Photoshop
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Usage
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
Etymology
Origin of Photoshop
First recorded in 1990–95
Example Sentences
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Photoshop him into a 2005 summit meeting alongside Tony Blair, George W. Bush and Jacques Chirac, and he’d fit right in.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
On Facebook and Reddit combined, there are dozens of groups and threads dedicated to Photoshop requests.
From Slate ● Jul. 19, 2026
As Gray worked with old, yellowing scans of Lee’s drawings in Photoshop, he accidentally inverted the colors.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2026
Adobe owns software programs such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and Firefly, with customers spanning from large enterprises to individual consumers.
From Barron's ● Jan. 9, 2026
“You’d better! Photoshop me into a few,” I say to Mya, who is a wizard at Adobe.
From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott
The staginess that sinks many of his other pictures portended a digital age where all images would trend toward idealized, Photoshopped perfection.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
One particularly disturbing 2019 A1 that was surely the star of many nightmares even showed the faces of Trump and Vladimir Putin Photoshopped together.
From Slate ● Feb. 9, 2025
Photoshopped images and memes - and even doctored audio of politicians - have been around for decades.
From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2023
However, after Greene shared the photograph on Sunday night, commenters on Twitter quickly pointed out that it was Photoshopped.
From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2023
And this is the girl who once told our entire math class she was related to Beyoncé and showed up the next day with Photoshopped pictures to prove it.
From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
Posts enable control over what we portray to others, and enhanced Photoshopping capabilities mean that pictures found online may not be bona fide anyway.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2025
Over the summer, a Twitter user had fun with that image, Photoshopping Dunbar’s logo over Omar’s head and putting Theodore Roosevelt’s logo over the neighborhood kids.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 1, 2021
But the internet, Photoshopping, cellphones, the transformation of parental Instagram accounts into virtual photo galleries, the flooding of images online — all those conspired to dampen her old business model.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2021
But would Ivanka really go through such trouble for a single photo in a series that otherwise doesn’t seem to exhibit any telltale signs of Photoshopping?
From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2020
“That’s almost as bad as Julian’s mom Photoshopping the picture,” Summer said.
From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio
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