Making money

[simpo two]

Did you know...

..that if you scan, say, a £10 note and then try to import it into PS, it will tell you not to copy banknotes?

How does it KNOW a banknote??? Programmed with pattern recognition for the world's currency? Amazing.




I had to scan the fecker in four parts

[cliff123]

Its not April 1st is it?

Either you got confused with the date, or you have one smart computer.

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simpo two said:

I had to scan the fecker in four parts

It didn't tell you not to copy small change then?

[simpo two]

I kid you not!

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simpo two said:

I kid you not!

Blimey, your tenner has turned into a twenty. Now that is clever

[tonyhetherington]

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Blimey, your tenner has turned into a twenty. Now that is clever

That must have been his plan all along!!

Seriously though, that is mighty clever! Perhaps they have pre-scanned images that it recognises when you import an image. I wonder what else it does it with...do you have any $ or € !?

[docevi1]

and you wonder why PS is so slow?

[V6GTO]

No warning with Euros!



Martin.

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V6GTO said:

No warning with Euros! Martin.

Proves what we've known all along: Euros are not real money!

[FourWheelDrift]

Does it work if the banknote is scanned & imported upside down?

If it does it must recognise a pattern int he note or perhaps the waternark......or a combination of things maybe.

>> Edited by FourWheelDrift on Thursday 3rd March 18:28

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FourWheelDrift said:

perhaps the waternark......

It's the waternark that dobs you in

[wedge girl]

We've tried to scan a Bank Statement before and it just came out as black & white lines.

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wedge girl said:

We've tried to scan a Bank Statement before and it just came out as black & white lines.

Better than red numbers

[ywouldi]

Stops you in Paint HSop Pro 9 as well! I'd heard of this but never seen it, pretty clever stuff!

[dcw@pr]

apparently it has to do with some form of patterns only visible in the green channel. Ive scanned in money before to test it and it opened fine, but I have also been blocked from opening a picture file of someone elses note. Maybe it has to be quite a good copy - obviously it wouldn't be too convincing if there were lots of ripples/folds etc anyway

[dcw@pr]

more info here

http://slashdot.org/articles/04/01/08/0111228.shtml?tid=152&tid=185

and here

http://slashdot.org/articles/04/01/20/1734209.shtml?tid=158&tid=99

[simpo two]

Well as I discovered, if you really want to copy banknotes, do the scan as four seperate quarters (it recognises halves) and assemble in PS. Make the first canvas four times the width, then cut and paste the other 3 images into place. No big deal really!

The biggest hurdle of all to the would-be forger is the paper, so I'm surprised PS and PSP bother with their poncey little routines. Unless of course you can buy packs of 'HP Banknote Paper' at Staples

[dcw@pr]

simpo two said:

so I'm surprised PS and PSP bother with their poncey little routines.

apparently the code is provided to PS/PSP etc as a whole by the government, they didn't actually make it themselves

[simpo two]

dcw@pr said:

apparently the code is provided to PS/PSP etc as a whole by the government, they didn't actually make it themselves

That figures. Politicians are too stupid to realise that people can get round it by scanning it in four sections!

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simpo two said:

dcw@pr said: apparently the code is provided to PS/PSP etc as a whole by the government, they didn't actually make it themselves That figures. Politicians are too stupid to realise that people can get round it by scanning it in four sections!

Government ageants are heading for your house as we speak. Farewell Simpo, you are off to a better place, far far away.