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LaFoto - My apologies, this post does look better suited to this forum. Also, you may remember this quote, "Well, to be quite open and frank I often get the feeling, mostly so in The Critique Forum, that those who just go about changing someone else's photo and thus adapting it to their own tastes actually don't offer any help at all, they mess with someone else's work."
It is this kind of mentality that people use to put creative handicaps on themselves. It is very helpful for someone else to put their personal spin on an image, in order to help you see a photographic world outside your own. It really does offer help, but some choose not to see it. I believe this falls under the second half of number three.
Then by all means do so in words. Why not? Why not force yourself to think so much that you have to find the WORDS to describe what you would think makes the photo a better one? There is NOTHING wrong with critique, to my mind, nor with learning from it, and if you had known me from when I first joined this forum until know, you would SEE that I learned, and HEAPS, although (!) I am "old" in your book (!!!), and in a time when the NOTE and OTE thing was not even invented and by default photos on here were NOTE, by default!, so posters had to THINK, make up their own mind on something, and find their own WORDS to describe and help, via text, not via editing someone else's work.
We have the Photoshop Challenges here, a much neglected sub-forum, which is where people are very invited to post those photos they feel would need some pp treatment that they cannot bring about, either because they are still too new to PS or something similar, or don't even HAVE the kind of software ... no one ever goes there, though.
I prefer to (still, even in my old age!) learn by doing, not by getting things done by others.