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Digital Creativity at the Library

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Enhance your digital creativity skills at the Library! Explore a range of opportunities to advance your abilities, including photo, video, and audio editing. Master the art of making presentations look professional and discover innovative ways to showcase your work. Additionally, gain hands-on experience with a 3D printer and much more. Our comprehensive programs offer everything you need to take your digital skills to the next level and bring your creative projects to life.

Workstation Amenities

Looking to enhance your skills in photo editing, video production, audio manipulation, or graphic design? Our Digital Creativity Workstations are available for reservation at EagleEast 38th Street, and Fort Ben. These state-of-the-art workstations provide access to advanced software and equipment, allowing you to bring your creative projects to life. Whether you’re a professional, a student, or a hobbyist, our workstations offer the tools you need to achieve high-quality results and explore new dimensions of digital creativity.

On this workstation you can practice the skills learned during a class, work on an existing project, or pursue self-paced learning with LinkedIn Learning or Adobe’s Built-in Tutorials. The workstation has specialized software to support multimedia projects including Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Vegas Pro Video Editor, and more!

A reservation is required.

Improve your skills in one of our classes!

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  • Event: Adobe Photoshop Basics
  • Date & Time: Tuesday, November 18, 2:00pm
  • Location: Central Library
  • Description: Discover how to transform images to match your artistic vision. Learn the essentials of Adobe Photoshop, including the interface, core tools, layers, and basic editing techniques.
  • Register Here
  • Event: Microsoft Powerpoint Series
  • Date & Time: Friday, November 21, 2:00pm
  • Location: Southport Branch
  • Description: Join us for a three-part introduction to Microsoft PowerPoint Week 1 – Layout, Navigation, and Files Week 2 – Text, Images, and Customizing Slides Week 3 – Adding Animations and Multimedia
  • Register Here
  • Event: Adobe Photoshop Basics
  • Date & Time: Tuesday, November 25, 2:00pm
  • Location: Central Library
  • Description: Build on your Photoshop – Level 1 skills with advanced techniques. Enhance your photo editing skills with retouching, creative color manipulation, and correcting common issues like exposure problems and red eye.
  • Register Here
  • Event: Adobe Audition
  • Date & Time: Friday, November 28, 2:00pm
  • Location: Central Library
  • Description: Explore basic audio editing by creating a brief project from start to finish. Learn how to start a new project, edit, mix, record, and restore audio using Adobe Audition!
  • Register Here
  • Event: Create Digital Designs with Canva
  • Date & Time: Thursday, December 04, 3:00pm
  • Location: West Perry Branch
  • Description: Learn how to use the free online graphic design tool Canva. Create a custom digital design for greeting cards, business cards, flyers, and more. Share your designs online or by printing them.
  • Register Here
  • Event: Adobe Audition
  • Date & Time: Saturday, December 06, 10:30am
  • Location: Central Library
  • Description: Explore basic audio editing by creating a brief project from start to finish. Learn how to start a new project, edit, mix, record, and restore audio using Adobe Audition!
  • Register Here
  • Event: 3D Printing at Central Library
  • Date & Time: Monday, December 15, 6:00pm
  • Location: Central Library
  • Description: Adults ages 18 and up are invited to learn the basics of 3D printing from concept to creation using Tinkercad, the S5 Ultimaker, and other 3D printers. This program will be held in Central Library’s Makerspace.
  • No Registration Required.
  • Event: Adobe Photoshop Basics
  • Date & Time: Tuesday, December 16, 5:30pm
  • Location: Central Library
  • Description: Discover how to transform images to match your artistic vision. Learn the essentials of Adobe Photoshop, including the interface, core tools, layers, and basic editing techniques.
  • Register Here

Adobe Creative Cloud

Bring your creative projects to life with the help of Adobe Creative Cloud, an innovative provider of 20+ creative apps, web services, and resources in photography, UX design, drawing, social media, painting, graphic design, video editing and more, brought to you with newly enhanced AI features.

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Getting started with a Cricut Machine

Cricut machines can cut, write, and score, making it possible to create a wide variety of projects out of all kinds of materials. Learn how to use your machine to its full potential and try out some of these suggested projects!

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