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Tuts+ Marketplace Tutorial Competition Winners: $1500 Cash and Additional Prizes Scored

Posted: 07 Jan 2011 06:05 AM PST

Today we announce the three winners of the Tuts+ Marketplace Tutorial Competition. Combined, they take home more than $1,500 worth of cash and additional prizes. Take a look to see if your entry came out on top. Also, learn about one of our new tutorial price points that make it easier for a tutorial to be accepted onto the Tuts+ Marketplace.

Winning Tutorials and Prizes Scored

1st Place Winner: wizylabs

The Winning Entry: Create a Universal Slider Manager in WordPress.

This video tutorial is priced at $7 USD, already has numerous sales, and is rated highly.

Description: In this video tutorial you will be learning how to create a very basic slider manager in WordPress. You can use the technique that you will learn from this tutorial to create more powerful slider managers for your WordPress themes or even plugins as I did for both of my themes on ThemeForest Space and Xero.

This tutorial shows methods used in the creation of this ThemeForest item Space Creative Personal & Blog WordPress Theme.

1st Place Receives:

$700 USD (cold hard cash paid via Paypal or Moneybookers)
Free Bona Fide Wufoo account for life (worth a lifetime of rainbows)
6 Month’s Miva Merchant Boutique Plan (Worth $360)
1 FREE year of FreshBooks (worth more than $200)
Ultimate Vector Collection 3 (worth $169.99) from GoMedia Arsenal
10,000 email credits (worth $100) from Campaign Monitor
One Year Membership to Tuts+ Premium (worth $78)
$50 Moo Voucher
Digging Into WordPress PDF (worth $27) by Chris Coyier

2nd Place Winner: Spectrum

The Second Place Winning Entry: Design a Print-Ready Retro Business Card.

This tutorial is priced at $2 USD and already has some sales kick-stared.

Description: Retro Business Cards became very popular, it looks like it is hard to create them, but in this tutorial you will learn the techniques and you will see the process. You are also going to learn how to create a print-ready business card in Photoshop. Designs made for printing have to be prepared in a special manner. Before sending to the printer, its best to make sure that your file is ready so you can avoid all the hassle of redesigning.

This tutorial shows one how to create the GraphicRiver item Classic Retro Business Card.

2nd Place Receives:

$500 USD (cold hard cash paid via Paypal or Moneybookers)
Free Bona Fide Wufoo account for life (worth a lifetime of rainbows)
3 Month’s Miva Merchant Boutique Plan (Worth $180)
Ultimate Texture Collection (worth $119.99) from GoMedia Arsenal
6 months FREE of FreshBooks (worth more than $100)
10,000 email credits (worth $100) from Campaign Monitor
One Year Membership to Tuts+ Premium (worth $78)
$30 Moo Voucher
Digging Into WordPress PDF (worth $27) by Chris Coyier

3rd Place Winner: RubenBristian

The Third Place Winning Entry: Create an XML Slideshow with the Ken Burns Effect.

This tutorial is priced at $2 USD and is based on a high selling file.

Description: With almost 2000 sales at the time of writing, this is the best selling “ken burns slideshow” on ActiveDen. The original version(AS2) was released in 2009 and the reinvented version(AS3) was released in 2010. This tutorial will show you how to create a slideshow with this great pan & zoom effect, from scratch, in Actionscript 3.0

This tutorial is based on the best selling ActiveDen file: XML Slideshow with Ken Burns Effect.

3rd Place Receives

$300 USD (cold hard cash paid via Paypal or Moneybookers))
Free Bona Fide Wufoo account for life worth a lifetime of rainbows)
3 Month’s Miva Merchant Boutique Plan (Worth $180)
Ultimate Texture Collection 2 (worth $119.99) from GoMedia Arsenal
6 months FREE of FreshBooks (worth more than $100)
10,000 email credits (worth $100) from Campaign Monitor
One Year Membership to Tuts+ Premium (worth $78)
Digging Into WordPress PDF (worth $27) by Chris Coyier
$20 Moo Voucher

New Tuts+ Marketplace 2$ Tutorial Price Point

Both the second and third place winners above are marked at a $2 price point. We’re looking for more entries at this newer price point. This is for tutorials that are are high quality short form tutorials. This price point opens allows our reviewers to accept tutorials that are around 10 minutes or so in length for videos, or only around 1000-1500 words (roughly 10 steps).

If you’re interested in contributing a tutorial to the Tuts+ Marketplace, then this price point is an excellent first step. Try your hand at putting together a high quality short form tutorial. Learn more about Uploading to the Tuts+ Marketplace. We have numerous price points that increase based on the exclusivity, format, length, and quality of the tutorial.

Big Thanks to Our Sponsors

Wufoo

The premier online form builder. If you need to collect information on the internet, then this is the service to use. I’ve met quite a few guys on the team at the Front End Design conference in Tampa – great group of guys. They have a top-notch product and awesome customer service.

Miva Merchant

Miva Merchant’s flexible and powerful e-commerce shopping cart software is perfect for small business owners looking to grow their online business.

GoMedia Arsenal

Throughout the years, they’ve developed a large library of design elements such as vector art, textures, fonts, brushes, etc. We’ve called it our “arsenal” of design weaponry. This design agency regularly teaches on their blog GoMediaZine, is awesome to work with, and has incredible design elements available in their Arsenal.

FreshBooks

Freshbooks is painlessly easy to use. It’s strait-forward software done right. I’ve been using them for more than a year now and it’s been awesome for tracking expenses and invoicing. Many of our regular freelancers use Freshbooks and it’s the online invoicing app we recommend on a regular basis.

Campaign Monitor

Campaign Monitor offers everything a designer needs to run successful email marketing campaigns for themselves and their clients. You can even rebrand the interface, create sub-accounts for your clients and let them send their own campaigns.

Moo

They print custom Business Cards, MiniCards, Postcards and more. Upload your own logos and artwork or choose from our templates. They deliver to 180 countries (and counting) and we’ve used them before. The quality and flexibility of using this service is awesome.

Digging Into WordPress PDF by Chris Coyier

There is much to learn about the World’s most popular publishing platform. Digging into WordPress is nearly 450 pages of taking you from your first steps of learning about WordPress all the way through maintaining a site throughout the years.

Tuts+ Premium Program

If you’re enjoying our Tuts+ sites, you’ll love Plus. For a low monthly fee you’ll get access to an exclusive members site complete with hundreds of source files from all your favorite tutorials, special Plus-only tutorials that everyone else doesn’t get and regular bonus downloads of vector and brush packs, layer styles, tools and more.

Tuts+ Marketplace

If you’re enjoying our Tuts+ sites, you’ll love our selection of Premium tutorials available for individual sale. With the same quality as our Premium tutorial program, you can buy any of our Premium tutorials individually, as well as tutorials you can only find on the Tuts+ Marketplace. You’ll be hard pressed to find a place to buy such high quality tutorials at such affordable prices.

AE Miami Synthesis Seminar

Posted: 07 Jan 2011 12:00 AM PST

Just because you didn't get to go to that awesome conference doesn't mean that you can't still watch the lectures! Each weekend, we'll feature a recommended audio lecture on Audiotuts+.

This video is from the SAE Miami Synthesis Seminar in September 2010. The speaker is Mikey Cupino. He covers soft synths in detail, starting with Massive.