Envato Tuts+

What Envato Tuts+ is

Envato Tuts+ is the learning site of Envato, the company behind a subscription library of fonts, templates, stock media and AI tools. It is a catalog for self-taught learners: video courses and written tutorials on design, illustration, photography, video, audio, web design, code and business, taught by working designers, developers and videographers. The homepage title reads "Free Courses, Tutorials, Tips & Tricks with Envato Tuts+," and the site describes its library as "thousands of free tutorials made by creatives, for creatives," from 3D art to motion design. The courses page counts 190+ video-based courses and short courses. The tutorials page says there are "over 22,100 free how-to articles and tutorials," built up over "more than a decade," while the homepage cites 15,000+ tutorials, and the tutorials page says millions of students use the free tutorials every month.

The catalog

The site is organized into seven areas: Design, Business, Photo, Video, Web Design, Code and Music. The homepage breaks the popular ones down further. Design covers Adobe Photoshop, graphic design and illustration. Web Design covers WordPress, HTML and CSS, and UX/UI design. Code covers JavaScript, mobile development and PHP, with guides such as Kotlin From Scratch, which is how the site also serves people learning to program. Video splits into equipment, post-production, and templates and presets; Photography into equipment, editing and post-processing, and types of photography; and Business into presentations, marketing and management.

The courses page sums up the range: "Budding WordPress developers will love the huge selection of WordPress courses, while designers can master everything from Photoshop to print design." Each course, it says, "is created by an expert in the field and contains anywhere from half an hour to several hours of detailed video instruction."

The beginner courses on the homepage show the format. Graphic Design Basics with Laura Keung runs 01:03:05, Adobe Photoshop for Beginners with Dan Scott 03:06:48, Adobe Illustrator for Beginners with Daniel Walter Scott 03:17:02 and his Adobe InDesign for Beginners 02:23:48, Web Design for Beginners with Adi Purdila 05:18:44, and After Effects for Beginners with David Bode 08:13:29. Motion Design for the Web, also by Adi Purdila, is labeled a free course. Every listing is tagged Course or Tutorial and Beginner or Intermediate, so a learner can see the level at a glance.

Recent courses show how current the catalog is kept: a vibe coding course that builds a simple app with the AI tool Bolt, a guide to cine lenses with cinematographer Michael Lincoln, a Blender and KitBash3D city scene, character design for animation in Illustrator, typographic logo design, the basics of sound design in Premiere Pro, five rules of shot composition, and a look at the motion design tool Cavalry against After Effects. Some are lighter, such as designers ranking every Wes Anderson movie poster.

The instructors

The homepage introduces its featured teachers with their trades: Laura Keung, brand and editorial designer; Ashlee Harrell, graphic designer; Daniel Walter Scott, "Adobe Master"; Jemima Abu, front-end developer; Adi Purdila, web designer; and David Bode, videographer. Author pages list everything each person has published.

David Bode's page describes him as a camera operator, editor, motion graphics designer, recording engineer and studio musician who has made content for VH1 and Discovery Networks and started his own video business in 2011. His courses include Adobe After Effects for Beginners (8.2 hours), How to Animate in After Effects (3.6 hours), Advanced Audio Processing for Video (3.4 hours), What Every Photographer Should Know About Lenses (2.7 hours), How to Color Grade Video (1.2 hours) and a 56-minute course on color correction in Premiere. He also teaches a free Reaper course, lesson by lesson, from installation through editing, MIDI, routing, effects and automation, plus a course on editing a podcast in Reaper.

Diana Toma, a vector artist, writes tutorials for Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo and Adobe Illustrator: removing backgrounds and shadows, gradient fills, brushes, maximalist patterns, and recreating logos such as Squid Game's and Jurassic Park's. Jemima Abu, a self-taught front-end developer, writes JavaScript and CSS tutorials: animate on scroll, a CSS-only carousel and modal, a site search bar, custom cursors, password validation, debounce and throttle, and an HTML accordion with no JavaScript.

How learning works

Courses are recorded video, watched at the learner's own pace; tutorials are written step-by-step guides, many of them a minute's read or a few minutes long. Beyond the site, the Envato Tuts+ YouTube channel adds "Weekly vids, live streams, and playlists," which is where the live element sits. A newsletter sends new tutorials, trends and tools. Testimonials on the homepage are YouTube comments from learners: one says After Effects for Beginners taught them "more from this than from 3 years of college in graphic design," and another says the Photoshop for Beginners video taught them Photoshop before they went on to make film campaigns.

Pricing and the Envato subscription

The courses and tutorials are presented as free, which is the site's main draw. What Envato sells alongside them is its subscription, advertised at the top of the page as "Get every type of asset for any type of project, and access to AI tools" from $16.50 a month. That plan covers unlimited downloads of fonts, graphic templates, 3D models and renders, motion graphics and photos, plus AI tools: an AI Video Generator, AI Image Generator, AI Image Editor (removing backgrounds, replacing objects), AI Music Generator and AI Voice Generator. The free courses do not depend on it, though some tutorials are built around Envato's own tools, such as one on making a movie poster with Envato ImageGen and ImageEdit.

Who it suits

Envato Tuts+ suits self-directed learners who want to pick up a specific tool or technique without paying for a course: a beginner starting Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign or After Effects, a WordPress or front-end developer looking up a JavaScript pattern, a video editor learning color grading or sound design, or a musician starting in Reaper. Designers who already pay for Envato's asset library get a matching set of tutorials on using it.

It is a reference library rather than a school. There are no instructors to review a learner's work, and learners move through it by search and category rather than an assigned program, so beginners who want a fixed sequence are best served by starting with the longer beginner courses and working outward from there.