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  • Photomontage of 16 photos which have been digitally manipulated in Photoshop to give the impression that it is a real landscape.

  • Before its release to news media, congressional staff digitally added into this 2013 official portrait the heads of four members absent in the original photo shoot.

  • Photomanipulation

  • Original photograph of horses being sorted in a corral

  • Digitally manipulated composite: horses in original photo are added to a photo of a pasture.

  • Photograph manipulated in Photoshop to give impression it is a painting complete with brush strokes.

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