Photoshop Grammar and Hall of Fame
Apparently, Adobe has rules about using the Adobe (r) Photoshop (r) software name.
https://www.adobe.com/misc/trade.html#section-4
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Proper use of the Photoshop trademark
Trademarks help protect corporate and product identity, and the Photoshop trademark is one of Adobe's most valuable trademarks. By following the below guidelines, you can help Adobe protect the Photoshop brand name.
The Photoshop trademark must never be used as a common verb or as a noun. The Photoshop trademark should always be capitalized and should never be used in possessive form or as a slang term. It should be used as an adjective to describe the product and should never be used in abbreviated form. The following examples illustrate these rules:
Trademarks are not verbs.
Correct: The image was enhanced using Adobe® Photoshop® software.
Incorrect: The image was photoshopped.
Trademarks are not nouns.
Correct: The image pokes fun at the Senator.
Incorrect: The photoshop pokes fun at the Senator.
Always capitalize and use trademarks in their correct form.
Correct: The image was enhanced with Adobe® Photoshop® Elements software.
Incorrect: The image was photoshopped.
Incorrect: The image was Photoshopped.
Incorrect: The image was Adobe® Photoshopped.
Trademarks must never be used as slang terms.
Correct: Those who use Adobe® Photoshop® software to manipulate images as a hobby see their work as an art form.
Incorrect: A photoshopper sees his hobby as an art form.
Incorrect: My hobby is photoshopping.
Trademarks must never be used in possessive form.
Correct: The new features in Adobe® Photoshop® software are impressive.
Incorrect: Photoshop's new features are impressive.
Trademarks are proper adjectives and should be followed by the generic terms they describe.
Correct: The image was manipulated using Adobe® Photoshop® software.
Incorrect: The image was manipulated using Photoshop.
Trademarks must never be abbreviated.
Correct: Take a look at the new features in Adobe® Photoshop® software.
Incorrect: Take a look at the new features in PS.
The trademark owner should be identified whenever possible.
Adobe and Photoshop are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries.
For more information on the proper use of Adobe's trademarks, please refer to the general trademark guidelines.
Also here's a blog site that has a bunch of Photoshopped fubars.
Bwahaha.
... Oh and I figured out why I couldn't use carriage returns... apparently NoScript blocks TAC and Googleapis which prevented me from getting decent carriage returns. Very dumb.
Vulash
16 years ago
I'm confused why they would need to make this distinction since these types of things help a brand name. How many people do you know that say "I want a Coke" when they really go grab any type of soda? It would seem to help their image to be the standard bearer.
ROzbeans
16 years ago
Actually if I say, 'I want a coke', I want a god damn coke. If I wanted any other variety soda pop, I'd say - 'I want a pop.' =D
Kelefane
16 years ago
I say soda water.....its a south thing I guess.
Eve
16 years ago
Yup, down south no matter what you want it's a coke, up north we called it pop, here on the east coast we just call it soda.
Den
16 years ago
I just ask for a diet...and take whatever I get...Pepsi...Coke. They never have anything other than a cola in diet, so I'm safe.
Lessa
16 years ago
Growing up we would ask for a Coke.. cause thats what mom drank.. so thats usually what we had.. if we had other brands or other types of soda we would still say Coke.
Now its soda usually, unless we are being specific.
Now its soda usually, unless we are being specific.
KaAnna
16 years ago
I refer to it as soda, my boyfriend refers to it as pop. So it's a little weird to hear pop and soda in the same house. lol
pharren
16 years ago
My extended family is from Michigan (and my sister and I were both born there), but my immediate family has lived in Florida for most of my life. I called everything a "coke", while my parents said "pop", so I started calling everything "a carbonated beverage" when I'm not talking about something specific.
"Would you care for a carbonated beverage?"
"Would I... what?"
Good times!
"Would you care for a carbonated beverage?"
"Would I... what?"
Good times!
Eve
16 years ago
LoL Sounds a lot like my childhood Pharren. Born in Michigan so started out calling it pop. Remember being about 10 or so going to the skating rink in Texas and asking for a pop and getting the strangest looks. Eventually after living down south in Texas and Mississippi, I started calling it all Coke too. After moving all over the place tho, and getting with hubby who's from the west coast, ending up here in Virginia, it's all soda. Funny how something that most everyone in the country knows and uses (drinks) on a daily basis can be known by so many different names even in the same language.
Jetamio
16 years ago
Growing up, if it wasn't milk or water it was juice, in Scotland anyway. And my first few years in England I didn't really mingle with other people so spoke exactly like my parents. I moved around a lot too but don't really remember if the Southern Softies called it by something else. Further north in England they call it pop which I hated for some reason and refused to call it that lol. I think it was mainly because the cheap icky brands actually had Pop on the label so I associated it with cheap crap. And now living here I've never heard them call it anything other than pop :( So now I just specify the drink I want lol.
Vulash
16 years ago
I say pop.
Interesting that you say soda in Virginia and I everyone says pop in West Virginia. I guess that is why we broke off and made our own state.
Interesting that you say soda in Virginia and I everyone says pop in West Virginia. I guess that is why we broke off and made our own state.
Aziyade
16 years ago
Los Angeles is a weird melting pot, you'll hear pop, soda and coke all used as generic words for carbonated beverages depending on where the speaker is from. For me it was always coke for the cola goodness and 7up for the lemon-lime goodness.
Den
16 years ago
Growing up in SoCal, I suppose this is why I never thought about what I called it...because you do hear everything. And 7Up beats all when it comes to a lemon-lime soda! :D
Aziyade;94145
Los Angeles is a weird melting pot, you'll hear pop, soda and coke all used as generic words for carbonated beverages depending on where the speaker is from. For me it was always coke for the cola goodness and 7up for the lemon-lime goodness.
Growing up in SoCal, I suppose this is why I never thought about what I called it...because you do hear everything. And 7Up beats all when it comes to a lemon-lime soda! :D
ROzbeans
16 years ago
Mike asks for just a diet. I usually ask for water, but I'd take a diet coke over a diet pepsi. /SHUDDER God I HATE HATE diet pepsi. We had a get together at a friends house and chick brought a 6 pack of diet pepsi for herself. It literally sat in our friends fridge for over a year. No one touched it.
Diet pepsi is the foul. =x
Diet pepsi is the foul. =x
pharren
16 years ago
It does not even taste like cola. I like regular Pepsi, but man...
I actually ended up drinking Diet Pepsi with vanilla somehow, and it was actually quite good (I like vanilla). The only problem with it was I could drink an entire can in about 0.2 seconds and still be thirsty.
Diet Coke with lime is nice, too.
Diet pepsi is the foul.
It does not even taste like cola. I like regular Pepsi, but man...
I actually ended up drinking Diet Pepsi with vanilla somehow, and it was actually quite good (I like vanilla). The only problem with it was I could drink an entire can in about 0.2 seconds and still be thirsty.
Diet Coke with lime is nice, too.