Photoshop

[foh-toh-shop]

Trademark.

1. a brand name for computer software used to digitally alter digital photographs or other graphics.

verb (used with object)

Photoshopped, Photoshopping 

1. (often lowercase),  to digitally alter (a photograph or other graphic) using image-editing software such as Photoshop.

   Her face is nicely Photoshopped in the ad.

   They’ve photoshopped the car onto an image of a beautiful beach.

Photoshop

/ ˈfəʊtəʊˌʃɒp /

verb

1. (tr) to alter (a digital photograph or other image), using an image editing application, especially Adobe Photoshop

Word History and Origins

Origin of Photoshop¹

First recorded in 1990–95

Example Sentences

Using Photoshop, he fills in the number of days.

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Brooks was arrested and told officers: "It was really just pettiness on the part of people - I know I shouldn't have done that, I shouldn't have done Photoshop."

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Go ahead and Photoshop your cat into ultrasound photos; send your nosy in-laws a holiday card of you and your dog frolicking in the snow; celebrate the relationships you have instead of waiting around for the ones you don’t.

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I love just the continuity of our props department is hilarious in that I think Season 1 we took the picture with Gritty and she says, “Oh, this is cute picture I’m gonna have to Photoshop Janine out.”

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"It's something we do today in Photoshop relatively easily but in the late 1850s and mid-19th Century it was a pretty groundbreaking technique," said Dr Pritchard.

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When To Use

What does photoshopped mean?

When a graphic or photograph has been photoshopped, it has been altered in some way using digital image-editing software like its namesake, the program Photoshop.While so much of media is professionally edited, calling something photoshopped specifically suggests it is fake or misleading—often to subjectively alter the appearance of a celebrity or to spread disinformation.Note: As a noun, Photoshop is a proprietary name, and so is capitalized. Used as a generic verb in popular contexts, Photoshop is often written as a lowercase photoshop (cf. google for “to search online” ).How is photoshopped pronounced?[ foh-toh-shopd ]What are some other forms of photoshopped?PhotoshoppedWhat are some other words related to photoshopped?airbrushretouch