In this Best of Tuts+ roundup you’ll learn how to simulate a sniper scope, design and code a flexible website, create an intense movie poster, create a golden vector compass, build a minigolf game with ActionScript 3.0, take sports photos like a pro, create a rocky video game terrain in Blender and get a useful introduction to home recording–among many other things! Let’s take a look.

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The Tuts+ Network has teamed up with MySuiteStuff to hold a network-wide pillowriffic giveaway! One random commenter will be chosen to win a very cute Ae Icon pillow. To increase your chances of winning some loot, make sure to visit each Tuts+ site and take part in each giveaway. Across the network, we’re giving away pillows for all the creative apps you know and love, including Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash and Flex. To enter, all you’ve gotta do is comment! Too easy.

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Here’s our collection of the Top 5 tutorials from each site in the Tuts+ network in August. Whether you want to design and code your first website, layer hip hop drums, design a mixed media masterpiece, illustrate a brain icon, make your own Adobe AIR application, model a lethal combat knife, take gorgeous HDR photos or create a gruesome tracked head wound in After Effects, you’ll find lessons on each – and much more – in this collection.

Hit the jump and learn to the max!

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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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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 $9.

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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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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Since Aetuts+ was launched Lloyd Alvarez has brought wisdom and experience to the site, in both his own tutorials and in the tutorials he selected and developed for publication. But as often happens with super-talented people, they become super-popular!

Due to steadily increasing freelance commitments Lloyd has decided he is no longer able to give Aetuts+ the love and attention it needs. It is with great fondness that we farewell Lloyd and wish him the best of luck in his creative career–though I’m sure he won’t be able to resist the urge to contribute a tutorial every once and a while!

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Unfortunately, the Aetuts+ staff have had to remove a recently published tutorial due to copyright issues. Claims of plagiarism are taken very seriously and thoroughly investigated. After looking into the matter we decided the only appropriate course of action was to remove the tutorial in question and withhold payment from its author.

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Aetuts+ is always looking to source out talented motion graphics and VFX artists to create tutorials for the site. If you love After Effects and know more than a thing or two, we would love to hear your pitch for a tutorial you’d like to create for us. Aside from getting paid you’ll receive exposure in front of over 400,000 Aetuts+ readers.

So – how much do we pay? Make us an offer! Send us your concept and how much – in USD – you would sell the tutorial for. If we like the concept and feel the tutorial will be worth the price tag attached to it, we will accept it and you’ll be paid what you asked for.

Interested? Head over to the ‘Write a Tutorial‘ page to learn the guidelines and how to submit.