Photographing MONEY

[Ken_Tannenbaum@adobeforums.com]

I am in the middle of designing a website which sells, among other things, moneyclips and the shots I'm using of moneyclips covering MOST of a $20 bill I can't open. A window pops up indicating that PS won't do it. Is there a workaround? Thanks.

[Buko@adobeforums.com]

Open in ImageReady first.

Open in Photoshop 7 and save. then open in Photoshop CS.

Open in Illustrator copy and paste to PSCS

[Ann_Shelbourne@adobeforums.com]

Another busy graphics professional who has had his day disrupted by this useless Digimarc product which Adobe has so foolishly, and pointlessly, dumped on Photoshop CS.

Adobe, it's time to admit that you were WRONG and remove this junk code from Photoshop.

[Ramón_G_Castañeda@adobeforums.com]

Just to clarify Buko's post, he's giving you three alternative ways of doing it, not a succession of steps.

1-- Open it in ImageReagy, then "JumpTo" Photoshop; or

2-- Open it in an earlier version of Photoshop and save it; or

3-- Open in Illustrator, copy and paste to PSCS

If you are really photographing it and the whole bill is not visible anyway, try covering the so-called plastic security thread and/or the "metallic" eagle. This is just a hunch, but I'm inclined to believe that one of these elements is what triggers the CDS.

At first there was speculation that CDS looked for certain shapes, dimensions, etc., but it may be something less sophisticated than that.

For a description of the security thread and the metallic eagle, check out this link:

<http://www.bankofinternet.com/QuickHelp/us20new.asp>

[Edit: Sorry, the previous link I had posted previously stopped working a minute ago. This one is not as graphically descriptive but it serves its purpose]

[progress@adobeforums.com]

google

[r_harvey@adobeforums.com]

Photoshop Elements.

[Ramón_G_Castañeda@adobeforums.com]

Or Graphic Converter, or ColorIt, or ...

[Wade_Zimmerman@adobeforums.com]

Oh boy you guys are going to get into a lot of trouble wait until the Feds hear about this:

Ob Boy Oh boy!

[Todie@adobeforums.com]

Buy Digimarc stock! : )

[Philo_Calhoun@adobeforums.com]

You'll loose 16 bit editing if you run it through IL or IR. Old versions of PS work great. If you can trick your scanner to scan it in and convert to 25% or 400% scale, PC CS will accept it without problems. (and you maintain 16 bit/channel editing capabilities without having to keep an old version of PS on your system)

[Ann_Shelbourne@adobeforums.com]

Wade:

Please go to this website and actually READ the Federal guidelines on the legal use of currency images:
<http://www.treas.gov/usss/money_illustrations.shtml>

There is NOTHING illegal in scanning or photographing currency -- nor in editing such files with a computer program.

The only thing that is NOT legal is to print an image of currency at sizes between 75% and 150% of actual size or to print images on both sides of the paper.

Digimarc's code is not only preventing users of Photoshop CS from exercising their legal rights, it also slows down file-opening in Photoshop CS. The only ethical wrong-doing here is by Adobe who incorporated this abominable code (going far beyond anything that is required by US law) and, until recently, deliberately obscured the fact from purchaser's of their software that they had crippled Photoshop.

As for buying stock in Digimarc? I wouldn't touch that company's stock with a 20-foot barge pole.

[progress@adobeforums.com]

unless you like investing in companies whose protection systems are disabled by changing 2 bytes of code within a week of its announcement...

[Todie@adobeforums.com]

I was kidding Ann.
(but the stock is doing too well and Adobe may have helped)

[Ann_Shelbourne@adobeforums.com]

And when Adobe eventually comes to their senses, and flushes the infuriating and pointless Digimarc code out of their software, what will the stock do then?

I am staying off that south-bound train.

[Allen_Wicks@adobeforums.com]

Imagine how the Adobe engineers must feel, forced by some person [perhaps too polite a noun] in management to kludge their great product with unethical junk code.

[Ramón_G_Castañeda@adobeforums.com]

unethical junk code.




Dumb, inefficient, easily defeatable junk code.

[Gary_Newman@adobeforums.com]

Maybe that's what makes an Adobe engineer happy; it's junk foisted on them, but easliy defeated. There, Big Brother. Happy?

[Larryr544@adobeforums.com]

UH OH here we go again.

[progress@adobeforums.com]

Gary...CS SP1 will tell...

but it does make me wonder about things if Adobe dont know how it works but some net cracker can undo it in days...