You can say that the photograph has been doctored if it was changed to deceive people.


Normally if a photograph has been faked it is said to have been Photoshopped, or called a Photoshop, after the popular image editing software.

Sometimes this is shortened to shopped or shop, as in:

That photo's a shop [or been shopped], I can see the pixels!!1

More general terms include forgery, counterfeit and of course fake.

Man pointing at computer screen, saying "This looks shopped. I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time."


It would be perfectly legitimate to say such a photo was a forgery.