Announcing The Ultimate Freelancer Pricing Guide — A Newsletter Exclusive



An Exclusive Series for Newsletter Subscribers

Are you a FreelanceSwitch Newsletter subscriber? If not, now’s the time to join! We’re running a fantastic series of articles, focused on how you can effectively and easily price your services.

We’ll be looking at topics such as hourly vs. fixed rates, assessing the competition, negotiation, and understanding the value of your work. Throughout the series, we’ll also be including some exclusive offers and discounts!

Read on to find out more, and see a sneak peek at first issue…

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Join the FreelanceSwitch Community on Google+



We’re excited to let you know that now, in addition to Twitter and Facebook, you can get involved with the FreelanceSwitch community over at Google+! We’ll be using Google+ to let you know about our latest articles, interesting content from around the web, and news.

We already have over 1,000 freelancers following us there and it’s growing quickly. Read on to find out more…


What to Expect on Google+

FreelanceSwitch on Google+

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Join the FreelanceSwitch Newsletter!



We’ve just launched a free newsletter you can use to keep up to date with the latest news and articles from FreelanceSwitch. Every week you’ll get a digest of everything we’ve published over the past seven days, mailed straight to your inbox. If there’s a big announcement coming, newsletter subscribers will often be the first to know!

We’ll also be releasing an exclusive series of articles in the New Year, just for FreelanceSwitch newsletter subscribers.

The newsletter is free to join and ad-free. Subscribe now to make the most of this new way to easily receive the latest FreelanceSwitch content in your inbox, or read on for a preview of what to expect in our newsletter…

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Have Your Say in the FreelanceSwitch Survey!



We love the community of readers we have at FreelanceSwitch and your opinion is incredibly valuable. This week, we’re giving you the chance to have your say about the site, and win a few fantastic prizes at the same time! Read on to find out how to get involved and stand a chance of winning an impressive prize package…

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Best of Tuts+ in September



Each month, we bring together a selection of the best tutorials and articles from across the whole Tuts+ network. Whether you’d like to read the top posts from your favorite site, or would like to start learning something completely new, this is the best place to start!

Psdtuts+ — Photoshop Tutorials

Create Animal Textured Typography

In this tutorial we are going to create fun, realistic, animal textured, 3D typography in Photoshop using CS5′s Repousse tool. Let’s get started!

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Create a Detailed User Interface for an iPad Application

In this tutorial we will show you how to design a detailed user interface for an audio-themed iPad application. We will design this application using a retina display resolution and will make use of Photoshop’s shape layers and layer styles. Let’s get started!

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Best of Tuts+ in August



Each month, we bring together a selection of the best tutorials and articles from across the whole Tuts+ network. Whether you’d like to read the top posts from your favourite site, or would like to start learning something completely new, this is the best place to start!

Cgtuts+ — Computer Graphics Tutorials

Vehicle Rendering With Fryrender

Rendering realistic vehicles is no easy task, the complexity of the surfaces and high reflectivity make getting good renders a time consuming, and often frustrating process. So we’ve enlisted the help of author Shaun Keenan to guide you through the process of creating a high quality, realistic vehicle render using Maya 2011 and Random Control’s physically accurate Fryrender.

Epic Blender Tutorials

We’ve scoured the web in search of the best Blender tutorials out there and compiled a list of 45 of the most epic we could find. This collection includes a variety of tutorials covering everything from modeling and animation, to rigging and VFX. So grab a coffee and savor the Blender goodness!

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Get the Birthday Bundle Today!



It’s Envato’s 5th birthday and we’re ready to celebrate! With another year comes another Bundle, and this year’s Bundle is bigger and better than ever with over $500 ($507 in fact) worth of awesome files all for only $20!

With the recent public launch of Envato’s stock photography marketplace PhotoDune, we’ve been able to include even more great files. Our team have handpicked picked some super cool stuff from around the marketplaces and have worked tirelessly to cram them into our 5th Birthday Bundle. See the full list of files on the Birthday Bundle page!

Read on for a quick look through what’s inside this year…

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