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 Eagle, East 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.
- You can reserve a workstation for up to two hours at a time.
- You must make reservations at least 1 day in advance.
- You can make reservations up to 7 days in advance.
- Make Digital Creativity Workstation Reservation
Improve your skills in one of our classes!
- Event: Teen Makers: Cricut Crash Course
- Date & Time: Thursday, March 05, 4:00pm
- Location: Southport Branch
- Description: New to Cricut? Learn how to use Design Space, prep materials, and make your first cool project—no experience needed! Take home your very own printed Cricut project!
- Register Here
- Event: Getting Started with Cricut Design Space
- Date & Time: Tuesday, March 10, 5:30pm
- Location: Warren Branch
- Description: Level up your crafts with Cricut! We will guide you step-by-step through Design Space, the software for Cricut die-cut projects. Commonly used essential functions and tools are covered in this introductory class. Whether its cardstock, fabric, or vinyl, this process can bring your projects to life.
- Register Here
- Event: Create with Canva
- Date & Time: Monday, March 16, 2:00pm
- Location: Central Library
- Description: Canva is a digital design program that is perfect for beginners to create anything from business materials to personal projects. Customize templates, add elements, and design graphics to create projects ease.
- Register Here
- Event: Adobe Photoshop Series
- Date & Time: Monday, March 16, 5:30pm
- Location: Central Library
- Description: This course gives you everything you need to get started with Adobe Photoshop, With guided, step‑by‑step instruction, you’ll learn how to navigate the program, explore essential tools, and follow along to enhance a graphic design project,
- Register Here
- Event: Cricut Creations: How To Make Custom Mugs with Cricut
- Date & Time: Tuesday, March 17, 5:30pm
- Location: Warren Branch
- Description: Learn the basics of creating personalized mugs using a Cricut cutting machine. This class covers designing and applying your design using the Cricut Mug Press.
- Register Here
- Event: Cricut Creations: Mug Designs
- Date & Time: Tuesday, March 17, 5:30pm
- Location: Warren Branch
- Description: Take Your Cricut Skills to the Next Level! Build on what we covered in Getting Started with Cricut Design Space in this special edition session. Participants will explore new project options using various Cricut tools and materials while creating a custom mug to take home.
- Register Here
- Event: Create with Canva
- Date & Time: Saturday, March 21, 2:00pm
- Location: College Avenue Branch
- Description: Canva is a digital design program that is perfect for beginners to create anything from business materials to personal projects. Customize templates, add elements, and design graphics to create projects ease.
- Register Here
- Event: Adobe Photoshop Series
- Date & Time: Monday, March 23, 5:30pm
- Location: Central Library
- Description: Ever taken a photo that’s too dark, has an unwanted background object, or a blemish you wish you could remove? Learn techniques to enhance your photos and bring out their best.
- Register Here
- Event: Teen Makers: Cricut Crash Course
- Date & Time: Tuesday, March 24, 3:00pm
- Location: East Washington Branch
- Description: New to Cricut? Learn how to use Design Space, prep materials, and make your first cool project—no experience needed! Take home your very own printed Cricut project!
- Register Here
- Event: Adobe Audition – Curious About Podcasting or Recording?
- Date & Time: Friday, March 27, 2:00pm
- Location: Central Library
- Description: Join the Tech Learning Team and explore the essentials of Adobe Audition. Learn to navigate the workspace, record audio, and make basic edits to your tracks. You’ll learn the skills required to create a simple podcast or audio project from start to finish.
- 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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Cricut Papercraft and Vinyl and more…
Books and instructional videos for Cricut crafters using paper, fabric, and vinyl. I’ve also included some other papercrafting books. #Indypladults
3D Printing
3D printing is the process of making three dimensional objects from digital files. It’s not quite as cool as a Star Trek replicator, but it’s close. If you would like to learn more about how the process works, check out some of the titles or websites from this list.
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