Editing Slash fiction (section)

=== Slash manips ===
In recent years, more slash artwork has used widespread availability of imaging software, like [[Adobe Photoshop]], to manipulate photographs of their subjects to produce romantic or erotic images (often referred to as ''slash manips''<ref>{{Cite journal|url = http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/view/677|title = Slash Manips: Remixing Popular Media with Gay Pornography|last = Brennan|first = Joseph|date = 2013|journal = M/C Journal|volume = 16|issue = 4|doi = 10.5204/mcj.677|doi-access = free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|title = Not 'from my hot little ovaries': How slash manips pierce reductive assumptions|last = Brennan|first = Joseph|date = 2014|journal = Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies|doi = 10.1080/10304312.2013.854872|issue = 2|volume = 28|pages = 247–264|s2cid = 144148482}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Brennan|first=Joseph|date=2016|title='If Duchamp's toilet can be a masterpiece…': Slash manips as fannish readymades|journal=Journal of Fandom Studies|volume=4|issue=1|pages=3–21|doi=10.1386/jfs.4.1.3_1}}</ref>) which imply a homosexual relationship, either as static pictures or animated GIFs. When the manipulated photos depict real people instead of media characters, the creation of these images can be as contentious as real person slash, and for many of the same reasons.