Dictionary

photoshop en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈfəʊ.təʊ.ʃɒp/ (UK)
• (US) audio
• /ˈfoʊ.toʊ.ʃɑp/ (US)

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.

Meanings

1. A digitally altered image.
   • I reckon the image is a photoshop.

Forms

Translations (2)

pl fotoszop (digitally altered picture) · nl fotoshop (digitally altered picture)

wikipedia: offset lithography · wikipedia: Adobe Photoshop

photoshop en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˈfəʊ.təʊ.ʃɒp/ (UK)
• (US) audio
• /ˈfoʊ.toʊ.ʃɑp/ (US)

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.

Meanings

1. (qualifier:trademark, transitive, usually) To digitally edit or alter (a picture or photograph).
   • 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). 1995 September 24, “Some surf the Net, others quiver on the shore”, in The Record, Hackensack, New Jersey, page 167:
   • She charged that the prosecutor had photoshopped the image to incriminate her.
   • 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. 1997 May 6, PC Magazine, New York: Ziff Davis, page 89:
   • 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? 2004 May 20, “PS...”, in The Times (People section), number 68080, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6:

Forms

Deriveds

photoshopper · photoshopped · Photoshopped · photochop · shoop · shop

Relateds

collage · composite · montage · muscle morph

Translations (23)

cmn P (pī) (to digitally edit a picture) · hu photoshoppol (to digitally edit a picture) · cmn PS (pi'aisi) (to digitally edit a picture) · pt photoshopar (to digitally edit a picture) · ru фотошопить (to digitally edit a picture) · da fotomanipulere (to digitally edit a picture) · pl sfotoszopować (to digitally edit a picture) · mr फोटोशॉप करणे (to digitally edit a picture) · da photoshoppe (to digitally edit a picture) · sv photoshoppa (to digitally edit a picture) · cmn 修圖 /修图 (to digitally edit a picture) · pl fotoszopować (to digitally edit a picture) · es photoshopear (to digitally edit a picture) · th โฟโตชอป (to digitally edit a picture) · es fotoshopear (to digitally edit a picture) · nl fotoshoppen (to digitally edit a picture) · cmn 美圖 /美图 (to digitally edit a picture) · fr photoshoper (to digitally edit a picture) · de photoshoppen (to digitally edit a picture) · cmn P圖 /P图 (to digitally edit a picture) · yue 執相 /执相 (to digitally edit a picture) · fi photoshopata (to digitally edit a picture) · ja フォトショする (to digitally edit a picture)

wikipedia: offset lithography · wikipedia: Adobe Photoshop