Photoshop CS3 and money security

Apr-21-10, 10:22 pm by Hanford
File under: tech, Photoshop, fun

I wanted to zoom in on the new 100 dollar bill the US launched today, so I copied and pasted it into Photoshop. Photoshop warned me that I wouldn't be able to print it! I knew Photoshop has had this kind of detection in it for a while, but I didn't think it would apply to low-res jpegs of the money from various blogs and whatnot.

While my intent was never to print it (just look at it with the magnifying glass) I decided to see what Photoshop would do if I tried to print it. I pasted into another document I was working on and hit print. Here's what happened:

money security

It printed fine until it got to the very bottom of the bill, then it killed the rest of the print job and replaced it with a URL to rulesforuse.org.

Rulesforuse.org (no I'm not going to link directly to it here) has some info about reproduction, but also a bunch of broken links. It sent me to a 404 when I tried to click on Reproduction Rules for US money. Nice.

NOTE: Like I said above, I originally was not going to print it. I only tried to after Photoshop warned me I wouldn't be able to. I'm assuming then that the partial document Photoshop did was a legal-to-reproduce portion of the money. I'm assuming I didn't break any laws here. If I did -- I blame Photoshop. And I shredded the printout. Hold on, someone's at my door ...

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