>>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?
Amend that, the DTH had STRICT rules against retouching photos...Photoshop was not around then. The DMN has strict rules against the use of Photoshop. But as an artist, I was made aware of the restrictions.