photoshop

verb

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

   “She charged that the prosecutor had photoshopped the image to incriminate her.”

   “Photographs can be manipulated, too; while a "Photoshopped" image may look beautiful, it might not give a correct impression of a place (this is a whole other column).”

   “Ned Shaw, a former illustrator for PC Magazine, has gathered a huge collection of classic examples from such artists and illustrators as Maxfield Parish and Edmund Dulac. He then Photoshopped it (a new verb; you heard it first here) and produced two volumes of fantastic art. The cool part is that the product comes in two resolutions.”

   “The feisty brunette star of The Mummy [sc. Rachel Weisz] boasts: "I really did hold that snake. People thought it was Photoshopped in, but it was the real thing. I had to stay relaxed." What about the snake?”

2. (Internet, alt-of, transitive)Alternative letter-case form of photoshop (“to digitally edit or alter a picture or photograph”).

   “Almost as if the building has been Photoshopped for greater sharpness while the rest of the block retains a fuzzier contrast.”

noun

1. A digitally altered image.

   “I reckon the image is a photoshop.”

2. (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of photoshop (“a digitally altered image”).

   “While the jargon inspired by this meme will live forever, the Photoshops and remixes have mostly dried up.”

   “From there I kept up doing Photoshops revolving around things said on The Five, or my other favorite show, Red Eye, with plenty of Jasper adventures thrown in the mix.”

   “Every time a new person in my life became a target for the mob, it was hands-down more upsetting than any of the threats or creepy Photoshops or asinine accusations.”

name

1. A raster graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Inc.