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photoshop

UK/ˈfəʊ.təʊ.ʃɒp//ˈfoʊ.toʊ.ʃɑp/

photoshop verb: to digitally edit or alter (a picture or photograph).

Verb (1)

photoshop (third-person singular simple present photoshops, present participle photoshopping, simple past and past participle photoshopped)

  1. (transitive, usually, trademark) 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).1995 September 24, “Some surf the Net, others quiver on the shore”, in The Record, Hackensack, New Jersey, page 167

Noun (1)

photoshop (plural photoshops)

  1. A digitally altered image.
    • I reckon the image is a photoshop.

Proper noun capitalized: Photoshop

Photoshop

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

Verb (2) capitalized: Photoshop

Photoshop (third-person singular simple present Photoshops, present participle Photoshopping, simple past and past participle Photoshopped)

  1. (Internet, 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.2020, N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became, Orbit, page 184

Noun (2) capitalized: Photoshop

Photoshop (plural Photoshops)

  1. 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.2011, Cole Stryker, “The Meme Life Cycle”, in Epic Win for Anonymous: How 4chan’s Army Conquered the Web, New York, N.Y.; London: Overlook Duckworth, →ISBN, page 214
    • 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.2016 October, Dana Perino, quoting FiveFan [pseudonym], “Introducing @FiveFanPhotoshops”, in Let Me Tell You about Jasper… How My Best Friend Became America’s Dog, New York, N.Y.; Boston, Mass....

photoshop meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali

photoshop in Hindi

फ़ोटोशॉप, फ़ोटोशॉप करना

photoshop in Tamil

ஃபோட்டோஷாப் செய்ய

photoshop in Marathi

to digitally edit a picture
फोटोशॉप करणे phoṭośŏp karṇe

photoshop in Bengali

ফটোশপ, ফটোশপ করা
More languagesFewer languages
photoshop in Telugu
ఫోటోషాప్, ఫోటోషాప్కు, ఫోటోషాప్కి
photoshop in Malayalam
ഫോട്ടോഷോപ്പിലേക്ക്
photoshop in Kannada
ಫೋಟೊಶಾಪ್, ಫೋಟೊಶಾಪ್ಗೆ
photoshop in Gujarati
ફોટોશોપ, ફ઼ોટોશોપ
photoshop in Odia
ଫଟୋସପ୍, ଫଟୋସପ୍ କରିବା
photoshop in Nepali
फोटोसपमा
photoshop in Thai
โฟโตชอป foo-dtôo-chɔ̀p

Examples of photoshop in a sentence

  • He then Photoshopped it (a new verb; you heard it first here) and produced two volumes of fantastic art.1997 May 6, PC Magazine, New York: Ziff Davis, page 89:
  • People thought it was Photoshopped in, but it was the real thing.2004 May 20, “PS...”, in The Times (People section), number 68080, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6:

Forms of photoshop

Verb
third-person singular presentphotoshops
present participlephotoshopping
past participlephotoshopped
pastphotoshopped
alternative formPhotoshop
third-person singular presentPhotoshops
present participlePhotoshopping
past participlePhotoshopped
pastPhotoshopped
Noun
pluralphotoshops
pluralPhotoshops

Past tense of photoshop: photoshopped

Origin of photoshop

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.

Renamed by its cocreator Thomas Knoll, from photo + shop.

Words formed from photoshop

Questions about photoshop

What does photoshop mean?
Photoshop means to digitally edit or alter (a picture or photograph).
What is photoshop in Hindi?
Photoshop in Hindi is फ़ोटोशॉप, फ़ोटोशॉप करना. See Photoshop meaning in Hindi.
How do you use photoshop in a sentence?
He then Photoshopped it (a new verb; you heard it first here) and produced two volumes of fantastic art.
What part of speech is photoshop?
Photoshop can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce photoshop?
Photoshop is pronounced /ˈfəʊ.təʊ.ʃɒp/ (UK).
What is the past tense of photoshop?
The past tense of photoshop is photoshopped.

Words near photoshop in the dictionary

  1. photoshocked
  2. photoshocking
  3. photoshocks
  4. photoshoot
  5. photoshoots
  6. photoshop
  7. photoshopped
  8. photoshopper
  9. photoshoppers
  10. photoshopping
  11. photoshops

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Adapted from Wiktionary: photoshop (page history and authors); Photoshop (page history and authors); photoshop (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); photoshop (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); photoshop (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); photoshop (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); photoshop (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); photoshop (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); photoshop (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); photoshop (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); photoshop (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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