here because the content is free. If it were not free, then I’d likely not be bothering with the site.

Like an earlier person posted, I utilize this site for work building various skills with some fun tutorials, but if I were to get serious about actually paying for the site for business related projects, I’d need more than sparkly rainbows on a cloud to convince my employer it’s worth the cost to the business to pay for tutorials that to most business suits looks like stuff people would do to pin up on their fridge. ARTISTS, of course, recognize the value - but BUSINESS SUITS do NOT. And the business suits are the ones with the cash.

I agree with another person’s post. If you’re not seeing much profit from online advertising, then you’re doing it wrong. Successful advertising is possible, and if anything, you should use what money you’re gaining now from the Plus content site and use it towards hiring a professional or three or four who’s sole purpose is selling online advertising to assist you with your site.

BittBox, for instance, does a wonderful job with their advertising. They don’t necessarily provide a lot of tutorials, but the site’s brainchild gives away his own free content in the form of free vector graphics, photoshop brushes, etc. Items that ALSO took him time to punch out. Some of his brushes have even been spotted in use with TV productions. He doesn’t ask people to subscribe to download his brushes and vector images, though. He has advertising. And, I will honestly say, it doesn’t look like hell, either. I’m sure he gets to hand-pick what’s going to show on his site and what will not.

I understand the need to bring in money to pay for updated content and bandwidth use. I agree it’s needed. But pulling the rug out from under all the people who came here because they googled “FREE photoshop tutorials” is going to shoot your site in the foot in the long run - especially if you go entirely pay only.

But I don’t think you’re going entirely pay only, which is also nice. And I think for the time being, you have a good solution and you’ll get money from your die-hard enthusiastic fans who are paying more because they like you as a person.

So, yeah. I personally thank you for keeping much of the content free.

i think 9 per month is a lot…
i would pay 25 per year or something….

anyways good job

well, paying for all those excellent tuts its ok, im already a plus member, but you need to add more content and one of a kind tuts for your plus members, just 2 tuts and a layers sample its not what im waiting for, plus 22 its to much right now…

John wrote:If you can’t make enough off of ads you need to hire somebody who knows how to monetize using ads.

^Exactly. I understand it’s a business and you need to make money as it is a time consuming venture, however don’t betray the people who support you.

This once passionate PSDTuts user is no more.

/sad

This website is an excellent resource for me, and appreciate the free tutorials that you publish. It’s quite reasonable to create a paid membership section, and I hope that you do have many subscribers, so that this can all stay afloat. I would subscribe, but I’m pretty cheap, and trying to go to college. I’m also glad that you haven’t forgotten the guys like me, who use this source just about every day.

GL HF DD
Thanks.

I have purchased the upgrade with no quarms - long live psdtuts

Shouldn’t this argument be the other way around???

the people who pay should be asking why others are getting things for free??? LETS MAKE THEM ALL PAY!!! ahhh but wait…no thats right, we dont care…we like the fact that this site is 80% or higher free!!

No one who pays has even suggested this idea as we believe in what this site stands for. COMMUNITY, FAIRNESS, GREAT STANDARD OF PRODUCT

or at least thats what i get out of being here.

ever…

Hey guys, keep up the good work.

This site deserve the best I’ll pay. Very good tutorials for sure.

Hello,

This is my first post on this site. Until now I was one of those guys who come here because the content and the quality of tutorials are great. But after reading your post, I have decided to be an active participant on this site as much as time allows me to do so, I would love to write good tutorials now and than, any thing really to keep you guys going, I know you guys are working hard to get this going and it is a damn hard work. You guy keep up the good work and more of us should be a plus members to keep this going and encourage you guys to do more for this community.

hey i understand y we should pay but i don’t give out my credit card detail so im stuck at will just have 2 figure out how 2 make the time machine logo by myself

“I have purchased the upgrade with no quarms - long live psdtuts”

same here, I think it’s important and is the right way to keep the site alive.
I want MORE, and willing to pay for it

I pray for more people like Roni… :))

I certainly understand the need to have a “Plus” section, and eventually I will get on board and pay soon. Nine dollars a month is certainly better than the 1200 dollars a semester I paid to learn basic Photoshop skills that I already knew.

I would love to subscribe for “Plus”, but I don’t have a creditcard and I can’t get one….so what to do????

I love the site and all but to me is it even going to be worth it to spend the $9 a month. I think that is a pretty steep price compared to other services and lets say magazine subscriptions. How much extra is in the plus membership. You say that only a couple more psd’s and once in a while extra posts. If I am going to spend $9 a month to read blog type tutorials I want to make sure there is going to be something something posted every couple of days that will really benefit me in my inspiration and skills. And no I wouldn’t want others who don’t pay to get these for free.

All the knowledge has a price, and if you want to learn more about Photoshop and this site need your support to still online and can teach you more about design why not to pay for it, there are to many people who need this site so support it…

Hi Collis!

I am a frequent PSDTUTS visitior. I wanted to join as + member. I am from Pakistan, Paypal does not offer its services in Pakistan and I dont see any other option, even If I choose to pay by credit card, It retains the same country list. Are you not open to Pakistan?

Nice post man… I’m a daily French Canadian visitor of PSDTUTS and I did every tutorials posted since 1 or 2 months plus I can practice my english by reading the interview or other posts. I also think to get the Plus Member but I wasn’t sure of what it gave more then “non-member”. And there is the fact that I will be 18 only this summer ( July 20th ) so that’s make I don’t have a credit card and my mother doesn’t want me to subscribe to everything with here credit card!

Keep going I like it and I’ll probaly be able to subscribe to Plus Member this summer.

9$ —> To learn something you like on PSDTUTS
about 20$ —> To play Wow ( CAN $ to Euros ) and learn nothing but losing time ( Ya I stopeed wow now ! )

- BoneZ

I understand your needs and there’s nothing wrong offering a pro subscription.
Your tutorials are great: definitely one of the best resources on the web.

After read this post by Collis , I am feel sorry. Because I am this kind people “95% of the content is totally, completely, don’t pay a cent, free as the air you breathe. If you don’t want to, you can come to this site, learn a ton about photoshop, never say thanks, never pay us anything, never click an ad, never stumble or digg a post, never contribute a tutorial, never even lift a finger except to click away at the end, and you know what will happen …. nothing.” as Collis say.
I am feel sorry, because I visit PSDTUTS everyday since last year. Plus membership is a great idea to keep PSDTUTS to running, it’s cost is fair. I will join Plus membership soon, because I wish you to apologize me.
I will try to earn more money to pay the plus membership, although it’s really a big burden for me (because of the currency of my country is lower. T_T ). But I will try my best.

Its all love guys, your stuff rock!!

I think admin have to spend a lot of time and his knowledge on each tut, so 9$ per month is too cheap!

I’d like to know if you can pay for only one month. I am trying to sign-up but on my paypal page, it shows that “future” payments will be drawn from my credit card automatically. I don’t want to be a member for life here you know…

anybody can help me out ?

I’d like to know if you can pay for only one month. I am trying to sign-up but on my paypal page, it shows that “future” payments will be drawn from my credit card automatically. I don’t want to be a member for life here you know…

anybody can help me out ?

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Wow, this site chews through terabytes of bandwidth a month! People, you’re getting high quality tutorials including the project files for them as well (if you’re too lazy to follow along). The price is fair. And as has been said, the server rarely goes down and never runs our of bandwidth. Be grateful that you’re not paying more for such a site.

9 dolars is not much, and its great cant down the file, dont put atention to that comments,

O.K i to won money with my blog thats not bad