photochop

English

Etymology 1

From photo- +‎ chop.

Verb

photochop (third-person singular simple present photochops, present participle photochopping, simple past and past participle photochopped)

1. (electronics, transitive) To convert, by chopping, a DC (or slowly varying AC) input signal into a higher frequency signal.
   • 1963, Instrumentation Technology - Volume 10, Issues 1-6, page 15:

     This d-c signal is then photochopped in a solid-state oscillation circuit and the resulting a-c signal amplified.

   • 1990, Narendra S. Goel, John M. Norman, Instrumentation for Studying Vegetation Canopies for Remote Sensing in Optical and Thermal Infrared Regions, →ISBN:

     Models 2030 and 2031 provided with photochopped voltage pulse and DC voltage signals, respectively.

   • 2012, Gerald Stanhill, Advances in Bioclimatology, →ISBN, page 17:

     For photochopped anemometers, external power is required to power a light beam that is chopped by a rotating slotted disk.

Etymology 2

Blend of photoshop +‎ chop

Verb

photochop (third-person singular simple present photochops, present participle photochopping, simple past and past participle photochopped)

1. (informal, transitive) To digitally alter (an image), especially sloppily or badly; to photoshop.
   • 2008 May 19, zcar...@yahoo.com, “Re: Great picture of Federer”, in rec.sport.tennis‎^[1] (Usenet):

     lame. at least do a better job of photochopping.

   • 2008 October 18, David Moss, “Re: Ordog apologises for Islamic death penalty for people changing their religion”, in aus.politics‎^[2] (Usenet):

     Are you going to claim the Franciscan Friars photochopped their own photo for their own website?

Noun

photochop (plural photochops)

1. (informal) A digitally altered image, especially in a bad or sloppy way.
   • 2004 June 30, Racefan_Dan, “Re: Reconfiguring Bus Stop at Spa”, in rec.autos.sport.f1‎^[3] (Usenet):

     THIS IS NO JOKE - it is NOT a photochop.

   • 2011 March 17, Lesmond, “Re: Karrde in the House”, in alt.tv.american-idol‎^[4] (Usenet):

     And a pic of her yawning that was begging for a photochop.

   • 2011 November 24, Tim Gavin, “Re: [RBW] Re: Anyone order a Joe?”, in RBW Owners Bunch‎^[5] (Usenet):

     Pardon my lousy photochop.