The results are in! I’m proud to announce the winners of the month-long GraphicRiver Beta Upload competition. Authors participating in the GraphicRiver beta competed to make the most sales on their early submissions, with one winner for each upload category. Please give your warmest congratulations to our winning authors.
If you’ve taken a look at GraphicRiver’s category tree this morning, you’ll notice slight changes in how files are organized. In response to popular submissions and trends we’ve seen since GraphicRiver launched, we’ve added and moved around some categories. Here’s an overview of the new categories and what it means for you.
UIs, widgets, buttons and navigation mock-ups! If it’s made for website or web app design, it should go here.
To accomodate the popularity of our business cards and print template files, we’ve created a sub-category just for them, including options for InDesign or Quark files. Submit any templates for design projects to the Design Templates sub-category.
Texture photos and rasters now have their own top level category! Make sure to use the new textures upload form for this category.
Ever just need a photo of an object to drop into a design composition? GraphicRiver is proud to offer a whole new category of photographs with objects already isolated and seperated from the background for your use.
Got a stock graphic that just can’t be layered and organized in Photoshop like normal submissions? An artistic render that doesn’t quite fit into the 3D section? GraphicRiver has opened submissions to layered PNGs and rendered raster files that can not be otherwise layered due to design techniques. Make sure you clearly describe the file type and level of organization and customization in the file description!
We hope these new category changes will better serve the buyers and authors in the GraphicRiver community. If you have any feedback or thoughts on these changes, feel free to send us a note!
Here at GraphicRiver we’ve been blessed with a deluge of submissions since we opened beta, but we want more! What better way to celebrate beta than to hold a competition for beta authors? Here’s the deal: We’ll track all files uploaded during beta, and the ones that sell the most in the first month after public launch in each category (Graphics, Vectors, Icons and Add-ons) will each win US$400.
To be eligible, simply upload a file for approval before the end of the beta period. Approved files in all categories of upload are eligible for the competition. The end of beta and live launch is set for February 24th so get those Vectors, PSDs, Icons, and Add-ons ready!
Up for grabs are 4 prizes of $400 (USD) to be paid via PayPal only.
The winners will be announced here on the blog, in the first week of April (approximately 1 week after the close of the competition). Winners will also be contacted via email to arrange for collection of the prizes.
The rules are as follows:
If you have any questions, just add a comment and I’ll make any clarifications!
Having trouble getting a file approved? Not sure what to do before submission? By popular demand, here’s the secrets from the reviewer’s den!
Firstly, and most obviously the file must be your own work and not stolen, traced, or lifted from any work or reference not your own. If the file is copyrighted you will get found out. Reviewers have their methods of determining if a file is copyrighted/traced and even if (an unlikely if) it makes it to the site, there are over 100,000 marketplace members who would love to turn you in and receive a shiny 
‘Sheriff’s Badge’. So heed this warning: Do not upload files with copyrighted materials!
Here are a few tips which, if followed will increase the chances of your file being approved. (more…)
It’s barely 2009 and already it’s time for a brand-new Envato Marketplace! Today GraphicRiver opens up into a private beta, with public launch just around the corner in a few weeks time.
GraphicRiver will be offering layered Photoshop files, vector EPS files, and other graphic resources not found in other stock sources. We’ve had tremendous numbers sign up for beta testing, over 1500 members, and as Site Manager, I’m hoping to open the floodgates at public launch with a really healthy selection of graphic files for sale. That means the we need you to get uploading!
All the team are excited to see GraphicRiver become a bustling marketplace for graphic authors, illustrators and dabblers to sell their work. While there’s going to be all sorts of content on the site, I thought I’d share a few of my favourite GraphicRiver categories:
GraphicRiver has big plans for the future, so stay tuned to THIS blog for up-coming contests, featured authors, a new tagging system, news from the review team, and plenty more developments. And as always, if you have any feedback on GraphicRiver, feel free to drop me a line via support or visit my homepage!
The River Current is the community blog of GraphicRiver, an Envato marketplace. At GraphicRiver you can buy or sell graphics, vectors, icons, Adobe add-ons, textures and isolated photo objects! Files are created and sold by a huge community of authors from all over the world!
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