They're only a lot of work as long as the tooling is difficult to use, not accessible and produces output that doesn't look authentic.
30 years ago, that might have been the case with doctoring images, now practically everyone has a personal computer that they can install and use PhotoShop or some similar tool on.
30 years ago, that might have been the case with doctoring images, now practically everyone has a personal computer that they can install and use PhotoShop or some similar tool on.