The Digital Lab (virtually brought to you by BVAC) is holding an animation workshop in Adobe After Effects from 5PM to 7PM EST on Monday April 26th, open to all!
We’ll get to know the After Effects interface, learn about keyframes and effects, importing Illustrator components, and use these tools to make a short animation.
Email Jess at Jessica.L.Smith@Dartmouth.edu for the link to the Zoom session.
The Digital Lab (virtually brought to you by BVAC) is holding a workshop on vector editing in Adobe Illustrator from 5:30PM to 7:30PM ET on Thursday April 22nd on Zoom, open to all!
We’ll get to know the Illustrator interface, as well as learn how to create and edit vector shapes, work with strokes and fills, patterns, effects, import images, and finally how to save and export your vectors.
Email Jess at Jessica.L.Smith@Dartmouth.edu for the link to the Zoom session.
The Digital Lab (virtually brought to you by BVAC) is holding a workshop on vector editing in Inkscape from 5PM to 7PM ET on Monday April 19th on Zoom, open to all!
Inkscape is an open source vector software that allows you to make beautiful logos and other scalable designs. We’ll learn the interface and learn how make vector images with shapes and the pen tool, and how to incorporate text, colors, and patterns into your design.
Email Jess at Jessica.L.Smith@Dartmouth.edu for the link to the Zoom session.
The Digital Lab (virtually brought to you by BVAC) is holding a workshop on advanced video editing techniques in Adobe Premiere Pro from 5:30PM to 7:30PM ET on April 15th on Zoom.
We’ll cover color correction tools, keyframing, audio levels and cleanup, and discuss in-program effects! A basic knowledge of the Premiere Pro interface is required.
Email Jess at Jessica.L.Smith@Dartmouth.edu for the link to the Zoom session and more info!
The Digital Lab (brought to you virtually by BVAC) is holding a workshop on the basics of video editing in Adobe Premiere Pro from 5PM to 7PM ET on Monday April 12th on Zoom, open to all!
We’ll get to know the Premiere Pro interface, learn organization tools and basic editing tools, and discuss how to export the finished file to a viewable format!
Email Jess at Jessica.L.Smith@Dartmouth.edu for the link to the Zoom session and more info.
The Digital Lab (brought to you virtually by BVAC) is holding a photo editing workshop on Adobe Lightroom Classic from 5:30PM to 7:30PM ET on Thursday April 8th over Zoom, open to all!
We’ll cover importing and organizing your photo files, basic editing options, and how to export your images! (We’ll be looking at Lightroom Classic, but many of the mechanics will transfer to Lightroom CC.)
Email Jess at Jessica.L.Smith@Dartmouth.edu for the link to the Zoom session.
The Digital Lab (virtually brought to you by BVAC) is holding a Photoshop workshop on digital drawing and photo editing from 5PM to 7PM ET on Monday April 5th over Zoom, open to all!
We’ll get to know the Photoshop interface, learn some basic digital drawing and photo editing tools, as well as working with layers, importing other images, removing and replacing backgrounds, and more.
Email Jess at Jessica.L.Smith@Dartmouth.edu for the link to the Zoom session.
Join the Digital Lab (brought to you by BVAC) virtually over Zoom to learn
about the WordPress interface, and how to make and edit a WordPress website
using Dartmouth’s website hosting opportunities. We’ll look at pages and
posts, how to change your themes, and more! “Bring” your own website, make
one or borrow one!
The workshop runs from 5:30-7:30PM ET today (on Thursday April 1st)! Email Jess at
jess.smith@dartmouth.edu for the Zoom link!
Happy first day of class! The Digital Lab (brought to you by BVAC) is holding an informal drop-in session today from 5PM to 7PM ET to answer questions you might have relating to digital art and film software, to discuss any projects you might be working on that you need help with, or to chat about your digital projects in general! Open to all!
Here’s a direct link to the Zoom room!
Join the Digital Lab (brought to you by BVAC) virtually over Zoom to learn about making repeat patterns in Photoshop and Illustrator from 5-7PM ET on Tuesday March 2nd. Open to everyone!
Repeat patterns appear everywhere around us, from fabric to wallpaper and more. We’ll chat about different methods to prep a design for repeats, the relevant tools in PS and AI, and how you can design a pattern with just pen and paper!
Email Jess at Jessica.L.Smith@Dartmouth.edu for the link to the Zoom session!
The Digital Lab (virtually brought to you by BVAC) is holding a “Make a Podcast” workshop from 5:30-7:30PM ET on Feb 25th, open to everyone!
Collaborate with fellow attendees to build a hypothetical podcast and make a first episode. We’ll talk about building the story, choosing a tone and style, basic recording and audio editing skills, and talk about the different options to share a podcast with the world!
Email Jess at Jessica.L.Smith@Dartmouth.edu for the link to the Zoom session!
Join the Digital Lab (brought to you by BVAC) virtually over Zoom to learn about the WordPress interface, and how to make a WordPress website using Dartmouth’s website hosting opportunities. We’ll look at pages and posts, how to change your themes, and more! “Bring” your own website or make one!
The workshop runs from 5-7PM ET on Tuesday February 23rd. Email Jess at jessica.l.smith@dartmouth.edu for the Zoom link!
The Digital Lab (virtually brought to you by BVAC) is holding an animation workshop using Adobe After Effects from 5:30PM to 7:30PM EST on Feb 18th, open to everyone in the Dartmouth community!
