THAT is why avatars arent allowed here, ladies and gentlemen.
"Good photoshopping" would possibly also imply you knew how to save images at an appropriate file size for viewing from the web.
Warning…
2.6 MB page……even on cable it takes forever to load.
Give the guy a break! He obviously had fun doing it and presumably learned a lot in the process. I thought he did a good job.
Jake
Give the guy a break! He obviously had fun doing it and presumably learned a lot in the process. I thought he did a good job.
Jake
By the way, it loaded in no time for me on DSL.
And for another thing Photoshop® is not a verb. 😛
I thought he did a good job.
Sure. Now if he could just find "Save for web" he’d be set <g>
And for another thing Photoshop® is not a verb. 😛
Language being the virus William Burroughs suggested it is, photoshop has certainly become a verb in colloquial usage. Just as google has.
Willaim S Burroughs was a loon as well as a genuis.
photoshop has certainly become a verb in colloquial usage.
Not according to rule 10 of BLUDVZ Revised rules of graphic design.
"A wise old black transvestite once told me ‘people are just $%^&s darling’"
-WSB
Not according to rule 10 of BLUDVZ Revised rules of graphic design.
It’s not a graphic design issue; but rather a linguistic one.
"If you’re doing business with a religious son of a b!tch, get – it -in -writing,
His work isn’t worth sh1t,
Not with the good lord telling him how to f#ck you on the deal"
More William S Burroughs advice.
OK. Forget Burroughs.
The term photoshopping is a neologism, meaning ‘editing an image,’ regardless of the program used. Perhaps Adobe may even discourage use of the term out of concern that it could undermine the company’s trademark, but the verb "to photopshop" has indeed entered the language.
Q: How did you do that?
A: I photoshoped it.
This could probably start a heated debate:
Photoshopping is sometimes used with a derogatory intent by artists to refer to images that have been retouched instead of originally produced. A common issue amongst users of all skill levels is the ability to avoid in one’s work what is referred to as "the Photoshop look" (although such an issue is intrinsic to many graphics programs).
A neologism can be:
1.. A newly coined word, phrase, or expression.
2.. A meaningless word or phrase coined or used by a psychotic. Both are true definitions.
hmm, so If I’m driving to work – I’m now "Toyota-ing" to work?
If I’m eating, I’m "Taco-Belling"?
If I’m sending something to press – I’m "Heidelburging"?
No, Photoshop is a noun – and digital imaging is what you DO with Photoshop.
#%^* the losers who call it "Photoshopping"…including my boss.
hmm, so If I’m driving to work – I’m now "Toyota-ing" to work?
When such use of a Toyata becomes linquistcally pervasive, yes.
If I’m eating, I’m "Taco-Belling"?
This example is speciously unspecific as there are a multitude of items (fast food brand names included) that one can eat.
Langauge evolves.
…or goes backwards.
Yes, yet the evolutionary timeline remains intact even when word/meaning usage reverts to an earlier accepted usage.
I think that because the use of the words "Googling" and "Photoshopped" has become so pervasiveeven among the ignoratithat these words will soon find their way into the O.E.D.
these words will soon find their way into the O.E.D.
Yep. Just like so many other words included therein by the same process. Nothing "ignorant" about it. Just the way language works.
Sheck-meister…
By "ignorati" I meant people outside the semi-insular walls of heavy-duty web use and digital image manipulation. e.g.: My Mom, my cousins, Conan, Jay and David…they have all used "Photoshopped" when describing an image that has been altered.
I’m gonna tell your Mom you called her an ignorati. 😀
You have to admit that the back-formation of the word "ignorati" does cast a bit of rosy light on being called stupid, eh?
Unfortunatelyor perhaps fortunatelythose for whom the description fits wouldn’t get that all the spit hasn’t been wiped away during the shine.
You have to admit that the back-formation of the word "ignorati" does cast a bit of rosy light on being called stupid, eh?
Not sure about that. Seems like it’s primarily pejorative.
Unfortunately-or perhaps fortunately-those for whom the description fits wouldn’t get that all the spit hasn’t been wiped away during the shine.
Probably true.
#%^* the losers who call it "Photoshopping"…including my boss.
I think you should google photoshopping. 🙂
"Verbing weirds words."
– Watterson (Calvin and Hobbes)
Virtually ANY noun in English can be verbed. It is not necessarily "bad" usage to do so. It’s another example of the flexibility and adaptability of the language, rather than any sign of decadence. It is a living tongue, after all.
I’m now "Toyota-ing" to work
That can’t be.
It implies that the thing has actually started and isn’t completely oxidised overnight.
You have to drive a T to your work. Other cars drive you to work.
Rob
My car "Suzuki’s" me to the store…
