225. Should viewers trust a photo if the photographer doesn’t label it as TTG but says they only made “minor” changes to it?

Viewers should be skeptical unless the photographer spells out exactly what “minor” includes.

Things that the photographer wants to characterize as “minor” could be things that the viewer might consider “major” if the viewer knew about them.

When it comes to actions that disqualify photos from the Trust Test, TTG does not distinguish between “minor” and “major” manipulations.

The advantage of the TTG label is that with only three letters it summarizes the things that are spelled out, in detail, on hundreds of pages on this website.

That saves photographers the need to spell out those things with each photo they put before the public—

— and saves viewers from having to decipher what each photographer personally defines as “minor” changes.