I'm against editing, except chosing a part of the screen to be invisible (in most cases that means cropping out the UI).

The purpose of the screenshot competition is to provide the EB website with screenshots that are very nice and give a good image of what EB is capable of. I think that's the reason why two of my screens are there, although I've only won once: I never edit my screenshots.

Slight editing puts the non-editers to a disadvantage. I have already a lot of work to do, and have a lot of screenies, and I just don't want to spare time for editing. "There are free programs so everybody can do it" is no valid point. You cannot force the use of photoshop-programs to everybody or exclude them from the competition. This would be totally counterproductive, since the purpose of the screenshot competition is, again, to show what EB is capable of.

In many cases, in the current state of the screenshot competition, the picture with the best artwork wins. Other pictures without artwork don't although they might feature a better frame or better behaving soldiers or a better atmosphere etc. If people were allowed to enter their edited picture, and their unedited screeny in "hidden", it would again not serve the purpose of the EB screenshot competition, because it would produce sub-optimal screenshots for the EB website.

My proposal is to prohibit any screenshot editing besides cropping out parts of the screen. People should feel free to post their edited artworks in "hidden"-brackets, but it should be imperative that only the unedited screen enters the competition and thus perhaps the EB website.