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'''Photoshopping''' is the art and practice of ] with ]. The name comes from ], the image editor most commonly used for the practice, although other programs, such as ], ], or the ] may be used. Adobe discourages use of the term "photoshop" as a verb out of fear that it will ] the company's ]; for this reason, some people have called it '''photochopping'''. The practice of photoshopping is possible because modern image editing software made the work of altering images extremely easy, particularly with the ].


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Although professional graphic artists and designers might describe elements of their work as "photoshopping", the practice is more commonly associated with creating ] ]s on ] sites. In this way, photoshopping can be seen as another way of producing ]s, but without the need to generate original ]s. As such, the edits can be done in a very basic way, so it is clear that the image has been altered (often humour is derived from this fact), or in a hyper-realistic way so that the changes are seamless.
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Examples of photoshopping include people changing a picture of a well known ] to make it appear as if she has posed ]. In other examples two or more pictures are combined together for humour value.

Similarly to photoshopping, some neologisms are derived from the names of other image editing packages, for example "to ] up" an image.

Many Photoshopped images are propagated ]tically via ] as humour or passed as actual news. Some well known images include '']'' and ''Shark and Helicopter''. The latter image was widely circulated as a National Geographic 'Image of the Year' and was later revealed to be a hoax.

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