Apr 17, 2026  
2025-2026 Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Catalog

CIS 184 - PhotoShop Graphics


Credit Hours: 3
Billable Contact Hours: 3
Prerequisites: CIS 130  
Session Cycle: FW

This course covers tools, features, and techniques of the image editing software Photoshop.

Notes:  

Business Division
Theory Hours: 
45

Learning Outcomes:  

  1. Identify and recognize Photoshop terminology, techniques, and features.
  2. Identify the steps, tools and techniques involved in creating, editing and printing graphics using Photoshop.
  3. Demonstrate ability to use creative thought processes, listening and reading skills and principles visual communication using Photoshop to communicate the intended message to the target audience.
  4. Demonstrate ability to plan, design, create, save, evaluate, modify and enhance various Photoshop graphic design elements and projects for print, web, and other forms of distribution.
  5. Demonstrate ability to consistently meet deadlines and work independently and/or as part of a team to create professional quality work using Photoshop.
  6. Demonstrate consistent adherence to ethics, legal guidelines and copyright laws.
  7. Evaluate and critique designs (including own designs) created in Photoshop using oral and/or written communication skills.
  8. Produce a body of work in Photoshop to add to a portfolio for entry level employment or transfer to a four-year college or university in the field of graphic design or related field.

 

Outcomes for this course apply to Graphic Design: Digital Media, A.A.S.  and Graphic Design: Illustration, A.A.S.  program outcomes A, B, C, D, & E