richandfleur wrote:
I'd argue it's even more. Unless you're colour blind, you see colour in the world and not Black and White. I feel people are free to manipulate an image as they want, be that low level alterations such as saturation, contrast, cropping, rotation, lens correction to remove barrel distortion etc, up to larger adjustments, such as converting to black and white, adding a vignette, cloning out items they are not happy with, flipping horizontally, adding text, blurring areas, using HDR techniques, merging two different photos into one, localised sharpness, duplication of one dolphin into many, creating panoramas of multiple shots, you name it.

What you want to do to a picture is your choice alone. It's potentially far more than just adjusting it to what your eye sees if you want it to be. I don't feel there are any wrongs and rights in this, unless the requirement IS specifically for exactness, such as medical imagery, crime scene photography, items for sale etc.