In the last three years our Envato Marketplaces (FlashDen, ThemeForest, GraphicRiver, AudioJungle and VideoHive) have grown like gangbusters, with big communities, huge libraries of files and lots of activity. So when we set out to redesign them earlier this year everyone on the team knew it was going to be big. What we didn’t realise was HOW big it would eventually get! Today it gives me great pleasure to show you …

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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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It’s been a hectic 3 days for us here at Envato. We’ve had a massively successful Birthday Bundle (over 5,000 sales in 3 days), lots of giveaways, a fantastic Tuts+ tutorial set up for free download and our first video interview. Here in the office we’ve also been celebrating today with a big lunch and lots of network gaming! With the birthday all wrapped up now though I thought I’d give you a very quick preview of what’s coming up in September…

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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 $19.

One of the best things about working here at Envato is that we have an awesome team of people building, managing, writing, reviewing and working on our sites. Yep, things have come a long way since the early days when there was just a few of us trying to do everything!

Recently our awesome Tuts+ interviewer Emil asked if I minded being video interviewed with some questions put forward by the Psdtuts+ readers. Since no-one really wants to see my enormous head on screen for too long a period of time, I asked my lovely wife and partner in crime Cyan if she’d be in on the interview and we thought we’d put up the video to help celebrate 3 years of Envato.

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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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It’s here, Envato’s 3rd birthday officially starts right now with our MASSIVE marketplace Birthday Bundle now available. In a few hours the first Tuts+ celebrations will begin also, but first take a look at the fantastic offer we have going for 3 days only on the Envato Marketplaces.

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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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It was back in 2006 that Envato first launched with our very first site FlashDen. That means next week we’ll be turning 3 years old! Since web years are much like dog years, by my count that makes us pretty darn old. Given how we’ve grown, we’ve decided that this year it’s time we really kicked our celebrations up a notch. Next week for 3 days we’re going to have a massive sequence of birthday events, read on to find out what’s happening …

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Starting this month, Envato (the people behind Tuts+) will be giving away one free professional quality file from each of their marketplaces. This month you can download a gorgeous Modern Web UI Set, an AS2 XML Photo Gallery, a pack of 8 audio logos, a ‘Nice & Clean’ website template and a very cool After Effects Project File. You don’t need to sign up or jump through any hoops. Each file is very easy to download. Hit the jump to grab what you want!

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