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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: Microsoft Powerpoint Series
  • Date & Time: Tuesday, July 07, 10:30am
  • Location: Pike 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
  • Event: Breezy Bottle Stickers with Cricut
  • Date & Time: Tuesday, July 07, 12:00pm
  • Location: College Avenue Branch
  • Description: Thirsting for hot flair while hiking or biking across your favorite park or trail this summer? Stay cool and collected fabricating a vinyl sticker for your favorite water bottle using a Cricut machine!
  • Register Here
  • Event: Adobe Audition – Curious About Podcasting or Recording?
  • Date & Time: Tuesday, July 07, 5:30pm
  • Location: Central Library
  • Description: Curious about podcasting or recording? 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: Friday, July 10, 10:30am
  • Location: Glendale 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: The Gurl/Bro Code
  • Date & Time: Saturday, July 11, 11:00am
  • Location: Central Library
  • Description: Get ready to dive into a fun, hands-on creative tech session where you’ll bring your coolest ideas to life.
  • Register Here
  • Event: Digital Creativity Open Lab
  • Date & Time: Sunday, July 12, 1:00pm
  • 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
  • Event: Microsoft Powerpoint Series
  • Date & Time: Tuesday, July 14, 10:30am
  • Location: Pike 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
  • Event: Adobe Photoshop Series
  • Date & Time: Tuesday, July 14, 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: Building a Website with Wix: Level 2
  • Date & Time: Friday, July 17, 10:30am
  • Location: Glendale Branch
  • Description: We’ve curated resources to help you continue developing your website. Whether you’re ready to add new features or still have questions, we’re here to provide guidance. Strengthen your site at your own pace and choose the features that best support your goals and needs.
  • 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