I know it's a fake
why the fuck would you sketch all the background defects and edge faults? You would, as a discerning artist, use your discretion and make it look right. You would not sketch in all the details and defects from the original picture.

it would never happen. Akvis sketch filter.
( Pasanonic so I compo anything with words, right?, Sun 5 Aug 2007, 17:51, archived)

Why?
OCD?

*taps table eight times and rubs right earlobe*
( An Eagle in Your Mind, Sun 5 Aug 2007, 17:57, archived)

You would sketch it because that's what is on the original
It's not a trace, but a copy. And in fairness he's done a damn fine job, copying everything down to the background, and what the hell is wrong with that? If it was a shop then the background could easily have been cloned out. He has used his discretion to make it look "right". The background detail is part of the original, henceforth right.

You could have admitted your mistake and apologised, but now you're just being plain stubborn.

If he's that good a shopper as you claim, then he surely wouldn't have needed a filter to do something like that to begin with.
(shovelboy This is bad - Two minutes to Belgium, Sun 5 Aug 2007, 18:24, archived)