English Online Dictionary. What means photoshop? What does photoshop mean?
English
Alternative forms
- Photoshop
Etymology
Genericized trademark of 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.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈfəʊ.təʊ.ʃɒp/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈfoʊ.toʊ.ʃɑp/
Verb
photoshop (third-person singular simple present photoshops, present participle photoshopping, simple past and past participle photoshopped)
- (trademark, media, computing, usually transitive) To digitally edit or alter (a picture or photograph).
Translations
Noun
photoshop (plural photoshops)
- (uncommon) A digitally altered image.
Usage notes
- Both the verb and noun uses have been discouraged by Adobe for trademark reasons.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:photoshop.
Derived terms
- photoshopped, Photoshopped
- shoop
Related terms
- composite
- collage
- montage
- muscle morph
References
Spanish
Noun
photoshop m (plural photoshops)
- photoshop