When deciding whether a photo qualifies for the TTG label, TTG makes no distinction between “digital changes” and “darkroom changes.”

Some people believe that photos made with a film camera and processed in a darkroom are inherently more trustworthy than photographs made with a digital camera and processed in Photoshop.

But it is easy to make untrustworthy photographs with film, just as it is easy to make trustworthy photographs with digital.

Most of the most-widely trusted photos of our time are made digitally.

In reportage photography, non-manipulation standards are higher in the digital era than they were the film era.

(In the mid-20th century, even large newsmagazines would doctor photos to a degree that many 21st-century readers would find very surprising.)

TTG and the Trust Test never favor one technology over another.

Written examples of how “darkroom” and “digital” changes can both be used to produce both TTG and non-TTG photographs.