[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.

[Frank Sheed]

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=\Nation\archive\200509\NAT20050915c.html

Clearly indicates that segments of the photo were "burned". In other words, they couldn't produce the whole text so they enhanced it with this technique. That is not saying it was doctored in terms of content, but the entire thing was not treated in the same fashion. Imagine what one could do by "burning" some portions of a photo; let's say, areas of the face?

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