New photoshop won't let you use images of new currency

Originally posted by: Sifl

Originally posted by: SaigonK

Originally posted by: Sifl

Originally posted by: SaigonK Did anyone ever stop to think that the image might be watermarked? Thus the reason why you cannot open it in PS 8? I bet if you scan in a 20 dollar bill, Photoshop CS will open it up without issue.....

Negative, it's been tried. Doesn't work.

Umm...worked just fine for me....

Weird. Won't work for me. You using CS?

It must also be smart enough to figure out that you're a serial counterfeiter.

 

[SaigonK]

And the screen shot to show it worked...

HERE

 

[gentobu]

Originally posted by: SaigonK

Originally posted by: Sifl

Originally posted by: SaigonK Did anyone ever stop to think that the image might be watermarked? Thus the reason why you cannot open it in PS 8? I bet if you scan in a 20 dollar bill, Photoshop CS will open it up without issue.....

Negative, it's been tried. Doesn't work.

Umm...worked just fine for me....

Was the bill crumpled, tilted, etc? Heh I wish I had PS 8 so I could experiment with this.

Edit: Nevermind. ^

 

[ndee]

Originally posted by: jumpr
So how does it recognize the presence of money? It's not like every picture of a bill will be the same, especially if it's tilted a little...it would make it really hard for Photoshop to figure out it's a bill.

 

[iwearnosox]

Originally posted by: jumpr

Originally posted by: Sifl

Originally posted by: SaigonK

Originally posted by: Sifl

Originally posted by: SaigonK Did anyone ever stop to think that the image might be watermarked? Thus the reason why you cannot open it in PS 8? I bet if you scan in a 20 dollar bill, Photoshop CS will open it up without issue.....

Negative, it's been tried. Doesn't work.

Umm...worked just fine for me....

Weird. Won't work for me. You using CS?

It must also be smart enough to figure out that you're a serial counterfeiter.

Lies I tell you. How was I to know all those bills were fake? I got them as change... yeah, that's the ticket... as change...

 

[ndee]

you can actually do a print-screen of that jpg, no?

 

[SaigonK]

I figure it is one of two things with this picture.


1. The markthat says "SPECIMEN"
2. There is a watermark / digital mark in this particular photo.

Again, i behove someone to scan in a new twenty dollar bill and it will work just fine I bet.

 

[MustISO]

I used to work at a place that had a color copier that recognized money. Wouldn't copy it.

 

[911paramedic]

It would be more impressive if it sent the secret service a message.

 

[royaldank]

Originally posted by: MustISO
I used to work at a place that had a color copier that recognized money. Wouldn't copy it.

Most high end copiers nowdays will detect money. Some will completely shut down if you run too many copies of money through the machine. Others will not copy at all.

Generally, any copy machine good enough to produce close enough counterfit dollars also prints the copy machine's seriel number on the paper as well.

 

[FuZoR]

Originally posted by: ndee
you can actually do a print-screen of that jpg, no?

nope i just tried this lol

 

[maziwanka]

whoa. thats kinda cool.

 

[samgau]

And scary too....

 

[FreshPrince]

I think if you have auto-updates turned (which it is by default), then you will have the latest version of PS7. In my case, I never let any software run auto-update, which is why this experiment worked for me

I could be wrong though

 

[Bassyhead]

Originally posted by: TwinkleToes77
Works for me

Also works for me in PS 7.0

 

[nodoubts2k]

Originally posted by: rudeguy
works fine in 7.0

 

[GTaudiophile]

How the heck does PS CS "know" you're attempting to paste an image of money?

 

[arcenite]

I got the same error There go my dreams of $$

Edit: It's strange even cause of the red specimen lettering...

Bill

 

[3point14]

HA!!!!! I found a way around it! It works on all of my dimes, nickels, and quarters. Now all I need to do is get a laser printer and....ohhh, nevermind

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

Originally posted by: SaigonK
ok try this out.

You can actually open it in Imageready. LOL!

Just open up Photoshop CS, then launch Imageready and voila! the 20 dollar bill opens right up!
Then all you have to do is select "Edit in Photoshop" and it opens it up. What a joke!

confirmed...that works just fine

 

[sygyzy]

They know the same way porn searching software knows how to find porn in images. It's just guessing using a range of color values.

 

[Aves]

Ripped from AlterSlash which got it from /.

Re:Algorithm for spotting UK/EU currency? - by zero_offset (Score: 5, Informative) Thread

I copied the text below directly from Markus Kuhn in the forum linked in the original article, yes, those same dots are now on US currency:

For those of you curious about how this algorithm detects a banknote, here is a slide of a short talk that I gave to our local research group soon after I discovered the ?EURion Constellation? two years ago while experimenting with a new Xerox color photocopier and a 10 euro note:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/eurion.pdf

The algorithm looks in the blue channel of a color image for little circles and most likely examines the distance distribution encountered. I have discovered a small constellation of just five circles (a bit like Orion with the belt starts merged) that will be rejected by a Xerox color photocopier installed next door from here as a banknote. Black on white circles do not work.

These little yellow, green or orange 1 mm large circles have been on European banknotes for many years. I found them on German marks, British pounds and the euro notes. In the US, they showed up only very recently on the new 20$ bill. On some notes like the euro, the circles are blatantly obvious, whereas on others the artists carefully integrated them into their design. On the 20 pound note, they appear as ?notes? in an unlikely short music score, in the old German 50 mark note, they are neatly embedded into the background pattern, and in the new 20 dollar bill, they are used as the 0 of all the yellow 20 number printed across the note. The constellation are probably detected by the fact that the squares of the distances of the circles are integer multiples of the smallest one.

I have later been told that this scheme was invented by Omron and that the circle patter also encodes the issuing bank.

 

[Walleye]

how many of you are using a legitimate version of photoshop?

 

[WinkOsmosis]

That's funny. I can save and open it just fine in PS. What's the big deal?

 

[WinkOsmosis]

Originally posted by: Walleye
how many of you are using a legitimate version of photoshop?

I'm proud to say that my counterfeit photoshop can open pictures of money so I can counterfeit.