Submit a Tutorial

Want to submit a tutorial to VECTORTUTS? We’ll pay US$150 p/tutorial published, and you’ll get to help your fellow designers and illustrators!

What to Write About?

We are looking for extensive tutorials using these programs:

  1. Adobe Illustrator
  2. Adobe Fireworks
  3. CorelDRAW
  4. For other vector packages, please contact us

We prefer more complete, practical and extensive tutorials.

You must fulfill the following criteria:

  • You must send in your ALREADY WRITTEN tutorial. Please note not every tutorial will be accepted. (We do now offer a review form that you can use prior to writing the tutorial )
  • Your tutorial must be your original work and not published elsewhere.
  • You must have a PayPal account for us to pay you, all fees will be paid at the end of the calendar month.
  • You will need to format your tutorial as per the format described below.
  • Your tutorial may be edited prior to publishing.

If the tutorial is accepted:

  • The author can use tutorial graphics in any commercial or non-commercial work, except in an online tutorial. Source files cannot be resold or redistributed.
  • you grant a license to readers to use the knowledge and demonstrated effects shown in the tutorial in their own projects without reference to yourself, Envato or this site. They may not reproduce the tutorial itself, but they can use the techniques you teach.
  • you grant a license to Envato to be the exclusive publisher of the tutorial online. You may republish extracts online – for example on your own site – however the tutorial in its entirety should not appear elsewhere. You may also republish the tutorial offline in any way you wish – e.g. sell it to a magazine, submit it to a book.
  • you consent to the full tutorial, extracts, samples or examples from it appearing in other Envato sites, products and services, including the Plus memberships section, and that all profits will be redirected back into the site.

Photography and Source Images

Some tutorials make use of photos for their effects. There are a few things you need to know in this regard:

  1. DO NOT use images from Google Image search or simply taken from a website
  2. DO NOT use images from Flickr UNLESS they have a Creative Commons License for Commercial Use. In this case you must provide an attribution link back to the Flickr page you found the image on. Note you can find CC Commercial images on Flickr using their Advanced Search feature.
  3. DO use images you photographed yourself
  4. DO use images from free stock sites like SXC.hu and StockVault.net, BUT make sure you check the agreement for use in files for distribution. Sometimes you need to ask permission from the photographer. We need this because if the image is included in the sample file, we can’t distribute it unless you have permission.
  5. IF YOU USE images from a stock site like iStockPhoto, Dreamstime, or other THEN you are free to use the images in your screenshots, but in the source files you need to use a watermark over the image as they do in the previews on their sites. In other words you can purchase a stock image to use, but in the sample file you can’t be distributing the whole image (because the photographer isn’t receiving a royalty from the sale of files)

Please include links to the source of any images you have used in your tutorial wherever it has been used. If you do not include your image sources your tutorial will not be accepted, because we need to verify that the file is OK.

Thank you for taking the time to make sure the photos are OK, it helps protect the site, the photographer and yourself!

Credit All Sources and Use Common Sense

Always credit your sources
When you credit your sources, it’s clear that you aren’t trying to hide something. For tutorial submissions it also lets our editors check that the tutorial is acceptable.

Use common sense and Err to the side of caution
There are no hard and fast rules about copyright. Beware of “rules” like ‘copying 40% is OK’, there’s no such thing. And remember that even aside from exact words or images, it can be the idea or principle. If you think something might not be OK, then trust your gut and don’t do it.

Tutorial Acceptance and Payment

Please note, not all tutorials will be accepted. We only accept tutorials that match the site’s standards of both writing and tutorial content.

If your tutorial is accepted, payment of US$150 will be made within 2 weeks after your tutorial has been posted on VECTORTUTS. Please note that if we gain evidence in this time that the tutorial or source images used in the tutorial have been plagiarized we will take the tutorial off the site and payment will not be made.

How to Format Your Tutorial for Submission

Your tutorial must come with:

  1. A Sample EPS/AI or other source file for people to download
  2. A 200×200px preview image of the finished effect
  3. An HTML file with the tutorial written out. The HTML file should be written in the same way that tutorials on the site are, that is in a set of “Steps” with an image before each one. Additionally you should have a paragraph at the beginning giving an introduction. You can download the HTML template here.
  4. Images in the tutorial should be no more than 600px wide. The only exception is for when the tutorial has a final product that needs to be large (e.g. a wallpaper)

Get Feedback BEFORE Writing the Full Tutorial

You can send in a single JPG image and tutorial pitch to us for review prior to writing the whole tutorial. This will save you time in instances where the tutorial/image is not what we are looking for. You can do this by clicking the link below:

VECTORTUTS Preview Submission Form

How to Submit

Completed Submissions can be made via:

VECTORTUTS Completed Submission Form