Photoshopper
See also: photoshopper
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Photoshop (“Adobe Photoshop graphics software”, verb) + -er (“agent noun”).
Noun
editPhotoshopper (plural Photoshoppers)
- One who digitally alters photographs.
- 1999, Anne B. Keating, Joseph Hargitai, The Wired Professor, A Guide to Incorporating the World Wide Web in College Instruction, NYU Press, page 98:
- Each band is composed of a Hypertextualist, a Multimedium, and a Photoshopper, and these form “guilds” for working in the computer lab.
- 2004, L'Architecture d'aujourd'hui, nn 350–351, University of Michigan, p 104:
- 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.
- 2006, Colin Lankshear, Michele Knobel, New Literacies: Everyday Practices & Classroom Learning, 2nd edition, Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill International, page 231:
- The 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.
- 2007, Blueprint, nn 258-261:
- Furthermore, Talbot's art is dominated by an overkill of digital filters, fades and effects, applied with the zealous fervour of a born-again Photoshopper.
- 2011, Jacquie D'Aessandro, Summer at Seaside Cove, Penguin:
- After 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, Russell Frank, Newslore: Contemporary Folklore on the Internet, University Press of Mississippi:
- [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.