[derbs]

All you PS CS users, try pasting this:

http://pbx.mine.nu/Series2004NoteFront.jpg

into a document.

More info:

slashdot link

[rjenkinson]

does it only apply to the whole image? what would happen if you first pasted half the image into a document then the other half?

-r.

[derbs]

I'm not sure about that, but i pasted it into PS7, hid the layer, and that opened in CS just fine

[sandsl]

Exactly the same with British Notes:
http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/bankn...s/bigfront.jpg

"This application does not support the unauthorized processing of banknote images."

Half of the image at a time does work, and gets round the problem.

I'd guess the banknotes have some kind of watermark which Photoshop looks for - applying a slight, 0.1% blur in ImageReady CS (which doesn't lock out banknote editing) allows me to open the banknote image fine in photoshop cs.

[himself]

This is some new anticounterfeit code that an international consortium of banks have lobbied just about developer to insert into their image processing apps.

more info…

I can understand why, seeing how precise the current technology is… it's not difficult at all to get incredibly accurate reproductions with todays technology (sans the new aitcounterfeiting code). However, I can see a lot of legitimate reasons for needing to open scans of currency in Photoshop, et al…

[himself]

heh… you could always use a previous version of photoshop.

[Synotic]

Originally posted by rjenkinson:
does it only apply to the whole image? what would happen if you first pasted half the image into a document then the other half?

-r.

That doesn't work apparently... I can copy random pieces of the bill and it still pops up the message. However you can do something like flip the image upside-down within another app, then open it within Photoshop. It seems to only apply the analysis on images in the clipboard... outside of the app and when opening new files. This means that once the image is in Photoshop you can copy, paste, edit it etc... fairly easily. You just can't command-control-shift-4 copy the image and paste it in again.

[MindFad]

Flipping horizontally and vertically also doesn't work. Copy and pasting works to a degree, I found, but not always. It depends on the size of what you copy. At a certain size, it stopped working, so I had to do it by small pieces, which would've taken forever. It's pretty smart. I found that I could trick it with this that I did in another app (sectors had to be small—it didn't work the first time):



Opens fine in Photoshop 8, but you need the patience to piece it back together. Also, I was able to save this in PS and open it back up pieced together by hiding the layer, as mentioned above. Don't know why anyone would to go through all that trouble to look at money, though. Adobe still has some work to do, though.

Oh, wait.

[andreas_g4]

weired stuff man. I'll try it with some € notes as soon as I get home.

[MacDog]

Try removing the Digimarc plug-in.

[himself]

Is this security feature localized? I can't open any american currency in PS CS, but british £'s work without a hitch...