Software Gems: The Computer History Museum Historical Source Code Series pho·to·shop, transitive verb, often capitalized ˈfō-(ˌ)tō-ˌshäp to alter (a digital image) with Photoshop software or other image-editing software especially in a way that distorts reality (as for deliberately deceptive purposes) — Merriam-Webster online dictionary, 2012 When brothers Thomas and John Knoll began designing and writing an image editing program in the late 1980s, they could not have imagined that they would be...