photoshop

present singular third person photoshops · participle present photoshopping · participle past photoshopped · past photoshopped · alternative Photoshop

1. transitiveusuallytrademarkcomputingTo digitally edit or alter (a picture or photograph).

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

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   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

   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

plural photoshops · alternative Photoshop

1. A digitally altered image.

   I reckon the image is a photoshop.

1. trademarkcomputingA raster graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Inc.

present singular third person Photoshops · participle present Photoshopping · participle past Photoshopped · past Photoshopped

1. InternettransitiveAlternative letter-case form of photoshop (“to digitally edit or alter a picture or photograph”).

   Almost as if the building has been Photoshopped for greater sharpness while the rest of the block retains a fuzzier contrast.

   2020, N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became, Orbit, page 184

plural Photoshops

1. Alternative letter-case form of photoshop (“a digitally altered image”).

   While the jargon inspired by this meme will live forever, the Photoshops and remixes have mostly dried up.

   2011, Cole Stryker, “The Meme Life Cycle”, in Epic Win for Anonymous: How 4chan’s Army Conquered the Web, New York, N.Y.; London: Overlook Duckworth, →ISBN, page 214

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   From there I kept up doing Photoshops revolving around things said on The Five, or my other favorite show, Red Eye, with plenty of Jasper adventures thrown in the mix.

   2016 October, Dana Perino, quoting FiveFan [pseudonym], “Introducing @FiveFanPhotoshops”, in Let Me Tell You about Jasper… How My Best Friend Became America’s Dog, New York, N.Y.; Boston, Mass.: Twelve, →ISBN, page 132

   Every time a new person in my life became a target for the mob, it was hands-down more upsetting than any of the threats or creepy Photoshops or asinine accusations.

   2017 September, Zoë Quinn, “Cracks in My Armor”, in Crash Override: How GamerGate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate, New York, N.Y.: PublicAffairs, →ISBN, page 86