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Digital modifications and manipulation
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Photoshopping
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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 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
eamless. The shorter term "shopped" is also frequently used to describe an image that has obviously been edited.
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 often requires
specialized skills including type design, because new letters must be drawn that match the style of an existing logo.
The style and techniques of photoshopping were anticipated as early as the late 1960s, particularly by the surreal album cover photography of the British design group Hipgnosis.
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