• Obi@sopuli.xyz
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    1 day ago

    Can you clarify what you mean? This is the kind of trivia I’d normally know about but I fail to make a connection, a quick search also didn’t yield more info besides that it was supposedly whispered to the creators by a potential publisher, and the obvious reference to a “shop” for photos like a workshop.

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      15 hours ago

      A photo shop is what you used to take your film or pictures to to be enlarged or touched up. This process became known as photo-shopping and the software was named after this. This is according to my artist grandma who died recently and my graphic design professor years ago.

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        5 hours ago

        Your grandma and professor were wrong. Try to find a source that uses the term photoshop before 1992. You won’t, because it doesn’t exist.

        It’s okay to be wrong sometimes.

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      1 day ago

      It’s not true. It was called photo manipulation before Photoshop.

      Adobe has actually complained about the term photoshopping because it can lead to genericization and loss of their trademark.