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Adjusting exposure and cropping is fine. Anything that changes your face is not, because the first meeting is where it gets discovered and that is an expensive place to find out.
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Brightening an underexposed photo, straightening it, and cropping so you are the clear subject. Most phone photos improve substantially from exposure alone.
Skin smoothing, face-shape tools and heavy filters. They are more recognisable than people think, and the reaction is not 'they look good', it is 'what is being hidden'.
Anything that will not match the person who turns up is borrowing against a meeting you have to attend.
Black-and-white is often used to rescue a photo with bad colour or lighting. It usually reads as a rescue. Fix the light instead and keep the colour.
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