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[challenge entry] Is this true....?
Just having a discussion here at work and wondered if anyone can confirm if this is actually true? Apparently if you import any currency (Note)into any adobe package it will watermark it and basically stop you from creating millyons of dollars...

We would have tried this out ourselves...but obviously we're at work and of course very busy!

Discuss...

From the When the laws of physics pack up challenge. See all 348 entries (closed)

(, Fri 18 Jun 2004, 17:22, archived)
# ahem
you mean the colour printer was broken?
(, Fri 18 Jun 2004, 17:23, archived)
# sounds like
100% of fact

to me
(, Fri 18 Jun 2004, 17:23, archived)
# that is true for the most part
i tried scanning an older Canadian bill into photoshop and it allowed me to do whatever i wanted to it
(, Fri 18 Jun 2004, 17:24, archived)
# How the hell does it know
if it's a note? My money is on false.
(, Fri 18 Jun 2004, 17:24, archived)
# true i'm afraid
only works with some notes in some currencies but there's a recognition algorithm built in... not harfd to get around it though

incidentally, it's not just photoshop it's in
(, Fri 18 Jun 2004, 17:26, archived)
# The microdots of ink in the queens eyes
are made up of tiny pictures of THE FEAR


/Or alternatively your currency of choice
/Mine is the Vietnamese Dong
(, Fri 18 Jun 2004, 17:26, archived)
# As others have said...
it's down to the dots on modern notes. See The EURion constellation (about 1 Mb)
(, Fri 18 Jun 2004, 19:02, archived)
# for some new notes, yes
I seem to recall that we've dicussed this at length here
(, Fri 18 Jun 2004, 17:26, archived)
# Photoshop CS does prevent you. (other Image Software does it as well)
Older Photoshops and older notes don't do it.

(It's the pattern of tiny rings that are on *all* modern currency - worldwide, I believe. Check your notes - on a £5 note, they're on the oval on both sides.)
(, Fri 18 Jun 2004, 17:26, archived)
# Ahhh thankya!
nice one...thanks b3tans!
(, Fri 18 Jun 2004, 17:27, archived)
# On the £10 or £20 they're disguised as musical notes.
I was going to print the pattern on a t-shirt so that no-one could scan a photo of me in (just for an experiment) but it didn't work.
(, Fri 18 Jun 2004, 17:30, archived)
# it didnt watermark it. so i tried printing it.
halfway through this popped up.
(, Fri 18 Jun 2004, 17:37, archived)
# Yay...!
(, Fri 18 Jun 2004, 18:09, archived)
# that url
actually works
'You have been redirected to this website because banknote images are subject to specific rules governing reproduction. Restrictions for use of banknote images vary by country'

Bloody heck!
(, Sat 19 Jun 2004, 19:25, archived)