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Photoshop CS Adds Banknote Image Detection, Blocking?
Phosphor writes "A visitor to the Adobe Photoshop-for-Windows Forum (registration required to post, can log in as guest) has described a curious 'feature' with Photoshop 8 (also known as 'CS'). Seems this latest version of Adobe's flagship product has the built-in ability to detect that an image is of American currency. Something has been built into Photoshop's core coding that can detect something in images of currency and will prevent the user from opening the file. Apparently it will also do this with Euro notes; info on other currency is pending." According to other online reports, the latest version of Paint Shop Pro has similar restrictions, also known about since late last year.
So too, do I have the ability to tell American currency from other random images. If you have doubts about whether a document with an image on it in your wallet is American currency or not, please send it to me and I will verify whether it is American currency or otherwise.
I do this not for any personal gain, but only as a public service.
I have been pwned because my
With this new feature, how will the rap industry design album covers for their artists?
Until Slashdot fixes the funny modifier, use insightful or interesting. The poster knows your intentions.
...who aren't smart enough to use older versions of their software!!
man
there goes me photoshopping various goatse images.
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
Microsoft Photo Editor Response:
'It's a feature, not a bug. Honestly! We mean it this time!'
No more pictures of you/your friends/children/boss/etc on those 7 or 100,000,000 dollar bills
Then I won't be able to print me out some more moneys!
And next week the govt labels GIMP as a tool for counterfeiting - evil open source terrorist tool etc... :)
Does this include Monopoly money? I keep running out of it so I occasionally print out a little more. I believe the Microsoft monopoly does something similar... I would guess that's what they wrote MS Paint for.
True story.
Well, at least at this stage of the game, Photoshop can't recognize Monopoly money. Boardwalk here I come!
Bet it won't stop those images I've been using to run off fake quarters...
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Seems this latest version of Adobe's flagship product has the built-in ability to detect that an image is of American currency
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In other news: counterfeiters worldwide embrasse free software, the Gimp to receive funding from certain american-italian associations
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
This is why the Euro notes depict arches etc that do not have any real counterpart: ECB didn't want to fuck with people who were photoshopping their holiday pictures. Since the features depicted on the euro notes don't appear in real life, no photos will be blocked by PS (except for those "pile of money" photos appearing in the business section of your news paper. They will henceforth only be piles of monopoly money -- close enough to fool the eye, but not blocked by PS).
Maybe I was living in a cave but when was Photoshop Counter Strike released ???
But they didn't go far enough! They should also prevent you from editing images of coins!
Reminds me of a joke... A counterfeiter accidentally prints up a batch of $18 bills. He figures, what the heck, and heads off into the mountains to find some hillbillies, figuring they don't know anything about money anyway. He runs across a couple of them sitting on a porch, rolls down his window, and shouts, "Any of you got change for an $18 bill?"
One of them shouts back, "Sure do! You want 3 sixes or 6 threes?"
Attention counterfeiters: I have old versions of image-editing software for sale! The price just doubled but you don't have much choice now, do you? Payment by cash only ... uh, never mind.
It also simultaneously emails the FBI so they can come and question you.... Vee have Vays of makking eue Taulk!
I just scanned in a 10 dollar US bill (With Photoshop 6) and then saved it as jpeg, and then tried to open it with Photoshop CS. As far as I could tell, there was no problem opening it.
Maybe your $10 bill is a fake?
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
All I can say is my panties are definately in a bunch over this!! I have some pretty ugly relatives. What if Photoshop gives me error messages regarding the following: "Your family is so unattractive that we are redirecting you to the web where you can pick out better-looking people to populate your Adobe Family Photo Album.
It could happen.
Harpo Tunnel Syndrome--my wrist feels funny.
What happens if I want to make a backup copy of a note that I have in my wallet? At least if my wallet is lost or stolen i will have a backup of the cash that was inside there!
A group of GNU hackers implements a "compatibility" plugin with this mode for GIMP. Hackers worldwide are asked to send in notes of all currencies and nominals. As the authors say: "Of course the solution will be completely open-source. For now it is in alpha stage though. It correctly recognises my Monopoly notes, but Frank has donated a worn $1 and the test result was negative."
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It is illegal in holland at least to make reproductions of money so if you print a note you make it an absurd size. No one is gonna mistake a poster for a real a banknote.
In Holland perhaps, but you've obviously never lived in the US.
Just because everyone else jumped off the cliff, will you too?
