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 Creations: Faux Leather Key Chain
- Date & Time: Tuesday, May 26, 2:00pm
- Location: Southport 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. This program is designed to be hands on to discover different project possibilities with various Cricut tools and materials.
- Register Here
- Event: Adobe Audition – Curious About Podcasting or Recording?
- Date & Time: Tuesday, May 26, 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: Building a Website with Wix: Level 2
- Date & Time: Friday, May 29, 10:30am
- Location: Michigan Road 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
- Event: Adobe Photoshop Series
- Date & Time: Monday, June 01, 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: Stunning Summer Flyers with Canva
- Date & Time: Tuesday, June 02, 12:00pm
- Location: College Avenue Branch
- Description: Eager to hype your upcoming summer party or a new business enterprise, but not sure where to start? Learn how easy it is to construct your very own flyer in Canva, a powerful yet easy-to-use graphic design tool!
- Register Here
- Event: Adobe Audition – Curious About Podcasting or Recording?
- Date & Time: Tuesday, June 02, 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: Adobe Photoshop Series
- Date & Time: Monday, June 08, 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: Digital Creativity Open Lab
- Date & Time: Sunday, June 14, 1:00pm
- 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: Sunday, June 14, 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: Getting Started with Cricut Design Space
- Date & Time: Tuesday, June 16, 5:30pm
- Location: Beech Grove 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 our introductory class. Whether its cardstock, fabric, or vinyl, this process can bring your projects to life.
- 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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