Meanings
photoshopper1
Photoshopper2
plural Photoshoppers · alternative photoshopper
- One who digitally alters photographs.
Each band is composed of a Hypertextualist, a Multimedium, and a Photoshopper, and these form “guilds” for working in the computer lab.
1999, Anne B. Keating, Joseph Hargitai, The Wired Professor, A Guide to Incorporating the World Wide Web in College Instruction, NYU Press, page 985 more examples
The theorist Brett Steele sees in Mies van der Rohe the fist ‘Photoshopper’, the architect who anticipated our present-day modes of producing and processing imagery.
2004, L'Architecture d'aujourd'hui, nn 350–351, University of Michigan, p 104The memes we have interrogated can be seen as associated with – and, indeed, as helping to define – different kinds of affinity spaces. These include gamer spaces, photoshopper spaces, manga/anime spaces, left-leaning political spaces, ‘good’ community member spaces, Asian popular culture fan spaces, among others.
2006, Colin Lankshear, Michele Knobel, New Literacies: Everyday Practices & Classroom Learning, 2nd edition, Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill International, page 231Furthermore, Talbot's art is dominated by an overkill of digital filters, fades and effects, applied with the zealous fervour of a born-again Photoshopper.
2007, Blueprint, nn 258-261After she took their order, Nick refilled their cups from the carafe Maria had left on the table and asked, “You claim you're not a Photoshopper, so what do you do—besides pound on doors at the crack of dawn?”
2011, Jacquie D'Aessandro, Summer at Seaside Cove, Penguin[p 60] In fact, the photo is a fake. Jane Fonda was added by a photoshopper to discredit Kerry during the 2004 presidential campaign. [p 108] Those photographs comprise a trove of near-at-hand raw materials for the photoshopper's art. News photos are on the Web for the taking—and faking.
2011, Russell Frank, Newslore: Contemporary Folklore on the Internet, University Press of Mississippi
Origin
Photoshopper · noun
From Photoshop (“Adobe Photoshop graphics software”, verb) + -er (“agent noun”).
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