photoshop

See also: Photoshop

English

Alternative forms

• Photoshop

Etymology

From 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.

Verb

photoshop (third-person singular simple present photoshops, present participle photoshopping, simple past and past participle photoshopped)

1. (transitive, Internet) To digitally edit or alter a picture or photograph.

Noun

photoshop (plural photoshops)

1. A digitally altered image.

Usage notes

Both the verb and noun uses have been discouraged by Adobe for trademark reasons (see references).

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:photoshop.

Derived terms

• photoshopped, Photoshopped
• shoop

Related terms

• composite
• collage
• montage
• muscle morph

Translations

to digitally edit a picture

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 執相／执相 (zap¹ soeng^3-2)

  Mandarin: PS (pi'aisi), P (zh) (pī), P圖／P图 (pī tú), 修圖／修图 (zh) (xiūtú), 美圖／美图 (měitú)

• Danish: fotomanipulere, photoshoppe
• Dutch: fotoshoppen (nl)
• Finnish: photoshopata (fi)
• French: photoshoper (fr)
• German: photoshoppen (de) (rare)
• Hungarian: photoshoppol
• Japanese: フォトショする (fotosho suru)
• Marathi: फोटोशॉप करणे (phoṭośŏp karṇe)
• Polish: fotoszopować (pl), photoshopować (pl)
• Russian: фотошопить (ru) (fotošopitʹ)
• Spanish: photoshopear, fotoshopear
• Swedish: photoshoppa (sv)
• Thai: โฟโตชอป (foo-dtôo-chɔ̀p)

References

Permissions and Trademark Guidelines on Adobe.com.

Spanish

Noun

photoshop m (plural photoshops)

1. photoshop