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Examine this image and the unretouched one carefully. The head has been retouched in many places to tidy up the leaves without overdoing it. The background at the left is extended next to the apple. The join in the tiles is removed. The hole in the bunch of grapes has been filled, and brown marks and spots on the grapes removed. Extra satsumas are added at the right. The lemon has been boosted in colour (Yellow +6) and deepened (Levels, Gamma, 0.85). The entire image was also unsharp masked for repro. The total time for the exercise was two hours, including all versions and layouts, and the only Photoshop tool used was the Rubber Stamp cloner (no channels, masks or layers were used). Click the image to switch to the unretouched version (and once cached, vice-versa, to toggle between the two).