photoshop

See also: Photoshop

English

Alternative forms

• Photoshop

Etymology

Genericized trademark of Adobe Photoshop, a widely-used graphics editor. This may in turn have been derived from its usage to refer to the camera room in the offset lithography process, where laid up pages could be extensively retouched before being transferred to the printing plates.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfəʊ.təʊ.ʃɒp/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈfoʊ.toʊ.ʃɑp/

  • Audio (US):

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Verb

photoshop (third-person singular simple present photoshops, present participle photoshopping, simple past and past participle photoshopped)

1. (trademark, media, computing, usually transitive) To digitally edit or alter (a picture or photograph).

   She charged that the prosecutor had photoshopped the image to incriminate her.

   • 1995 September 24, “Some surf the Net, others quiver on the shore”, in The Record, Hackensack, New Jersey, page 167:

     Photographs can be manipulated, too; while a "Photoshopped" image may look beautiful, it might not give a correct impression of a place (this is a whole other column).

   • 1997 May 6, PC Magazine, New York: Ziff Davis, page 89:

     Ned Shaw, a former illustrator for PC Magazine, has gathered a huge collection of classic examples from such artists and illustrators as Maxfield Parish and Edmund Dulac. He then Photoshopped it (a new verb; you heard it first here) and produced two volumes of fantastic art. The cool part is that the product comes in two resolutions.

   • 2004 May 20, “PS...”, in The Times (People section), number 68080, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6:

     The feisty brunette star of The Mummy [sc. Rachel Weisz] boasts: "I really did hold that snake. People thought it was Photoshopped in, but it was the real thing. I had to stay relaxed." What about the snake?

Translations

to digitally edit a picture

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 執相 / 执相 (zap¹ soeng^3-2)

  Mandarin: PS (zh) (pi'aisi), P (zh) (pī), P圖 / P图 (pī tú), 修圖 / 修图 (zh) (xiūtú), 美圖 / 美图 (měitú)

• Danish: fotomanipulere, photoshoppe
• Dutch: fotoshoppen (nl)
• Finnish: photoshopata (fi)
• French: photoshoper (fr)
• German: photoshoppen (de) (rare)
• Hungarian: photoshoppol
• Japanese: フォトショする (fotosho suru)
• Marathi: फोटोशॉप करणे (phoṭośŏp karṇe)
• Polish: fotoszopować (pl), photoshopować (pl)
• Portuguese: photoshopar
• Russian: фотошопить (ru) (fotošopitʹ)
• Spanish: photoshopear, fotoshopear
• Swedish: photoshoppa (sv)
• Thai: โฟโตชอป (foo-dtôo-chɔ̀p)

Noun

photoshop (plural photoshops)

1. (uncommon) A digitally altered image.

   I reckon the image is a photoshop.

Usage notes

• Both the verb and noun uses have been discouraged by Adobe for trademark reasons.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:photoshop.

Derived terms

• photoshopped, Photoshopped
• shoop

Related terms

• composite
• collage
• montage
• muscle morph

Spanish

Noun

photoshop m (plural photoshops)

1. photoshop