[mcg1969]

Now, as for the fact that the photo was enhanced using PhotoShop, consider this CNSNews article on the photo.

According to the person who did the Photoshopping, "This is a standard practice for news photos... and the picture was not manipulated in any other way.

According to a Washington-based Reuters editor, the particular type of editing done is NOT permitted. "We have corporate rules against that and anybody who did that would be, would be fired immediately."

Seems there is some conflict on that point. I have to be honest: I actually believe the Photoshopper. When I read the CNSNews article carefully, I detect a bit of "bad polling". That is, I think they asked the Reuters editor a stronger question about "doctoring" of a photo. As conservative-friendly as CNS News is, they're not always the most professional.

And more importantly, what is NOT in question is the content of the note; it was as pictured.

[Echo Talon]

I feel cropping is fine.
Enhancing a photo for brightness/contrast and color is fine as well IF the whole photograph is enhanced and not just select areas. That would cover this "note" and womens makeup as well.

[SerpentDove]

>>According to the person who did the Photoshopping, "This is a standard practice for news photos... and the picture was not manipulated in any other way.

According to a Washington-based Reuters editor, the particular type of editing done is NOT permitted. "We have corporate rules against that and anybody who did that would be, would be fired immediately." <<

I was a staff artist at the Dallas Times Herald back in the late eighties, and my friend is currently art director at the Dallas Morning News. Both newspapers had STRICT rules against the use of Photoshop in news photos, for legal reasons.

From what I understand, Photoshop was used in this case, a violation of standard ethics. But who says journalists have ethics anyway?