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Loading ...The latest version of Adobe Photoshop has an “Anti-Counterfeiting” feature built in to it. If you try to scan in a bank note - be it US or other - the software will present a pop-up window that tells you are breaking hte law and directs you to a website for more details. So legitimate graphic designers and artists cannot legally scan in money? Wrong.
US Law allows color reproductions of U.S. bank notes so long as the reproductions are smaller than 75 percent or larger than 150 percent of actual size. The reproduction must be one-sided, and all materials, including graphic files that were used to make the reproduction, must be destroyed afterward.
Regardless, the Adobe (and allegedly Paint Shop Pro 
“feature can be easily circumvented.
Wired: Advertising agency creative director Ann Shelbourne found she could save a bank-note image in an earlier version of Photoshop and open it without trouble in Photoshop CS.
Other Photoshop CS users said they had successfully imported bank-note images by invoking Photoshop from another Adobe product or by scanning an image in pieces and reassembling it in Photoshop.
The ease with which people seemed to be eluding the anti-counterfeiting software left some wondering why Adobe had included it in the first place.
