A gauntlet thrown down by the U.S. Treasury Department...
Boing Boing: How to fool Photoshop into opening and printing scans of money
How to fool Photoshop into opening and printing scans of money
Photoshop can recognize money and refuse to let you open a scan of a bill (the latest version will open it but not print it). But Photoshop expert Deke McClelland has a hilarious five-minute podcast about the ins and outs of scanning US currency.
Of course, I whipped out my wallet right away, peeled out a no-longer-crisp bill, and slapped it on my scanner. I hate being told I cannot do something.
--hmm, seemed too easy. The 100 dollar bill went without a hitch, and the 20 dollar bill took an extra 5 seconds, per the instructions helpfully provided by Deke McClelland (who has his name on several books on my shelf).
