Photoshopping

Photoshopping or photochopping is the art and practice of digitally editing pictures with image editing software. The name comes from Adobe Photoshop, the image editor most commonly used for the practice, although other programs, such as Paint Shop Pro, Photopaint, or the GIMP may be used. Adobe discourages use of the term "photoshop" as a verb http://www.adobe.com/misc/trade.html#photoshop out of fear that it will undermine the company's trademark. The practice of photoshopping is possible because modern image editors made the work of altering images extremely easy, particularly with the clone tool.

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Image editing software - Adobe Photoshop - Paint Shop Pro - Photopaint - GIMP - Undermine - Trademark - Clone tool

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Although professional graphic artists and designers might describe elements of their work as "photoshopping", the practice is more commonly associated with creating visual jokes on Internet sites. In this way, photoshopping can be seen as another way of producing cartoons, but without the need to generate original drawings. As such, the edits can be done in a very basic way, so it is clear that the image has been altered (often humour is derived from this fact), or in a hyper-realistic way so that the changes are seamless.

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Visual - Joke - Internet - Cartoon - Drawing

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Examples of photoshopping include people changing a picture of a well known actress to make it appear as if she has posed nude. In other examples two or more pictures are combined together for humour value.

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Actress - Nude

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Similarly to photoshopping, some neologisms are derived from the names of other image editing packages, for example "to gimp up" an image.

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