Traditional media and Photoshop

Why is it so common to find traditional_media photoshop_(medium)? Is there a culture thing I don't get or are the medium tags just too crazy?

2 reasons:

1. a mistype of the photo_(medium) tag (as photoshop_(medium) comes up first in auto complete)
2. the image was touched up in photoshop by its creator and still has the metadata attached.

most likely its 1.

So with the consideration of 2 it's safer to leave the tags as they are?

you could change it if it comes from a site like twitter which doesnt save metadata... i'd say its okay.

Yeah, considering how I sometimes accidentally photoshop (medium) when I meant to add photo (medium) and looking closely at the first page, I believe most of those are mistags due to the autocomplete. Don't hesitate to fix any you come across. There could be the oddball that's touched up in Photoshop though, but something tells me they are quite the minority.