Photography
App Review: Pxture – Creating text using photos
Teen librarian Karen Jensen reviews a new photo app that allows you to quickly add text to photos for social media, including filling a text with photo
Tech and MakerSpace Review: Instax Wide Instant Photo Printer
Teen Librarian Karen Jensen is talking photo printers in libraries again, this type reviewing the new Instax Wide printer with the QR code feature.
Tech Tip: A Quick and Easy Way to Make 1.25 Buttons
Teen Librarian Karen Jensen shares a quick and easy way to make personal photo buttons on the 1.25 button maker
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TPIB: Photo Word Bookmarks (Or Instagram Photo Booth Strip Looking Bookmarks)
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View from Behind the Lens: It’s a Wrap! a guest post by Lynette Pitrak
My previous post detailed the first half of View from Behind the Lens, an eight-week advanced photography workshop for middle school and high school students. In the first few weeks of class, Downers Grove-based instructor Mike Taylor and I worked on teaching the students camera basics, various types of photography shoots, and working with both […]
How Did You Do That? Photo Apps Version
I get a lot of email where people ask how I created such and such of a graphic. Today, I thought I would share some of my favorite tips, tricks, and filters. A decent portion of my current teen programming involves teaching teens how to do fun photo tricks and then to translate that into […]
View from Behind the Lens: Advanced Photography for Teens, a Guest Post by Lynette Pitrak
In the fall and winter of 2014, I had an amazing experience coordinating a filmmaking workshop for high school students called View from the Director’s Chair. To highlight a different aspect of our library’s Media Lab this year, our IT Department Manager and I created a similarly-structured workshop called View from Behind the Lens. View […]
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