Hey Blarg

- and I used to live across the water from you in London

Small world
Seriously, when you think about it - even top fashion photographers get the airbrush out or the liquify tool to enhance the look of the images (and the models) they produce. And when images from top photographers across the world land on a news editors desk for example - the first place they head is the image editor who decides just how to make them 'better'.
Last year one of my pictures (a dull boring picture) appeared in a Brisbane Newspaper - I genuinely had to look twice before recognising it as 'mine' - they had post processed it so heavily I didn't even recognise the people in it!
Oz