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LAS14

(13,783 posts) Wed Aug 21, 2019, 10:12 AM Aug 2019

Is "photo-shop" now generic, like kleenex and xerox?

Are there other software packages that do the same thing?

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Is "photo-shop" now generic, like kleenex and xerox? (Original Post) LAS14 Aug 2019 OP

GIMP lapfog_1 Aug 2019 #1

So when a picture is altered with GIMP do we say it's "photoshopped?" LAS14 Aug 2019 #2

Yeah, probably... Wounded Bear Aug 2019 #3

Some do. TreasonousBastard Aug 2019 #4

I do... lapfog_1 Aug 2019 #6

yes IADEMO2004 Aug 2019 #5

I'd say 'Google,' as a verb, has achieved similar status Cirque du So-What Aug 2019 #7

Yes very much so. blugbox Aug 2019 #8

lapfog_1

(29,219 posts)

1. GIMP

Reply to LAS14 (Original post)

Wed Aug 21, 2019, 10:13 AM

Aug 2019

and it's free

LAS14

(13,783 posts)

2. So when a picture is altered with GIMP do we say it's "photoshopped?"

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Wed Aug 21, 2019, 10:15 AM

Aug 2019

Wounded Bear

(58,698 posts)

3. Yeah, probably...

Reply to LAS14 (Reply #2)

Wed Aug 21, 2019, 10:19 AM

Aug 2019

"Photoshop" has achieved generic verb status.

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)

4. Some do.

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Wed Aug 21, 2019, 10:21 AM

Aug 2019

lapfog_1

(29,219 posts)

6. I do...

Reply to LAS14 (Reply #2)

Wed Aug 21, 2019, 10:22 AM

Aug 2019

but then I say "I skyped you yesterday about blah blah" when I actually used "slack" (truthfully I now say "I slacked you yesterday...&quot and I often say things like "I awk'd the output to sum the output of df", etc.

I'm a Unix / Linux geek.

IADEMO2004

(5,557 posts)

5. yes

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Wed Aug 21, 2019, 10:22 AM

Aug 2019

Cirque du So-What

(25,965 posts)

7. I'd say 'Google,' as a verb, has achieved similar status

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Wed Aug 21, 2019, 10:56 AM

Aug 2019

All I've heard anyone say for the last decade is 'Let me google that,' instead of, for example, 'Let me duck duck goose that.'

blugbox

(951 posts)

8. Yes very much so.

Reply to LAS14 (Original post)

Wed Aug 21, 2019, 11:02 AM

Aug 2019

Photoshop, and like others have mentioned, GIMP, are raster based photo manipulation software.

But "Has that been photoshopped?" is super common. Also "shopped" for short.

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