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Message:: [QUOTE="900fine, post: 1042807, member: 6036"]Here's an interesting quote from Matt's thread :  "I just wanted to demonstrate how different you can make a coin look by just adjusting lighting and angles." (emphasis mine) Notice what he did NOT do... he didn't mess around with it in Photoshop ! That's vital to understanding what's happening. The OP on this thread showed how Photoshop (and others) can be used to intentionally doctor a photo to look different from the coin. That is a clear attempt to deceive. That is fraud, plain and simple. That is very serious, and very wrong. Matt's thread is much more subtle. No one doctored the photos; they took several photos under different conditions. Almost every one does that out of necessity. I commonly take at least four of each side; sometimes more, sometimes only one. Seller may choose to present all photos, but commonly will select and present only one of each side. That's what the big auction houses do in catalogs, and there's nothing wrong with that as long as seller makes a legitimate and bona fide attempt to properly represent the coin. Since no photo can ever possibly fully represent a coin, a good honest verbal description helps greatly. I do a lot of coin photos, and my goal is to make the photo look like  the coin. You'd be surprised how tricky that can be, especially with  copper. Most photos look worse than the real thing.[/QUOTE]