* ekto tells his friends 'for a moment, I get a twinge of guilt when doing
  things like this... until I recall the stuff my grandad used to do in his
  darkroom ;)'
You tell the friends of ekto 'that sounds so so wrong.'
* ekto tells his friends 'er'
* ekto tells his friends 'the "photo retouching stuff"'
* ekto rephrases :P (to his friends)