photoshop

• Photoshop

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.

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

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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?

• Both the verb and noun uses have been discouraged by Adobe for trademark reasons.^[1]

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photoshop (plural photoshops)

1. A digitally altered image.

   I reckon the image is a photoshop.

Unadapted borrowing from English photoshop.

• IPA^(key): /fotoˈʃop/ [fo.t̪oˈʃop]
• IPA^(key): (chiefly Spain) /fotoˈsop/ [fo.t̪oˈsop]
• Rhymes: -op
• Syllabification: pho‧to‧shop

photoshop m (plural photoshops)

1. photoshop

According to Royal 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.