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posted by scubacuda
on Saturday January 10, @11:51AM
from the fake-$ dept.
Google News: At the request of government regulators and bankers Adobe has included technology in Photoshop to prevent counterfeiting money. Adobe revealed it added the technology after a customer complained in an online support forum about mysterious behavior by the new $649 "Photoshop CS" software when opening an image of a $20 bill.
In the United States, such technology goes beyond the requirements of the law. U.S. artists are able to scan and use the image of currency in their works as long as the image is less than 75 percent or greater than 150 percent of the dimensions of the original bill. Artists are also required to only make single-sided prints of the image and to destroy the digital copy when the work is done.
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