Celebrating the Launch of GIFtuts+

Celebrating the Launch of GIFtuts+

on Mar 31st 2010 with 120 comments

Today we’re pleased to introduce the newest member of the Tuts+ family: GIFtuts+. We’ll be publishing tutorials and video training on creating gorgeous animated GIFs in Photoshop, Ulead GIF Animator and Microangelo. If you’ve ever wanted to freely learn how to create ornamental animated GIFs and impressive navigational graphics for Web Pages, now is the time to start! Hit the jump to learn all about GIFtuts+ and check out the newest site in the Tuts+ Network family.

We care about GIFs

Happy artist.

Creating GIFs is a topic that we often get asked about. Whenever we’ve published a tutorial on creating GIFs on Psdtuts+, like our Animated Snowman Tutorial, it’s been very popular. We thought it was about time we gave this in-demand but under-served aspect of design education its own dedicated Tuts+ site!

Giftuts+ Logo

Here’s a sneak peek of what the site will have to offer in the coming weeks:

  • How to Create Hellish Animated Flaming Skulls
  • How to Make a Slick ‘Under Construction’ Sign
  • Make a Blood-spattering Stick-figure Animation

We want to take a moment to thank our team of developers and designers for all their hard work on the new site: Derek, Fred and Ryan, thanks guys!

Cowboy on computer.

Enough talk… it’s time to get moving and visit GIFtuts+!

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And… our newest Envato marketplace

    Pointing hand.
  • Tying in with the launch of our newest Tuts+ site we’re also debuting a new Envato marketplace to a select group of Beta testers. If you’re interested in making passive income from your GIFs – meaning you make a GIF once, then sell it many times – we have an exciting announcement for you.

GifHole is looking for talented animated/static GIF artists to help set the standard for a new online GIF marketplace. Envato (the makers of Tuts+) are developing this site for all those who are looking for quality GIF stock and those who want to become authors in this field and earn money by selling their work online, again and again.

Giftuts+ Logo

GifHole will complement the existing Envato marketplaces: ActiveDen, AudioJungle, ThemeForest, VideoHive and GraphicRiver.

Flaming Skull

 
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  • Stoian Kirov

    OMG You got me…. :D:D:D

  • http://www.am-creations.fr Mathieu

    Poisson d’avril !!

  • http://wpcanyon.com Slobodan Kustrimovic

    Good one, but i expected to laugh in the comments (there are always people that don’t get it), but no one took the bait :)

  • http://becreativemagazine.com Patrik

    Awesome April fools! :P :D

  • David Ferguson

    Ok wow, I wasn’t thinking about April Fools Day.

    I read this and I think my jaw hit the floor and was thinking, wtf you’ve got to be kidding me?

  • ratnushock

    Damn it! It was so awesome to be real..

  • Ihab Khattab

    one of the coolest marketing ways I’ve ever seen

  • http://jameskonik.com JamK

    Ha ha, great stuff!

  • http://blurkness.com/ blurkness

    huahauha fail april fools? “Skellie on Mar 31st 2010″??? hauhauha :D

  • Fynn

    Haha nice joke guys!

    I love the cowboy! gonna put it in my theme-forest template :D

  • Anthony Cook

    Wow that is epic! lmao!!!

  • http://www.nukleo.fr Erik

    made me smile this morning, thank you!

  • infocyde

    The flaming skull is very impressive. Thanks.

  • http://www.etabrizi.co.uk Emyr Tabrizi

    Quality! hahaha

  • http://www.BertrandLirette.com Bertrand

    How you could you NOT put the classic mailbox with the little flag!? I want this tut pleeeeease!! XD

  • w1sh

    Thanks for the tut! Can’t wait to try this out!

  • http://www.baidu.com/s?wd=SEO%C6%E6%C9%D0 SEO工具

    支持个！继续努力！

  • http://www.skrinakcreative.com Kyle

    That is a BRILLIANT April Fools post — thanks for the laugh!

  • http://www.jordanwalker.net Jordan Walker

    lol … cowboy creative!

  • http://prop-14.com Randy

    I personally believe use of GIF’s will surely be the death of Flash and other so called “animation” programs.

    Next to frontpage97-tuts, this might end up being my favorite.

    ha!

  • Daniel S

    Hahaha you make me lough, guys! I was surprised first to the the flashing gifs and the Comic Sans MS font in the teaser. My first thought: “Are you serious”? :D

    Btw: I’d like to see the “HTML 4 Frameset for Beginners” in near future!

  • Eric

    ROTFLOL…good one but can you please include a tutorial on making that little white dog run back and forth at the bottom of my browser window?? :-P

  • http://christophersmoak.com Christopher Smoak

    This is great. I cant wait to design some sweet animated GIFs and throw them up on my 90′s style website.

  • http://www.martoosterveld.nl Mart

    Ow yeah let’s go retro :P

  • http://kibondo.tumblr.com Kibondo

    Hur… Hur… Hur.

  • Christophor S. Wilson

    NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL

  • http://codecrunchers.net Kevin Groenendaal

    I fail.

  • http://beautifulemails.com Beautiful Emails

    Nice LOL!!

  • http://www.disenews.com Martin

    ja, ja, nice!

  • http://www.jeffadams.co.uk Jeff Adams

    best april fools ever loooooooooooooool

  • http://2fanofsports.blogspot.com/ Akbar

    NO DOUBT !!!!!!! LOOOOOOOL !!!!!!!!

  • http://www.podemski.info Krystian

    I wait for it since 90`s!!! Revelation! Awesome news! Good luck with project!

    :P

  • wanyax

    And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why I love the 1st of April so much. XD

  • http://www.allthingswebdesign.com Flom

    When i saw this post i was like WTF? Nice one.

  • http://www.twitter.com/umaar Umar

    I think we can all agree GIFs are the future of the internet, I just hope the HTML5 spec has some tags for it,

  • http://nike1.se/ Nike

    I almost shit my pants until i saw some comments saying it’s an April fool, damn! Hahaha, though, i have to admit! :) Creative Sessions, actually sounds really good. Look forward to it :D

  • http://facebook.com/AhmadFawazAmin Ahmad Fawaz Amin

    At first I taught this was real… but I taught it was a little crazy to build a site and marketplace around it.

  • Toweleeiee

    I literally saw this and thought to myself “WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT????”. Then I saw the images and I was just thinking that you guys could not be serious. Had me going, and scared me at the same time. Yay April Fools.

  • Julian
  • Patrick

    THIS is the first april fool that made me laugth :D

    Awesome.

  • Cynthia

    ahahahaha…..
    good one!

  • http://miro91.com Miroslav Petrov

    Nice joke for 1st april !!! :D

  • Emin

    April, April.

  • Nick

    Haha, we can only hope for this day! x]

    ..yes ..sarcasm.

  • fractalfrog

    Brilliant idea! Might I suggest “Myspacetuts” next, where you will feature tutorials how to pimp your Myspace page with as much blinking text, auto-playing audio and video as possible.
    ;-P

  • http://www.bizbuildermarketing.com Russ

    That’s hilarious – a great April fool’s post – and a reminder of just how sad it is when a business owner actually asks for “some of those flashy animated pictures” on their website. Maybe there’s a real market for gifhole (love the name) after all!

  • http://simonleparc.com Simon

    For about 10 secs I believed it… well done!

  • http://www.soulsizzle.com Ryan Marganti

    This brings back some memories for sure. Do they even make Microangelo anymore?

  • http://www.haridada.com Hari Dahal

    Haha LOL

  • http://www.gregbabula.com Greg Babula

    Lovin the cowboy on the computer GIF :-P

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