For me editing covers lightening, brightening, cropping and sharpening... basically tweeking what's there without any additions or removals.
Manipulating is when I start adding or removing sections to improve the shot. An example of mine is this shot of a robin, I took a few frames of the bird, but when I looked at them none were quite right. The best one was fine, apart from the fact that the bill was out of focus (motion blur), I took the bill from another shot and put it into this one.
This is clearly manipulation, although there was no intent to decive, as I've been totally up front about what I've done, and look at it more as an exercise in photoshopping.
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