Keys That Click - Minding your own design business and other observations

Posted in Design, on March 19th, 2010 by Carlos.

Earlier this week I mentioned MediaLoot, a resource site for designers. Thanks to commentor Don, I checked out his recommendations – the Envato marketplaces. Envato runs many sites that you may have already heard of like psdtuts+. Their marketplace sites are a series of sites that offer design resources for many applications. GraphicRiver is a marketplace for layered Photoshop files, vectors, icon packs and more. Its sister sites like ActiveDen sell Flash and Flex resources, while others are dedicated to audio, video, 3D and more.

The prices for the their resources start at $1, $2, or $4 depending on the marketplace. For example, a site theme purchased from the ThemeForest marketplace starts at $4 seeing as how the files you’d be purchasing there are more sophisticated and involved. To get the lowest possible price, you need to prepay to add money to your account. Seeing as your account works across the various marketplace sites, you’re very likely to find things to spend your money on. For whatever reason I had been stuck on iStockphoto for quite some time even to buy vectors, but I’m starting to realize that there is a lot more choice out there at much more competitive prices. [Envato marketplaces wiki]