Yes, because if everyone is jumping off a cliff they have a damn good reason to and I'm sure it wouldn't take me long to find out what it is.
Could someone, please, add this feature to the Gimp? We cannot fall behind industry leaders!... Oh, wait... Now I'm really confused.
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They are probably using a cracked version they downloaded from Usenet.
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It continues with pr0n.
"Error: Processing images of the goatse man is illegal under the Large Anal Cavity Act."
I would like to see a nipple detector.
if the GIMP team will have time to rip this feature off before 2.0.
In the UK, you don't have to surf - on a day like today, your notes go soggy as you walk down the street :-(
Using HTML in email is like putting sound effects on your phone calls. Just say <strong>no</strong>.
Here's hoping that PhotoshopCS also prevents common folk from printing gold bullion!
Just imagine how the lives of the rich would be ruined if that were to start happening!
there goes me photoshopping various goatse images.
On the other hand, Fark might improve!
Of course! Deny everything to that bunch of thieves and no-gooders, formerly known as "the users".
And next, the feature we're all waiting for: word processor detecting suspicious language and disabling printing of non-approved words. For good measure it will also insert some doubleplusgood slogans here and there.
You should change the name of your country to "United States of Authoritarianism" and be done with pretense of freedoms. It'll be cheaper theis way.
The moon is not fully subjugated. I demand a second assault wave preceded by a massive nuclear bombardment.
Now that software can recognise banknotes, how long will it be before your computer starts demanding money from you!
"I said, gimme a $50 - not a $5!"
I am anarch of all I survey.
That's rediculous. The image you linked is nowhere near high enough resolution to be able to produce a fake.
Oh well, I guess now it's...
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I have a website. It's about Macs.
I would like to see a nipple detector.
So come and look at this one nestling snugly in the front of my pants...
Can they add a feature to detect porn so the chicks in the magazines arent digital airbrush creations? Show off those tats, scars and mutant limbs! Btw, what if you are working on a patterned mask that it decides is too money like? What about art? What about if you need to make some fake money image for a website or raffle or something? Adobe has really gone to the shitter, from what I've heard from insiders.
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and I suppose a big pyramid with a disembodied eye embedded in it is perfectly nornmal and not at all spooky? ;-)
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Thanks! Let me just print that out for future reference.
Hmm, seem to be having problems...
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Unless you know of a law that forces Adobe to do this, this is simply Adobe being a responsible company. Don't like it? Buy something else.
Does anyone really buy photoshop anyway?
Well, this makes it pretty clear that there's a niche market that could be served here. Simply need to come up with a Photoshop clone that doesn't discriminate against counterfitters. And man, I bet they'd be willing to pay a lot for that. Cash, under the table. Excellent!
But I only copy banknotes for backups!
"with their freedom lost all virtue lose" - Milton
Check this out.
Ha, someone must have read your comment and said, "Hey, we need to release a new version for Negatyfus."
First - get a dictionary and look up censopship.
I couldn't find it. I also couldn't find "promlem". Dang defective dictionary....
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As a matter of fact, I am a lawyer. But I play an actor on TV.
DAMN, I'm good!
At least now they'll have to do it with real currency
We now have confirmed reports from an informed Orange County minister that Ethel is still an active communist.
Once, while having dinner with an attractive you lady i had met - a smarmy and arrogant (clicking his fingers all the tim) guy on the table next to us decided to write a cheque on his napkin...much to the amusement of his date. The waiter graciously accepted the payment, and took it through back. At which point the 7 foot chef came out, picked up the guy...firemans lifted him out the restaurant, came back in and asked the lady if she could offer any other form of payment. She burst into tears.
It was the most amusing date i ever had.
I used to work for IEG, Internet Entertainment Group (now dead), owners of the flagship "ClubLove" and 100's of others. If Photoshop started banning PORN, I can tell you that you would see GIMP eat up a huge market shair. PORN (not "pr0n") is big business. IEG at one time had 10 Silicon Graphics machines feeding into four OC-3 lines (and a bunch of T-1's for getting the live PORN from the studio). We used PhotoShop extensively.
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
Tried to open your .pdf, but Acrobat refused to display it because there's a bank note on it. :-( ;-)
Why do I suddenly feel like adding these "constellations" to every image (not currency) that I have?
ya...because before people were using photoshop to make the currency they used to buy photoshop, which they used to make the currency they used to buy photoshop, which they used to make the currency to they used to buy photoshop....
