Trademarks are not verbs. So when I say something was photoshopped, it's clearly not using the trademark. So it's ok.

They should ask the Kimberly-Clark Corporation how well this went with their Kleenex brand

When a brand name falls into common usage, it can lose its trademark. That’s why Adobe is so pissy about this.

They can't do anything about it. It's already in the Oxford dictionary https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/photoshop

Do not use our holy name as a slur 👉👈 uwu

The reasons brands do this is because they risk losing protections if their trademark becomes an established verb.

Funny. I "photoshopped" (performed transformative manipulations [?] over) images, image macros and "memes" using Paint, Paint.NET, GIMP, Krita, ImageToolbox (Android) and some stock Gallery editor (Android).

Notably, not the Adobe® Photoshop®. Poop them.

There is some good reason behind "decorporating" slang, specifically i'd like to "degoogle" it. "Dephotoshopping" sounds a bit nice too. I'd prefer some more general, less lock-ining terms.

Adode invented photos and shops and nouns.

In case anyone does not know: when a brand name becomes the generic term for a product or action, courts and trademark offices may determine the mark has become “genericized.” If that happens the owner may lose exclusive rights and the mark can enter the public domain.

See Zipper, Heroin, Escalator, Yo-Yo, etc.

So if you are anti-capitalist, you should photoshop with Gimp, google with duckduckgo and so on.

counterpoint, language evolves over time and if the majority of people decide that these are proper words then so be it

Adobe®️ Photoshop®️ is shit.

The image was Adobe® photoshopped

I'll start caring about Adobe's trademarks when they stop being assholes with subscription termination fees, and also stop using subscriptions altogether. But I'll still use GIMP because I also hate Microsoft and Photoshop doesn't run on Linux anyway.

Pretty much industry standard.