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The difference bewteen an adjustment and an edit

'Adjustments' are settings, applied either globally or locally, which change the overall appearance of an image but do not alter the image content. For example, if I change sharpening, color balance, or exposure in a photograph of the mountains, I may have altered the overall appearance of the image, but I haven’t changed the actual image content. The clouds and trees are still there.

'Edits' - on the other hand - are changes that are applied to an image that fundamentally affect its
content. It alters the image content to something different than what your camera recorded. In this age of digital photography, there is a seemingly endless debate on what is acceptable, especially in competitions. How many times have you heard someone say they haven't 'touched up' an image - when it is screaming at you that they have gone completely over the top with Photoshop!

It seems that minor changes are OK but major ones, are not. But digital cameras do not “know” what the photographer is thinking (much less seeing) when it records an image; they just record light and color information. It is, therefore, the job of the digital photographer to instill life, feeling, and emotion into an otherwise sterile collection of binary digits. We do this by post-processing our images
to make them sharper, more vibrant, or even more subdued.