Genericized trademark ofAdobe Photoshop, a widely-used graphics editor. This may in turn have been derived from its usage to refer to the camera room in theoffset lithography process, where laid up pages could be extensively retouched before being transferred to the printing plates.
photoshop (third-person singular simple presentphotoshops,present participlephotoshopping,simple past and past participlephotoshopped)
- (trademark, media, computing, usually transitive) Todigitally edit or alter (apicture or photograph).
She charged that the prosecutor hadphotoshopped the image to incriminate her.
1995 September 24, “Some surf the Net, others quiver on the shore”, inThe Record, Hackensack, New Jersey, page167: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, page89:Ned Shaw, a former illustrator forPC Magazine, has gathered a huge collection of classic examples from such artists and illustrators as Maxfield Parish and Edmund Dulac. He thenPhotoshopped 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...”, inThe Times (People section), number68080, London:News UK,→ISSN,→OCLC, page 6:The feisty brunette star ofThe Mummy [sc. Rachel Weisz] boasts: "I really did hold that snake. People thought it wasPhotoshopped in, but it was the real thing. I had to stay relaxed." What about the snake?
- Both the verb and noun uses have been discouraged by Adobe for trademark reasons.[1]
to digitally edit a picture
photoshop (pluralphotoshops)
- Adigitallyalteredimage.
I reckon the image is aphotoshop.
digitally altered picture
Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishphotoshop.
- IPA(key): /fotoˈʃop/[fo.t̪oˈʃop]
- IPA(key): (chiefly Spain)/fotoˈsop/[fo.t̪oˈsop]
- Rhymes:-op
- Syllabification:pho‧to‧shop
photoshop m (pluralphotoshops)
- photoshop
According toRoyal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
