This article outlines each step of the upload process for all Envato Market sites (except for PhotoDune). Follow it as you upload your items to ensure that your submissions meet our formatting and technical standards.
To learn how to become an author on any of the Envato Market sites, refer to this article.
PhotoDune is a little different from other Envato Market sites. You can view the PhotoDune guidelines and requirements here.
Please note that all marketplaces have Author-Driven Pricing. You can learn more about selecting a price here.
Contents
Name & Description
Your item name and description must accurately describe your item and its components. They should both provide relevant information that makes it easy for customers to find items meeting their needs.
The name field should always be relevant, concise, and professional looking. The following are examples of good and bad naming practices:
Good:
- “This is the File Name” – Capitalize the first letter in each word. Small words like “of” and “an” may be lowercase.
- “Template with CMS” – Capitalize acronyms and abbreviations like XML and PSD.
- “WordPress Template” – Do follow the industry standard even if it doesn’t follow the normal capitalization rules. For example, use jQuery and WordPress instead of Jquery and Wordpress.
Bad:
- “THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE” – Do not use all CAPS.
- “this is also not acceptable” – Do not use all lowercase.
- “Beautiful File” or “The Best Template” – Do not use subjective words like brilliant, amazing, or best. These words describe your opinion rather than what the file actually is.
- “User9909 – File Name” – Do not append your username or any other less-relevant information to the file name.
- “Apple-like Design” – Do not describe what your item is similar to in its title, describe what it actually is.
Your description must accurately describe all elements of your main file. Ensure you mention if anything shown in the preview is not included in the main .zip and note if any main element is rasterized, outlined or otherwise not editable. If you're using non-standard fonts in your item, these must be documented in your description. Check out this article for some tips.
You should not include links to external, competing services including items for sale on your own website. For more information, refer to this What links can I place in My Item Description, Preview, or Downloads? article.
Files
Image Preview
Create a 590x300px JPG for your preview image. Make sure your preview image is an accurate representation of your file. Your preview image must not contain trademarks or images of celebrities.
- GraphicRiver has a max height restriction of 8000px for preview images.
- 3DOcean allow preview images of any height.
- AudioJungle doesn’t require a preview image.
- VideoHive preview images can have a height of either 300px or 332px
Thumbnail
Create an 80x80px JPG, PNG or GIF for your thumbnail. Make sure your thumbnail accurately represents your file. Your thumbnail image (and/or avatar image) must not contain trademarks or images of celebrities.
You are also not permitted to artificially add any official Envato Market graphical assets to your thumbnails, e.g. community badges or trending assets. This is considered "gaming the system" and works against our terms and conditions.
Main File
Save your main files into a .zip folder, including all instructions. Ensure the files are organised in a clear and orderly fashion.
Envato Market-specific instructions for preparing your main file:
Preview Image Set
You can provide additional preview images. They must be JPGs no larger than 900x900px, and named in the order that you want them to appear using the following format:
01_preview1.jpg, 02_preview2.jpg, 03_closeup.jpg.
Create a .zip folder containing your additional preview images.
Category & Attributes
Choose a suitable category for your file. Select which file types are included in your download (you can select multiple items by holding down the CTRL key on Windows or the COMMAND key on OS X). Select which software and versions of software your file can be opened in.
Ensure you match any attributes in these forms to the attributes of your file.
For example, dimensions on GraphicRiver, polycount on 3DOcean and length on AudioJungle.
When uploading to AudioJungle:
- Ensure that you select the appropriate audio file type (i.e. MP3 or WAV)
- Ensure that you have correctly entered the length of your file.
- For single music file and ident submissions that include variations, you must enter the length of the longest file in the set.
- For sound and ident packs, you must enter the length as the total length of all the files.
Tags
Tags should be lower case, separated by commas, spelled correctly (using American Standard English) and should relate to your item, its specifications, and its possible uses. Do not use the same tags for every item. Each tag must be relevant to the item it is applied to.
- For AudioJungle, GraphicRiver, and 3DOcean you may enter up to 30 tags.
- For ThemeForest, VideoHive, and CodeCanyon you may enter up to 15 tags.
Please Note: Tags may be more than one word eg. “community service”, “cross-media”.
For more tips on effective tags, refer to this article.
Notes to the Reviewer
Enter any relevant information you wish to send to the reviewer.
When using images containing recognizable human faces or private locations, you must provide a scanned version of a filled out and signed model or location release. For more information, refer to this article.
Upload Limits
There are limits to the number of items authors can have in the queue to be reviewed. The upload limits apply to ThemeForest and AudioJungle categories.
ThemeForest categories:
- eCommerce
- Site Templates
- Static Site Generators
- Blogging
- Marketing
- CMS Themes
- Muse
- PSD Templates
- Wordpress
The following upload limits apply to each author level:
|
Author Level |
Upload limit |
|
Power Elite |
Up to 5 items can be in the review queue at any time |
|
Elite |
Up to 5 items can be in the review queue at any time |
|
Non-elite authors |
One (1) new item submission at any time |
AudioJungle categories:
- Music Packs
- Music Kits
- Logos and Indents
The following upload limits apply to each author level:
|
Author Level |
Upload limit |
|
Power Elite |
Up to 10 items can be in the review queue at any time |
|
Elite |
Up to 10 items can be in the review queue at any time |
|
Non-elite authors |
Up to 5 items can be in the review queue at any time |
The following limits apply to the AudioJungle Sound Effects category:
|
Author Level |
Upload limit |
|
Power Elite |
Up to 40 items can be in the review queue at any time |
|
Elite |
Up to 40 items can be in the review queue at any time |
|
Non-elite authors |
Up to 20 items can be in the review queue at any time |
The following limits apply to the AudioJungle Music category, and are based on time and approval ratio, not Elite-level:
|
Approval Ratio |
Upload limit |
|
Authors with <70% |
2 items per calendar month |
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Authors with >=70% |
30 items per calendar month |