How to scan money in Photoshop

Scanning money in
PhotoshopPhotoshop has a charming "feature" that prevents you from importing images of money. It's an anti-counterfeiting measure of dubious value, and if you're a designer who wants to make fair use of images of money in a piece, the restriction is a huge pain. Fortunately, there's a way around it, as described by Deke McClelland in this video at O'Reilly's Digital Media blog. It's a really easy trick that basically boils down to this: Every version of Photoshop comes with ImageReady. ImageReady doesn't have any anti-counterfeiting technology, and Photoshop implicitly trusts anything ImageReady sends its way. Presto!

[Via Boing Boing]

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