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/ˈfəʊ.təʊ.ʃɒp/ · verb
(trademark, media, computing, usually transitive) 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?
I reckon the image is a photoshop.
Use photoshop when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Photoshop means (trademark, media, computing, usually transitive) To digitally edit or alter (a picture or photograph)..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
She charged that the prosecutor had photoshopped the image to incriminate her.
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