“Can I...

• add
• delete
• replace
• exaggerate
• resize
• move
• blur
• reshape

the depiction of...

• atmospheric effects
• blemishes on the subject
• car headlight beams in fog or night
• catchlights in eyes
• clouds
• contrails in the sky
• flaws on the subject
• freckles
• God beams of light
• graffiti
• light beams streaming through a window
• lightning
• lint on clothing
• litter
• markings on animal hides
• moles on skin
• the moon
• overhead power lines
• pimples
• rainbows
• reflections (on anything)
• scars
• shadows
• tattoos
• visible beams of light
• weather effects
• wrinkles

. . . in my photo?”

The answer is

“No”

if you want the photograph to qualify for the TTG label, because except for the effects of TTG’s Allowable Changes, doing so will disqualify the result from P2.

(The bulleted items listed above also cannot be recolored except to effect color corrections in order to meet P7; see #10 here.)

It doesn’t matter

whether you think the change is “trivial,” or “insignificant,” or “small,” or “minor,” or if you’re just duplicating after the exposure an effect that occurred during the exposure, or if you have perfectly good reasons for wanting to do it;

P2 is very clear.

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NOTE that this page (above) lists only a few examples of the kind of popular manipulations that 21st-century photographers routinely perform without a second thought.

Literally millions more things could be added to the list, but any photographer familiar with TTG already knows that P2 applies to depictions of things like people and buildings and planes and trains and automobiles.