We’ll get to know the After Effects interface, learn about keyframes and effects, importing Illustrator components, and use these tools to make a short animation.
The Digital Lab (virtually brought to you by BVAC) is holding a workshop on advanced video editing techniques in Adobe Premiere Pro from 5PM to 7PM ET on February 16th on Zoom.
We’ll cover color correction tools, changing clip speed, keyframing, audio levels and cleanup, and discussing options and tools for working with in-program effects! A basic knowledge of Premiere Pro is required.
Email Jess at Jessica.L.Smith@Dartmouth.edu for the link to the Zoom session and more info!
The Digital Lab (brought to you by BVAC) is holding a workshop on publishing
and typesetting in InDesign from 5:30-7:30PM ET on Thursday Feb 11th on Zoom,
open to all!
Learn how to use InDesign to layout manuals, theses, or pamphlets in an
organized and cohesive way. We’ll go over the basics of how to use the
interface, then delve deeper into some of the tools that make it a great thing
to use for text setting.
Email Jess at Jessica.L.Smith@Dartmouth.edu for the link to the Zoom session!
The Digital Lab (virtually brought to you by BVAC) is holding a workshop on
typesetting in Scribus from 5PM to 7PM ET on Tuesday February 9th, open to all!
Scribus is an open source publishing and page layout program that is useful for
making lovely PDFs and can be used for pamphlet, magazine, and booklet
production! We’ll look at the interface and lay out some text and images.
Email Jess at Jessica.L.Smith@Dartmouth.edu for the link to the Zoom session!
The Digital Lab (virtually brought to you by BVAC) is holding a workshop on sound editing in Audacity from 5:30PM to 7:30PM ET on Thursday February 4th on Zoom, open to all!
Audacity is an open source audio editing software. We’ll talk about how to record, edit the audio to reduce noise and make the audio as clear as possible, bring together outside tracks to make an interesting audio track, and some cool effects.
Email Jess at Jessica.L.Smith@Dartmouth.edu for the link to the Zoom session!
The Digital Lab (virtually brought to you by BVAC) is holding a workshop on sound editing in Adobe Audition from 5PM to 7PM ET on Tuesday February 2nd, open to all!
Adobe Audition is an audio editing software, and we’ll cover recording from a microphone, how to clean up extra noise in the audio and add/reduce echo, use external audio to create a mixed audio track.
Email Jess at Jessica.L.Smith@Dartmouth.edu for the link to the Zoom session!
The Digital Lab (virtually brought to you by BVAC) is holding a workshop on vector editing in Adobe Illustrator from 5:30PM to 7:30PM ET on Thursday January 28th on Zoom, open to all!
We’ll get to know the Illustrator interface, as well as learn how to create and edit vector shapes, work with strokes and fills, patterns, effects, import images, and finally how to save and export your vectors.
Email Jess at Jessica.L.Smith@Dartmouth.edu for the link to the Zoom session.
The Digital Lab (virtually brought to you by BVAC) is holding a workshop on vector editing in Inkscape from 5PM to 7PM ET on Tuesday January 26th on Zoom, open to all!
Inkscape is an open source vector software that allows you to make beautiful logos and other scalable designs. We’ll learn the interface and learn how make vector images with shapes and the pen tool, and how to incorporate text, colors, and patterns into your design.
Email Jess at Jessica.L.Smith@Dartmouth.edu for the link to the Zoom session.
The Digital Lab (virtually brought to you by BVAC) is holding a Photoshop workshop on digital drawing and photo editing from 5:30PM to 7:30PM ET on Thursday January 21st on Zoom, open to all!
We’ll get to know the Photoshop interface, learn some basic digital drawing and photo editing tools, as well as working with layers, importing other images, removing and replacing backgrounds, and more.
Email Jess at Jessica.L.Smith@Dartmouth.edu for the link to the Zoom session.
The Digital Lab is holding a workshop on the basics of video editing in DaVinci Resolve from 5:30PM to 7:30PM ET on January 14th on Zoom.
We will be covering the interface of the program, as well as the two video editing workflows, transitions, and we’ll lightly touch on color correcting, before learning how to export the final video!
Email Jess at Jessica.L.Smith@Dartmouth.edu for the link to the Zoom session and more info
The Digital Lab is holding a workshop on the basics of video editing in Adobe Premiere Pro from 5PM to 7PM ET on January 12th on Zoom.
We’ll get to know the Premiere Pro interface, learn basic organization and editing, add basic effects, and discuss how to best export the file to a viewable format!
Email Jess at Jessica.L.Smith@Dartmouth.edu for the link to the Zoom session and more info
Hope that the new year finds you all well!
Tonight will be the lab’s Question and Answer session!
This is a drop-in session to answer any questions you might have relating to digital art and film software, to discuss projects you might be working on that you need help with, or to chat about your projects in general!
This week in the Digital Lab we’re focusing on animation!
On Tuesday (10/20) at 5PM ET we’re looking at Adobe After Effects! We’ll get to know the After Effects interface, learn about keyframes and effects, and use these tools to make a short animation.
Then on Thursday (10/22) at 5:30 PM ET we have a guest instructor Peter Ciardelli who will be teaching rotoscoping. Rotoscoping is a method of drawing on top of film footage to create a realistic looking animated action. From Disney classics to shows like “Undone” on Amazon, rotoscoping can add a cool tool to your animating arsenal. Photoshop is required for this one!
To attend either or both of these workshops, email Jess at jess.smith@dartmouth.edu to sign up.