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).
Usage notes
- Both the verb and noun uses have been discouraged by Adobe for trademark reasons.
Derived terms
- photoshopped, Photoshopped
- shoop
Related terms
- composite
- collage
- montage
- muscle morph
Translations
Noun
photoshop (plural photoshops)
- A digitally altered image.
Translations
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Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English photoshop.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fotoˈʃop/ [fo.t̪oˈʃop]
- IPA(key): (chiefly Spain) /fotoˈsop/ [fo.t̪oˈsop]
- Rhymes: -op
- Syllabification: pho‧to‧shop
Noun
photoshop m (plural photoshops)
- photoshop
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.