Another day, another quirky (yet sensical) new
thing to learn about Photoshop: apparently, it has super-special algorithm magic baked in to detect currency and deterr
its manipulation. Creativebits picked up on this and
found a little more information at Slashdot, but basically: as of Photoshop
8 (CS), the app has gained the ability to detect US currency and credit cards, as well as Euro notes (possibly more),
and display a message stating that Photoshop does not support "the unauthorized processing of banknote
images." My first question is: so where's the plug-in?But seriously, if you're in a situation like Terry at creativebits and you might be designing a credit card for a client, a simple work-around has been discovered: opening the image in ImageReady, then using File > Edit in Photoshop will apparently bypass this slight federal offense of counterfeiting hangup.
[via TUAW]
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The currency story is a few years old... the Slashdot article is Jan04.
Treasuries usually provide functional artwork for currency, however... example:
http://www.moneyfactory.gov/newmoney/main.cfm/media/10download
Posted at 2:50PM on Jan 20th 2006 by John Dowdell