Isolated Photo Objects on GraphicRiver

Sick of deep etching photos? We were too, that's why you can now buy professionally masked photos of objects on GraphicRiver! It's a brand new category but we've got over a hundred photos already waiting, selling for just $1-2 each. They're perfect for fitting quickly and nicely into a design. All photos come with a PSD file with the object on its own layer, separate from shadows and backgrounds.

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Envato's First Quarter-million Dollar Author!

This week the Envato Marketplaces have their first quarter-million dollar author. DigitalScience broke through our top sales badge and we’ve quickly rushed out a new author badge - the Plutonium Paw – for authors who have sold more than $250,000 worth of digital goods!

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Hundreds of Design Templates at GraphicRiver

From business cards to newsletters, brochures, and flyers, GraphicRiver has expanded its library to support print design templates made by our talented authors. We're even giving out $1,000 worth in prizes for the best template files submitted during the month of April! Stop by to join the competition, or buy one of the potentially award-winning files in vector or graphics!

Under the Radar: on Down the Foxhole

Have you ever searched through the FlashDen library, found an absolute gem of a file, and noticed that it only has 6 or 8 sales?! For whatever reason, some files just slip under the radar, only discovered by a lucky few. ScottWills,the new FlashDen blogger, is going to change that, one file at a time. He's started a new series called "Under the Radar." In this series he'll dig up FlashDen's lost masterpieces and highlight them for the world to see. Make sure to check out the first excavation - qub.

Enter ThemeForest's $1000 Competition

We're hoping to dramatically increase our Joomla offerings over the course of the next few months. In an effort to give our authors a bit of a boost, we're offering a $200 bonus to the authors of the first five accepted templates into this category. So hurry; design a brilliant template, and submit! Not only will you receive the bonus, but you'll also enjoy some helpful promotion on Nettuts+ and "In the Woods" in the coming months. We can't wait to see what you come up with! Refer here for more information, as well as the terms and conditions.

$2,000 Project Files Competition

I’m excited to announce VideoHive's first official contest, and boy is it a big one! Three lucky authors will get their share of $2,000 in cash prizes - and all you need to do to enter is upload your awesome project files. Authors will have 30 days to upload their project files and the winners will then be chosen based on total sales volume within the next 30 day period. So fire up After Effects or Motion, and get to work!

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How Musicians Should Look After Their Hearing

I first heard it around eight years ago. I was at the mixing desk for a live gig, and was concerned about a high pitched ringing sound I could hear. "Can you hear that high pitched sound?" I asked the guy standing next to me. "Yeah", he answered vaguely. So I started trying to isolate which channel the sound was coming from, and eventually started to adjust the EQ of the mix trying to get rid of that sound. I managed to achieve a ridiculously muddy sound, but couldn't get rid of the ringing. As I drove home I laughed out loud. I could still hear the ringing! I discovered then and there that I have tinnitus, also called "ringing in the ears".

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All the Music Apps for Google's Android You Could Need

The HTC Dream Android phone (elsewhere known as the G1) arrived in Australia recently, and I've had mine for about a month now. I have been an enthusiastic user of palmtops, organizers, PDAs and smartphones since the late 80s, and this one is very nice. The iPhone broke exciting new ground in the smartphone space, and Android - an operating system developed by Google - follows strongly in that tradition. At this stage, in terms of both hardware and software, the iPhone unquestionably comes out on top. But it is Android's philosophy of openness that interests me most, and could open up very interesting possibilities in the future. Eight months ago we reviewed six applications for musicians on the iPhone. How does Android compare as a gadget for musicians?