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: Cricut Design Space for Beginners
- Date & Time: Thursday, October 09, 10:30am
- Location: Irvington Branch
- Description: This class will guide you step-by-step through Design Space, the software for designing Cricut projects. Explore the Design Space canvas and the functions and tools bringing your designs to life. Learn about the material prep screen and unloading and assembling a beginner-level cut project.
- Register Here
- Event: Start Building a Free Website With Wix
- Date & Time: Saturday, October 11, 2:00pm
- Location: Central Library
- Description: Learn the first steps in using the Wix program’s free drag-and-drop editor and templates for creating a customized website. No coding knowledge is required!
- Register Here
- Event: Cricut Creations: Design Space Project Series
- Date & Time: Thursday, October 16, 10:30am
- Location: Irvington Branch
- Description: This Cricut Creations class is designed for those already familiar with the basics of Cricut Design Space and ready to learn more tools and techniques.
- Register Here
- Event: Using Canva Templates to Create Book Covers
- Date & Time: Saturday, October 18, 12:00pm
- Location: Central Library
- Description: Need book visuals? Canva’s got you “covered”! In this session, we will focus on tools and features you need to know to make Canva’s templates work for you and your book.
- Register Here
- Event: Using Canva Templates to Create Book Covers
- Date & Time: Saturday, October 18, 3:00pm
- Location: Central Library
- Description: Need book visuals? Canva’s got you “covered”! In this session, we will focus on tools and features you need to know to make Canva’s templates work for you and your book.
- Register Here
- Event: Adobe Photoshop Basics
- Date & Time: Monday, October 20, 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.
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- Event: Adobe Photoshop Basics
- Date & Time: Tuesday, October 21, 5:30pm
- 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.
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- Event: Create Digital Designs with Canva
- Date & Time: Thursday, October 23, 10:30am
- Location: Central Library
- 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: Digital Creativity Open Lab
- Date & Time: Saturday, October 25, 10:00am
- Location: Central Library
- Description: Reserve a time to get access to Cricut machines for your project use. This is a self-directed session that does not include staff instruction.
- Register Here
- Event: Digital Creativity Open Lab
- Date & Time: Saturday, October 25, 10:00am
- Location: Central Library
- Description: Develop your skills further with our Adobe creativity stations. The Creative Cloud suite will be available to use for graphic design, video editing, web development, and photography.
- 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.
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!
