[bgoated01]

"...arrested an amateur photographer for selling manually photoshopped pictures..."

Am I the only one who finds the phrase "manually photoshopped" in an article about the late 1800s to early 1900s amusingly anochronistic? How about "manually doctored" or even "altered"?

[13of40]

That one's kind of come full circle, though, since a "photo shop" was a place you could go to get photos printed, altered, etc. since the late 1800s.

[nerdponx]

But was it ever attested as a one-word verb before Photoshop-the-software existed?

That would be a fascinating artifact of "skeumorphic" software naming.

[kmoser]

While "photoshop" may have entered the current vernacular, it's annoying (maybe even misleading?) in the context of this article because I doubt Comstock used "photoshopped" as a verb. More to the point, we still have verbs like "edited," "retouched," and "altered" that just as accurately describe the process, are more likely to have been used at the time, and are still understood by everybody today (believe it or not, there are people who don't know what Photoshop is, and wouldn't understand it as a verb).

[nerdponx]

I made the same comment but got flagged for my clumsy phrasing. I got a good laugh out of it. I couldn't tell if it was a subtle joke, or a confused young author + lapse in editing.

[renewiltord]

Shall all amusing text fall at the hands of the machine mind? Is there to be no fun in this universe?

[lamp_book]

We do kinda take it for granted when old terms are re-adapted to the new technology - for instance "splicing" video clips in something like iMovie. It's rarer to see it the other way around but I'm not sure it's any worse. Today you probably are less likely to say "doctored" or "edited" for that kind of manipulation described than you are "photoshopped."

[Nition]

Just like how in WWII, the Bombe programmers manually Visual Studioed the Enigma code.