Forum needs to be renamed!

Hobbes

http://www.adobe.com/misc/trade.html#photoshop

I suggest "A humourous forum where images are altered using Adobe® Photoshop® software."

RobertFoster

That's very strange. Surely they'd want people to use it as a familiar term, increase market awareness etc. Like the use of "coke" or "google it" are familiar terms, and have increased the awareness of those products.

NotMe

They obviously don't want it to become a generic term that is associated with image manipulation (which it has become).

CORRECT: The image was enhanced with Adobe® Photoshop® Elements software.

INCORRECT: The image was photoshopped.

Rew

You can lose your trade mark if a word becomes the general term to describe somthing AFAIK.

regeneration

That's all very well, but they should understand that saying "that's nice gimp work" can sometimes lead to confusion and the wrong conclusion

Capt'n Midnight

Rew wrote:

You can lose your trade mark if a word becomes the general term to describe somthing AFAIK.

It happened to Hoover .
Coke have people working full time just reading stuff in case they see the word and then they send out a reminder to the author or, so it is said in the red book.

Maybe if someone was to register photoshoppage as a trade mark then adobe'd either have to acknowledge the use of the word or allow the it to be used.

Dr. Dre

This is very true, and Google aint too happy about becoming a verb either.
Don't think you would be allowed register 'photoshoppage' as a trade mark, as it's too similar to photoshop (ref. Lindows)
Incidentally, Neowin have details of the newer version of Photoshop here
Time to start sweet-talking your boss, or whoever controls the purse strings.

CuLT

>_<



that is all.

tba

reading that is like sitting through third year english again.

Rew wrote:

You can lose your trade mark if a word becomes the general term to describe somthing AFAIK.

INTA wrote:

A generic term is a word or phrase that is or has come to be the common term associated with or known as a particular category of goods or services to which it relates, thereby ceasing to function as an indicator of origin. For example, “clock” is a generic term for timepieces. Generic designations are not registrable or protectable. A trademark may potentially become generic if it becomes so widely known and used with a particular category of goods or services as to designate the category of goods or services. In such instances, the "mark" will not be registrable and a previous registration for such a "mark" may be subject to cancellation by a third party. Examples of marks that have become generic over time include “escalator,” “linoleum,” “zipper” and “yo-yo.” This loss of trademark status is sometimes referred to as “genericide.” It should be noted that what is generic in one country may not necessarily be generic in another, for example, the designation ASPIRIN is generic in the U.S. but is not in other countries.

Reference

Wertz

I'm just waiting for a similar announcement from MicroSoft about Paint.

Gordon

Photochop.

tba

Graphics Warehouse

dahamsta

Dr. Dre wrote:

This is very true, and Google aint too happy about becoming a verb either.

I doubt that tbh, I'd say the lawyers aren't too happy but the techies are delighted. Trademark enforcement is as much about being seen to crack down as anything else.

adam

Interceptor

Photoshoppage. Hmm, maybe it should be called Rasterbation.

billy the squid

The subject of renaming the forum came up before, but no changes were made.

calling the forum "photoshoppage" does tie it too much with the one product when there are numerous others out there.

dearg_doom

How about renaming the forum: Gimpage?


Or: cut-and-paste-u-like?

Zombienosh

call it, Image Editing

regeneration

- Digital Art
- Digital Media
- Digital & Web Graphics
- Digital Imagery

Can you see the trend here?

騎手

AlcoholicA wrote:

call it, Image Editing

That's a good logical title.

CuLT

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FYI, the forum has already changed names, it used to be "Pix'n'Mix". It's not changing again anytime soon.