I just went back to the gallery and read the guidelines again... I think the one who wrote them really thought this thru. It's very logical and well, almost perfectly clear... :) It's very obvious for me that we're allowed to use Photoshop to alter our images. It's called PHOTOshop, after all... :D Contrast, sharpening, desaturation, cloning - it's all natural 'touch ups' for me. As far as I'm concerned: 2D elements when it's not your own work - no, 3D elements, certainly no, (I'm obviously talking about the photo, not the frame) Collages - of course! If I put my own 3 shots in one frame they don't stop being photos. Just as 'stitching' your images together to make a pan, for example, doesn't stop the final image from being a photo. Now, I'm not sure what 'heavily changed' means: if I put a 'canvas' filter on my shot, it looks like a painting, is it a 'heavy' change? As for creating another gallery - I don't think we need one. Mixed Medium and 2D are quite enough, imo. Thanks for this thread, dear Stuff :)) I'm quite interested in what will come out of this... :))