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Photoshop CS Adds Banknote Image Detection, Blocking?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the forgeries-be-darned dept.

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.

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  1. Sucks to be you (you="proprietary software users") by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Heheh, not only are Open Source programs like GIMP better [ assuming you don't need CMYK support ;-) ], free, and come with source, they also provide for infinite freedom. Nobody is going to force this kind of bullshit on open source users.

    Proprietary software users, SUCK IT!

  2. Re:Will localized versions "detect" local currency by lewp · · Score: 0, Troll

    The problem with that idea is that blank paper is worth more than Canadian money.

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    Game... blouses.
  3. Re:What a Shame by flyboy974 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Don't worry, they can afford to shred their abundance of crack money and scan each individual piece, they'll be ok.

    I thought we were allowed to reproduce the US dollar as long as it was 2x the original. Does this mean that the us dollar is copyrighted? I don't recall seeing a (C) on it.

  4. Re:GNAA Announces 1000+ posts crapflood by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Photoshop... what is THAT all about?... is it goode, or is it WHACK?