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: Holiday Card With Canva
- Date & Time: Monday, June 02, 6:15pm
- Location: Garfield Park Branch
- Description: Learn how to use the free, online graphic design tool, Canva. Create a custom digital design for greeting cards, business cards, flyers, holiday cards, wishes and more. Share your designs online or by printing them.
- Register Here
- Event: Create Digital Designs with Canva.com
- Date & Time: Saturday, June 21, 2:00pm
- Location: Beech Grove 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 Photoshop Basics Level 1
- Date & Time: Saturday, June 21, 2:00pm
- Location: Central Library
- Description: Get started editing images and photos. Discover how to transform images to match your artistic vision. Explore the basic tools you will need and gain hands-on experience.
- Register Here
- Event: Create Digital Designs with Canva.com
- Date & Time: Wednesday, June 25, 2:00pm
- Location: East 38th Street 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: Cricut Design Space for Beginners
- Date & Time: Wednesday, June 25, 5:30pm
- Location: InfoZone 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: Holiday Card With Canva
- Date & Time: Friday, June 27, 11:00am
- Location: Garfield Park Branch
- Description: Learn how to use the free, online graphic design tool, Canva. Create a custom digital design for greeting cards, business cards, flyers, holiday cards, wishes and more. Share your designs online or by printing them.
- Register Here
- Event: Adobe Photoshop Level 2
- Date & Time: Saturday, June 28, 2:00pm
- Location: Central Library
- Description: Build on the skills covered in Photoshop– Level 1 to learn tips and tricks to touch up photos and manipulate color with effects.
- Register Here
- Event: 3D Printing at Central Library
- Date & Time: Monday, June 30, 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: Cricut Design Space for Beginners
- Date & Time: Sunday, July 06, 2:00pm
- Location: Fort Ben 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: Create Digital Designs with Canva.com
- Date & Time: Saturday, July 19, 10:00am
- Location: Glendale 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
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!