• photo manipulations: The majority of photos that I produce from digital images, are photo manipulation in some way - if only to take out red-eye :]

So, I would hate to see manipulated photo's not allowed.

However, images that are so manipulated that they are no longer recognized as a photo, I would vote to have those uploaded to the 2D gallery instead of the photo gallery.

• photographs that have been heavily changed : Again, this comes under the category of ... Can the image still be considered a photograph? If not, perhaps the 2D gallery would be better suited :)
• Images containing 2D elements: This is a tricky one. Again, it depends on the amount of 2D to the amount of original photo. Technically if someone takes an image of a man walking in front of a poster the poster would be considered a 2D image! Again, if the majority of the image is photography and not 2D I would think it would be ok.
• stock photography : I really think that images that are posted to the Rosity gallery should be photos that were taken by the photographer. The problem we have run into with Stock Photographs in the past was copyright verification! Legally, if you post someones photograph and you were not the photographer, you need to have written permission from the original photographer to post the image.

Which brings up another point do we allow historical or family stock photography? I have noticed that many members have posted images of their ancestors noting that the images were taken by family members, many long deceased.

Not to be confused with digital images of playboy bunnies, that were taken off the Internet, which Huge Hefner really frowns upon :]

• 3D elements : When I was in college one of the photo assignments [using traditional film, not digital] was to create a collage image. I started with a B&W image of a man sitting in the woods, with several images of fairies dancing around him. The fairies were also photographs that had been shoot separately, reduced in size and glued onto the original photo. Along with this I glued on glitter and some small twigs. I then took a photo of the final image and submitted it as my final project. Thus, it was an image that contained 3D elements, yet the final image was a pure photograph!

So, this is a tricky one to answer again, if the majority of the image is still a photograph. I would think it could stay????

Dee-Marie