"Photoshop" meaning in English

See Photoshop in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Photoshop.wav [US]
Etymology: Renamed by its cocreator Thomas Knoll, from photo + shop. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|photo|shop}} photo + shop Head templates: {{en-prop}} Photoshop
  1. (software, trademark) A raster graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Inc.
    Sense id: en-Photoshop-en-name-22K5lT5g Categories (other): English trademarks, Software, English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Polish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 60 22 18 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 59 24 17 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 65 19 16 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 60 22 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 64 20 15 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 63 21 16 Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences, software

Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Photoshop.wav [US] Forms: Photoshops [plural]
Etymology: Renamed by its cocreator Thomas Knoll, from photo + shop. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|photo|shop}} photo + shop Head templates: {{en-noun}} Photoshop (plural Photoshops)
  1. Alternative letter-case form of photoshop (“a digitally altered image”). Tags: alt-of Alternative form of: photoshop (extra: a digitally altered image) Translations (program): Photoshop (Photoshop) (Japanese), Photoshop [animate, masculine] (Polish)
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Verb

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Photoshop.wav [US] Forms: Photoshops [present, singular, third-person], Photoshopping [participle, present], Photoshopped [participle, past], Photoshopped [past]
Etymology: Renamed by its cocreator Thomas Knoll, from photo + shop. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|photo|shop}} photo + shop Head templates: {{en-verb|++}} Photoshop (third-person singular simple present Photoshops, present participle Photoshopping, simple past and past participle Photoshopped)
  1. (transitive, Internet) Alternative letter-case form of photoshop (“to digitally edit or alter a picture or photograph”). Tags: Internet, alt-of, transitive Alternative form of: photoshop (extra: to digitally edit or alter a picture or photograph)
    Sense id: en-Photoshop-en-verb-gHGy2QNr Categories (other): Internet

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-16 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (d6fca27 and 65e1673). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.