what is photo shopping pictures?

Question

I read this expression in a very recent question & I am clueless as to what it is! Anyone able to explain it to me?

Answer 1

Photoshopping is when you edit a picture, for example the way they remove imperfections from the pictures of women that they put on magazine covers.

Another kind of photoshopping is when someone takes a picture of someone and puts their face on someone else's body.

It's named after the Adobe program "Photoshop", but you can also "photoshop" pictures with other programs such as Jasc's "Paint Shop Pro" or the open-source "GIMP".

Answer 2

Photoshopping, or simply "shopping", 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, Corel Photopaint, or the GIMP may be used. Adobe discourages use of the term "photoshop" as a verb [1] out of fear that it will undermine the company's trademark; for this reason, some people have called it photochopping.

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. The shorter term "shopped" is also frequently used to describe an image that has obviously been edited.


The EverCrack box cover is an example of photoshopped packaging.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. Another example, commonly seen in MAD Magazine, involves the “rebranding” of products for satirical purposes; this is often difficult, because new letters must be drawn that match the style of an existing logo.

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

Many Photoshopped images are propagated memetically via e-mail as humour or passed as actual news. Some well known images include Every time you masturbate... God kills a kitten and Shark and Helicopter. The latter image was widely circulated as a National Geographic 'Image of the Year' and was later revealed to be a hoax.[2]

Answer 3

Photoshopping 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.

Answer 4

Its editing pictures through the program photoshop which allows you to manipulate/edit pictures for your liking. It also offers you a more professional look to your pictures ( these pictures are pictures you take with your digital camera,pictures taken on a video camera that plugs into the PC or scanned pictures from normal photographs). There are all different versions of photoshop by different software producers but adobe do one:

http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/


http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=photoshop
<<< a easy way to find out in normal,easy language what photoshop is. (Great website if you don't know a slang word that you've heard online or offline...!) Stops you from looking stupid lol, I use it all the time.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoshop <<<< this explains the whole concept and experience of photoshop.

Answer 5

Editing and modifying a photo through Adobe Photoshop

Answer 6

It is editing a picture in Photoshop. Adobe Photoshop is one of the image manipulation and graphic design industry standard software tools.

Answer 7

The manipulation of a picture through the use of a program called "Adobe Photoshop".

Answer 8

Photo Shop is a graphical program to make and enhance pictures.

You can make photo's look better or different. Add or delete persons. Make fire look bigger, more dead people, put the head of a celebrity on a nude body... you get the picture.

Like Googeling it became a word for what it is used for.

Answer 9

Its when you use a program such as Adobe Photoshop to digitally inhance or alter the image. Such as placing your image into the photo with a celebrity or president.

Answer 10

photoshopping is the art of manipulating images with photoshop.
It can be as basic as pasting the face of a celeb on a nude body or as complex as creating original pieces of art from a variety of sources.
In most cases this is done using photoshop from Adobe systems