I work purely with a Digital Camera at the moment (maybe one day I'll get back into film).

I'm still learning about how to capture a great looking image, that doesn't look over/under exposed, or flat, or skewed, and it has no red eye, and its not out of focus...etc etc etc

Try as I might, but with the limitations my camera and my skill level, I'm rarely going to be happy with the picture that comes directly of the memory stick. And thus I use Photoshop to attempt to bend the image back to what I was trying to achieve in the first place. And indeed sometimes I may even add a border, or a tint to simulate a tinted filter.

Does that mean I'm not longer an amateur photographer and I'm now a 2-D artist? I still composed the image with the camera, and set the shutter speed, F-Stop and ISO...I'm still using photography skills to create an image. Quite frankly the differnce between what I do and what a purist photographer does is simply that I'm not as good as him/her!! I don't feel therefore that because I need to use photoshop to correct and enhance my picutres that I'd be somehow not welcome to post my images on a "photography" gallery. Such a move would actually hinder my development as a photographer!! I want to share my work with those more skilled than me, so I may learn and become better!!

Images that have clearly been manipulated so much that it no longer looks like something you "could" capture in a camera should perhaps be in a Mixed gallery. At the end of the day it does come down to simple common sense...is it a photographed image or not?? Could the image have been created in a camera instead of photoshop?

As for collages, maybe there is scope there to have a seperate gallery for them. Collages contain great photography true, but maybe there is a valid argument that would say that a collage is a different form of art. I dunno though, if it was mostly a collage of original photography, I'd be happy with it on a photography gallery under the sub heading of "collages"....which funnily enough we already have :P