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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 Audition – Curious About Podcasting or Recording?
  • Date & Time: Friday, March 27, 2:00pm
  • Location: Online
  • 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
  • Event: Build A Website with Wix
  • Date & Time: Monday, March 30, 5:30pm
  • Location: East 38th Street Branch
  • Description: Learn how to design a website using the Wix easy-to-use editor. Whether you’re a small business owner, entrepreneur, or a creative, you’ll leave with the skills to design a site that represents you.
  • Register Here
  • Event: 3D Printing at Central Library
  • Date & Time: Monday, March 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: Microsoft Powerpoint Series
  • Date & Time: Saturday, April 04, 2:00pm
  • Location: Franklin Road Branch
  • Description: Turn ideas into stand-out slides! Build engaging slides by adding text, images, and other visual elements. Whether you’re new to PowerPoint or looking to sharpen your skills, this session will help you present with clarity and confidence.
  • 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.

Title - Photoshop Elements 2022Title - Photoshop ElementsTitle - Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic for DummiesTitle - Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic

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

Title - The MakerTitle - The Unofficial Book of Cricut CraftsTitle - Cutting Machine Crafts With your Cricut, Sizzix, or SilhouetteTitle - Cricut Crafts

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.

Title - Title - 3D PrintingTitle - Getting Started With 3D PrintingTitle - Digital Modelmaking