Yes but the way it’s phrased with no context is (intentionally) misleading, and doesn’t help describe how it was edited and to what extent. I have to assume that they used “edited” to be technically correct while maximizing clicks/engagement. One might read the sentence and think the Spain National Team had taken the time to aggressively remove Trump from the picture, as if he was in front of a player and they had to airbrush him out. That’s what I thought at first but searching for an uncropped image shows that wasn’t the case, and this context helped me understand what “edited” referred to, and I figured others might want the context as well.
Cropping is editing. You can edit a photo in many many ways including cropping
Yes but the way it’s phrased with no context is (intentionally) misleading, and doesn’t help describe how it was edited and to what extent. I have to assume that they used “edited” to be technically correct while maximizing clicks/engagement. One might read the sentence and think the Spain National Team had taken the time to aggressively remove Trump from the picture, as if he was in front of a player and they had to airbrush him out. That’s what I thought at first but searching for an uncropped image shows that wasn’t the case, and this context helped me understand what “edited” referred to, and I figured others might want the context as well.
I don’t agree there was anything misleading in this usage. I think you are reading too much into it.
I understand the difference you are describing, but I don’t accept that the use of Edited was in anyway click bait, in this instance.
We are just so used to it being used that way it easy to forget to give the benefit of the doubt.
I could be wrong though, but it doesn’t feel right to me to have issue with this use of language