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Detecting Currency in Photoshop

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Re: Detecting Currency in Photoshop

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Post by DrStalker »

When this feature was first added to photoshop it caused a noticable delay when opening files or pasting content from outside photoshop. It was possible to disable the check by removing a DLL from photoshop and get the speed back to normal.

Somehow I don't think this feature has done much to discourage serious counterfitters, it's just annoyed legitimate users, especially as there are pefectly legal ways in which an image of a banknote can be used.

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Post by pyre »

DrStalker wrote: post #2

When this feature was first added to photoshop it caused a noticable delay when opening files or pasting content from outside photoshop. It was possible to disable the check by removing a DLL from photoshop and get the speed back to normal. Somehow I don't think this feature has done much to discourage serious counterfitters, it's just annoyed legitimate users, especially as there are pefectly legal ways in which an…

I don't think that it's meant to discourage serious counterfeiters. It's meant as a barrier to casual counterfeiters. Now that tools are powerful as Photoshop are at the fingertips of the masses, this seems like it is meant as a way to prevent people that otherwise wouldn't know the first thing about counterfeiting from just firing up Photoshop and trying to make fake money. (I'm not commenting on it's efficacy though)

Re: Detecting Currency in Photoshop

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Post by aw3c2 »

slavak wrote: post #3

Is this really a prevalent feature these days? I must be completely out of the loop. That must be the most useless "feature" I've ever heard of. What possible reason is there for doing this?!

I would guess some politicians asked for way to stop people counterfeiting money with image manipulation tools or scanners. This solution satisfied them and made them feel good.

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Post by jwr »

When you buy Photoshop, does it say on the box or in the specs that it will choose which images it will allow you to process and refuse ones it deems unsuitable?

Just wondering.

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Post by Zak »

slavak wrote: post #3

Is this really a prevalent feature these days? I must be completely out of the loop. That must be the most useless "feature" I've ever heard of. What possible reason is there for doing this?!

I understand why this might make an uneducated politician happy. What I don't understand is the incentive for Adobe to do it. Was there ever a danger of restrictions on image editing software?

Re: Detecting Currency in Photoshop

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Post by benjoffe »

The best solution is to just make the currency very difficult to counterfeit, eg. see Australian money which is plastic, textured and has a transparent section; alas, this software still detects Australian notes.
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