*boggle*
...six-foot fences were installed all over the country, including some across the road, some blocking entrances to schools, hospitals and mall, some in your backyard and one unlucky fellow got a six-foot fence across his bed...
I don't know about him, but if it were me, I'd treat the six foot fence in my bed like the six foot fence across the road, and just drive dright through it! Might take a few thrusts, though.
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Chris Knight: Not right now.
Susan: A girl's gotta have her standards.
Carthago delenda est!
What if a porn actor/actress were to get a tattoo that contained the currency watermark -- that little 5 dot pattern? Hmm.. that would be dumb.
No... here's something dumb/ingenious: I've heard that some places are passing laws that require digital cameras to make a loud noise when taking a picture. This is in order to discourage sneaky perverts from taking a picture of you and then going home and jerking off to it, I guess. What about that guy at the bottom of the escalator, talking on his cellphone? Is he actually taking upskirt photos and then putting them on his website? People are apparently concerned about this enough that they are pressuring governments to do something about it, hence the "cameras must make a noise" legislation.
But someone might be peeking up your skirt with a "legacy camera" that doesn't make noise, and you would never know.
What is a modest girl to do? Wear currency watermark panties! Delightful little panties, covered with the five-dot "constellation" pattern. It seems only proper. Why, the only girls who don't wear our brand of panties, must be naughty exhibitionist immoral girls.
Do you want your daughter to wear plain white panties? I don't think so. Fortunately, I'm here to help you.
I'll make millions.
As copyright owner of this comment, I authorize everyone to defeat any technological measure which limits access to it.
You need to look in the dicitonray.
If corporations are people, aren't stockholders guilty of slavery?
This also stops you from printing coins. After failing to scan a dollar bill, I attempted to use four quarters instead. This failed about 50 cents in, so I tried to use nickels instead. I managed to scan 65 cents in this time, probably because some of the coins were more worn, but it still failed.
Fortunately, it seems to be possible to use multiple types of coins to form a complete dollar, and even at higher resolutions! Unfortunately, most tellers will not accept coins made out of paper, no matter what the DPI resolution is. The consistency of metal has proven very difficult to replicate with paper, even laser jet paper.
As a final attempt to copy money, I wrote myself a check for $1, endorsed it, and attempted to scan it in. Unfortunately, I had previously printed my own checks using PS 6 with a "dollar bill" background image, and while there was some banding on the left side (I was running low on ink ad obviously couldn't afford to buy a new cartridge), Photoshop CS will not allow me to scan in these checks. I'll be ordering a new book of checks with the "Standard Blue" design from my bank; however this costs nearly $16 and I need to print up some money to buy these checks first.
I really hate signatures, but go to my website.
We used PhotoShop extensively
Are your porn stars really that bad looking?
I'm guessing (hoping) that the detection mechanism relies on some optical property of banknote paper, rather than simple recognition of features on the bill's surface. For instance, maybe it's able to detect microprinting or those little colored threads embedded in the paper.
If we can find out specifically what property causes Photoshop to recognize a bill, we can add that property into all of our images, thereby rendering them unopenable in Photoshop! The sinister and nefarious open-source bandits could write a worm that, after infecting a machine, would alter every image file on the system so that it was unopenable. Photoshop would become a useless application, and The GIMP would reign supreme!
If I see another of your posts using 'praps' as opposed to 'perhaps' I am seriously going to fucking shoot somebody. That usage is almost as irritating as emote-icons and substituting alternate symbols in words.
Perhaps your post subject should read 'The problem? Censorship!'. I don't know; I could be wrong.
ps. Nothing personal is being implied by this post. I am just mentioning some of my pet peeves in order to make myself feel more important.
Gimp is structured that way to give the end user a feeling of accomplishment when he actually does something. Haven't you noticed the webpages that might feature a simple drop shadow or two, but at the bottom it proudly says "DESIGNED WITH GIMP!!!!!!!!!!"? That's a badge of honor, buddy!
"If you didn't want to print counterfeit money, why are you using The GIMP?"
Easy: So I don't have to print counterfeit money to pay for Photoshop.
I used to get high on life, but I developed a tolerance. Now I need something stronger.
3. all negatives, plates, positives, digitized storage medium, graphic files, magnetic medium, optical storage devices, and any other thing used in the making of the illustration that contain an image of the illustration or any part thereof are destroyed and/or deleted or erased after their final use.
And apparently you also should destroy your scanner, keyboard, monitor, CPU, and you may want to gouge out your eyes and cut off your mouse-clicking finger.