Adobe - stop using ‘Photoshop’ as a generic term

[ImBleu]

PS. Photoshopping is a hobby and an art form.

[dalekphalm]

Yay for retarded american trade marking laws. After all, they will lose the right to the name Photoshop, if it becomes a generic term. It might have gone too close to that already, since they released this crap.

Why does no one get this?

 

They aren't doing this because they think they can stop y'all from saying "I photoshopped it". They're doing it because by American Law, they have to protect their trademark, or lose it.

 

This is them "protecting" their trademark.

 

Otherwise, once it becomes a "generic" term in the eyes of the law, competitors could start to use the term themselves.

[evilarceus]

"Oh, how did you edit this picture?"

"I enhanced it with Adobe™ Photoshop™ Elements software."

 

Imagine that in a real conversation.

[Glenwing]

Moved to General Discussion. This is not a news article or announcement from Adobe, this is just someone digging through the legal documentation and finding something they think is a little funny.

 

This is quite commonplace and a standard clause for any trademark. NVIDIA has similar documentation specifying the only correct way to use the NVIDIA company name is in all caps, not Nvidia, nVidia, or any other variations. Likewise "G-SYNC" should always be in all caps. Does anyone seriously think NVIDIA cares how people spell their company name in regular conversation? I don't think so.

 

Legal definitions like this in practice are really only there for reference for other companies when they publish official statements or specs of their computers, or list features or software from another company, etc.

[NumLock21]

This is like Bandaid. It's copyrighted but most people still say Bandaid, when the actual name for it is called adhesive bandage.

[burnttoastnice]

Is Adobe a language company now? Until they start printing language arts books and stuff like that, who are they to tell us how we should speak?

 

I just Photoshopped a new logo for this language software it looks like they are promoting

 

[TetraSky]

It's cute how Adobe think they can stop anybody with their trademark... It's too late now. It's like Kleenex or Bandaid... People will just refer to any tissues and adhesive bandages by those names.

 

Also, ain't nobody gonna say "enhanced with Adobe Photoshop software", instead of "photoshopped".

Heck, I just imagine a nerd with a lisp who's pushing his glasses up while saying that...

[coonwhiz]

This would be like if Kleenex wanted people to start calling them tissues, or if Band-Aid wanted people to call them bandages. When your name becomes synonymous with the product, you are doing something right, not wrong...

[burnttoastnice]

This would be like if Kleenex wanted people to start calling them tissues, or if Band-Aid wanted people to call them bandages. When your name becomes synonymous with the product, you are doing something right, not wrong...

 

I call every single vacuum cleaner a hoover.

[Syntaxvgm]

It's 'Pop Tarts' in general. Not 'Toaster Pastries'.

It's 'Post-it notes.' Not 'mild adhesive paper slices'

It's 'PhotoShopped.' Not 'Digitally altered with pirated Adobe software', nor is it 'gimped'. 

So kindly fuck off adobe, and accept though it's not ideal for you, it's the way it is.  And work on making your non-PS products better. 

[AlwaysFSX]

So all of you need to remember this isn't for all of you to follow, this is for anything legal pertaining to the use about PS.

[Tygron]

Give them some kleenex for their tears.

[BurgerBum]

Yeah.... This will change literally nothing lol

because someone cares.

 

''WOW! that image looks like a professional adobe edited image!!!!11!''

[Swndlr]

That picture looks Photoshoped!!

Could have at least spelled it right LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

[watts300]

[Master Disaster]

Their software becomes the generic term and they get all pissy about it?

Good job Adobe, how bout you divert some of that energy towards fixing Flash instead.

[You_are_a_cunt]

How do you spell © without actually saying "Copyright"? Or ® for that matter

[watts300]

Their software becomes the generic term and they get all pissy about it?

Good job Adobe, how bout you divert some of that energy towards fixing Flash instead.

They're not pissy. Read what Glenwing wrote on page 3. 

 

Nearly every company worth its salt has a style guide to explain how their name and vocabulary is used. It's not picky, bitchy, pissy, or any other reflection of negativity in a marketplace.  

 

They're defining their product and the product name, but they're not openly lambasting customers for saying what they want. 

[roastduck]

Yeah, Adobe hates the term "photoshop" being used coloquially the same way Coca Cola hates all sodas being called "cokes" in the South and all tissues being called "kleenex" just bugs Kleenex so

[ShadowCaptain]

if I can "Google" a search word then I can "Photoshop" an image

 

 

It's 'Pop Tarts' in general. Not 'Toaster Pastries'.

It's 'Post-it notes.' Not 'mild adhesive paper slices'

It's 'PhotoShopped.' Not 'Digitally altered with pirated Adobe software', nor is it 'gimped'. 

So kindly fuck off adobe, and accept though it's not ideal for you, it's the way it is.  And work on making your non-PS products better. 

 

Agreed its like velcro, hoovers etc they are brand names but people use them as generic terms

 

"just velcro them together" etc - is a perfectly accepted piece of speech between normal people

 

 

If anything it PROMOTES photoshop 

[LAwLz]

Yeah they won't go after people who say an image has been photoshopped. That would be silly.
Almost as silly as saying "Hey check out this image I enchanted using Adobe® Photoshop® software!".
 
Whenever I see someone using ® or ™ in a post I immediately think "yep, that person is a shill".

[Guest]

The issue is that well :

"That picture looks photoshopped!"

"That picture looks Gimped!"

Which sounds right?

Gimp is better, but in the eye of the consumer, Photoshop is better because it is paid.

[Sauron]

Lol. So unless we utter an accurate advertisement of their product, we can't talk about it? I get why trademarks exist, but hammering on how they need to be written and used in sentences is nonsense.

[Sauron]

Gimp is better, but in the eye of the consumer, Photoshop is better because it is paid.

 

That's not fair to ps (I feel so evil), it DOES have features that gimp lacks or doesn't do as well - depending on what you need that may or may not concern you (for 99% of people gimp is more than fine of course).

[SIGSEGV]

We will do what we damn well please Adobe

That's not fair to ps (I feel so evil), it DOES have features that gimp lacks or doesn't do as well - depending on what you need that may or may not concern you (for 99% of people gimp is more than fine of course).

GIMP is better for many reasons, first of all it's free, features almost everything that photoshop has, is easy to make plugins for, is more logical to use and is libre