User:A Fellow Editor/sandbox/scalloped distinctions

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In short, a portion of a live photograph has been transformed into a sort of reference diagram.

... Or at least that's one—I think straightforward—way to frame the issue at hand. More fully, some portion of a digital/digitized original photograph composed, captured, and uploaded to Wikimedia Commons by User:YuryKirienko as a .jpg file under a Public Domain license has been transformed by the efforts and creative choices of User:Kevjonesin within the GNU Image Manipulation Program to produce a reference image uploaded by User:Kevjonesin to Wikimedia Commons as a .png file under a Public Domain license for use as a visual guide on a Wikipedia article's talkpage where it was inserted as relevant to subject matter under discussion. ie. As a photograph transformed by  creative choices  to produce a reference image.