Still, the fact that a feminist website had paid to see this was catnip to those who stirred the pot with lots of hyperbole about the extent to which Dunham had been retouched.
He is commanded to follow "the same procedure as last year", going around the table impersonating each of the now-dead dinner guests, raising toast after toast and becoming ever more drunk.As one awful year for the euro zone made way for another, the German television network ARD digitally retouched the original sketch to create a spoof of European Union summits.
Now, thanks to digital technology, image manipulation is available to everyone, and nefarious uses are becoming far more widespread.In around one in 75 insurance claims, photos documenting property damage have been fraudulently retouched, says Eugene Nealon of Nealon Affinity Partners, a company based in London that advises insurers.
If the pattern of unusual discolourations in two pictures taken by the same camera matches exactly, neither image has been retouched, at least in those areas.
In some countries 2-3% of claims submitted contain images retouched to "embellish the truth", he says, making injuries look worse than they really are in order to collect more money.
Only about 10% of insurers are using software to spot fakery, says Mr Nealon, so there is plenty of room for growth.In January a new law came into force in Israel making it illegal to use images in advertisements that have been retouched to make models look thinner without printing a disclosure on the picture.
During the campaign, a poster featuring Fitz was delicately retouched, apparently on the instructions of Peter Mandelson, in order to airbrush out the dog's testicles.
A few minutes walk from the Art Basel fest, he rented a disused building taking up an entire city block on Collins Avenue, the main drag, which he filled with giant collages, man-sized aerosol cans painted like Campbell's soup tins, Victorian portraits retouched with Batman-style masks, psychedelic Warholian prints of Marilyn Monroe and John F. Kennedy, and other outsize kitsch.
Retouched continuous-tone positives are used in preparation of halftone negatives and, by a contact-printing operation, halftone positives.
But only five of these (Peter Brueghel the Younger, Snellinx, Erasmus, Suttermans, and Josse de Momper) remained unchanged; another five were retouched by professional engravers, and the rest were completely reworked by them.
