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Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Oct 14, 2008 16:49

What's happened to "New layer via cut" and "New layer via copy"?

Ian Osborne · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 424

Layer menu, New, bottom two options. Is that what you meant?

Zardoz · **Posted:** Tue Oct 14, 2008 16:53

Are you working in Indexed colour? ie on a gif

Switch to RGB before you save it back out.

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Oct 14, 2008 16:56

Ian Osborne wrote:

Layer menu, New, bottom two options. Is that what you meant?

Yeah, there they are. You used to be able to get them by right-clicking on the layer in the Layers window.
Ta.

GazChap · **Posted:** Tue Oct 14, 2008 17:05

None of the guys in the office believed me when I said that Photoshop wouldn't let me scan in and then print out a banknote.

I. SHOWED. THEM! HA!

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

GazChap wrote:

None of the guys in the office believed me when I said that Photoshop wouldn't let me scan in and then print out a banknote.

What does it do? I know it throws a wobbler. It's the faint yellow dots that do it.

Ian Osborne · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 424

I scanned scottish notes a while back. I think you can scan Monopoly money too...

Zardoz · **Posted:** Tue Oct 14, 2008 17:08

It turns you into a cybernetic pink tank.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49237

Ian Osborne wrote:

I scanned scottish notes a while back. I think you can scan Monopoly money too...

There's a difference?

GazChap · **Posted:** Tue Oct 14, 2008 17:17

richardgaywood wrote:

What does it do? I know it throws a wobbler.

Just throws up an error message saying that you can open and edit banknote images but not save or print them.

Quote:

It's the faint yellow dots that do it.

Yup, it's the EURion Constellation and appears on most modern banknotes all over the world.

CUS · **Posted:** Tue Oct 14, 2008 17:20

Oo, that reminds me. I do like that if you declare independence in Colonization II, your flag is the 'Stars n Stripes', but the stars are Euro star circle thing, mmm. Nice touch.

edit: and not the same thing as you mention above. Whoops! Sorry, carry on.

Ian Osborne · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 424

So why not just tipp-ex out one of the circles, then add it later?

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

GazChap wrote:

Quote:

It's the faint yellow dots that do it.

Yup, it's the EURion Constellation and appears on most modern banknotes all over the world.

Actually that Wikipedia entry says:

Quote:

Users of recent versions of image editors, such as Adobe Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro, discovered that these also refuse to print banknotes. According to an article in Wired magazine, the banknote detection code in these applications, called the Counterfeit Deterrence System (CDS), was designed by the Central Bank Counterfeit Deterrence Group and supplied to companies such as Adobe as a binary module. However, experiments by Steven J. Murdoch and others showed that this banknote detection code does not rely on the EURion pattern.[6] It instead detects a digital watermark embedded in the images, developed by Digimarc.[7] (see Central Bank Counterfeit Deterrence Group)

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Oct 14, 2008 17:58

CUS wrote:

Whoops! Sorry, carry on.

Nah, talk about what you like, I got an answer in the first reply.

GazChap · **Posted:** Tue Oct 14, 2008 19:02

richardgaywood wrote:

However, experiments by Steven J. Murdoch and others showed that this banknote detection code does not rely on the EURion pattern.[6] It instead detects a digital watermark embedded in the images, developed by Digimarc.[7] (see Central Bank Counterfeit Deterrence Group)

Curious. When I was demonstrating it to my colleagues earlier, Photoshop refused to print the banknote until I'd blacked out the dots in the EURion pattern.

mrbogus · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 112

GazChap wrote:

Just throws up an error message saying that you can open and edit banknote images but not save or print them.

Can you open, edit, take a screengrab with a different app and then print that? If so, doesn't that make the whole thing slightly more fiddly but ultimately pointless?

In a similar vein, less technical people at work used to ask if it was possible to create PDFs that you couldn't copy from or print out. They finally realised how pointless this was when shown that if you can see the PDF's contents, you can quite easily bypass all security measures with high-tech copyright infringing technologies such as a pen and a piece of paper.

Malabelm · **Posted:** Tue Oct 14, 2008 22:29

Don't most printers refuse to print bank notes too?

itsallwater · **Posted:** Tue Oct 14, 2008 22:50

My cash point doesn't want to print them for me either! :smug:

Mr Russell · **Joined:** 6th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 12328

Attachment:

ten pounds.jpg

Don't say I never do anything for you.

I guess the answer is to not use Photoshop scanning software.

The Rev Owen · **Posted:** Wed Oct 15, 2008 15:48

CUS wrote:

Oo, that reminds me. I do like that if you declare independence in Colonization II, your flag is the 'Stars n Stripes', but the stars are Euro star circle thing, mmm. Nice touch.

You mean, it's just the original US flag? That had the stars in a circle.

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Apr 19, 2012 23:22

SUPER-NECROMANCE!

I've been doing some Photoshop scripting. It's surprisingly easy.

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