photoshop
/ˈfoʊ.toʊ.ʃɑp/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.78 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Alternative letter-case form of photoshop (“to digitally edit or alter a picture or photograph”).
Transitive verb
noun
Alternative letter-case form of photoshop (“a digitally altered image”).
Example Sentences
- "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?"
- "I reckon the image is a photoshop."
- "Almost as if the building has been Photoshopped for greater sharpness while the rest of the block retains a fuzzier contrast."
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.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈfoʊ.toʊ.ʃɑp/
- British English: /ˈfəʊ.təʊ.ʃɒp/