Monthly Archives: May 2011

Data Exhaust

Earlier this week I attended the Duke Library’s Instructional Retreat titled Using Data in the Classroom.  The half-day event hoped to teach the library staff (and others, like myself) all about data – how / where to find it, how to use it, how to visualize it, and all the associated tools for those tasks. [...]

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Quickly Adding Life to a Dull Photo: Levels, Curves, & Vibrance

Written by MPS Consultant Alikiah Barclay – for more help with this topic, visit Alikiah at the MPS during his scheduled hours, visible on our Live Schedule. Often photographs come out just a bit washed out. Especially when your camera is nothing fancy, some photos with great potential may simply seem dull.  However, resurrecting these [...]

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Animating Text in Adobe After Effects

Written by MPS Consultant Angie Yu – for more help with this topic, visit Angie at the MPS during her scheduled hours, visible on our Live Schedule. To add text, select the Text tool (the “T”) in the Tools window and click anywhere on the Composition. To change the text style, there is a Character [...]

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How to make a cheap online portfolio

Written by MPS Consultant Sarah Goetz – for more help with this topic, visit Sarah at the MPS during her scheduled hours, visible on our Live Schedule. Webfiles & Hosting included portfolio/blog sites such as Cargo Collective or WordPress.org are good free ways to host a portfolio online.

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Vector-style in Photoshop

Written by MPS Consultant Jaewoo Lee – for more help with this topic, visit Jae at the MPS during his scheduled hours, visible on our Live Schedule. Vector art is a style of art that is created using shapes, objects, and lines that are composed from paths and points.  It is different from regular graphic [...]

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  • New MPS West Now Open!

    The new MPS in 006 Bostock is officially open! Come see us in our new location near the Link in the lower level of Bostock.

    The Old Chem branch of the Multimedia Project Studio is now permanently closed.

  • What is the MPS?

    The Multimedia Project Studios are a series of high-end computer labs located at Duke University. We feature cutting edge equipment and industry standard software and are staffed by a corps of student Multimedia Consultants who are available to help you out with your project on a one-on-one basis, but are not able to do production work on your behalf.
    MPS Lab Locations & Hours
    MPS East
    115 Lilly Library
    The MPS in Lilly is open whenever the library is open. Check their site for hours, which can change during holidays and academic breaks.

    MPS West
    006 Bostock
    The MPS in Bostock is open whenever the library is open. Check their site for hours, which can change during holidays and academic breaks.




    Staffed Hours for Both Locations

    Winter, summer, and other break hours will vary, according to student consultant availability. To check consultants' availability, view our Live Schedule.

    Sunday - Thursday: noon to midnight
    Friday: noon to six
    Be sure to check our Live Schedule to see who will be on staff and our staff page to meet our talented consultants.