A Look Inside dekePod — Beware of What You Might Find
In this interview, Deke McClelland introduces dekePod, his new video podcast devoted to computer graphics, digital imaging, and anything else that happens to spill out of his head. Lasting a mere five minutes (short enough to watch three times in a single coffee break), the pilot episode shows you how to scan and open money in Adobe Photoshop.
In the United States, it’s legal to integrate money into artwork as long as you follow specific guidelines. (To research those guidelines or explore the rules for non-U.S. currency, go to www.rulesforuse.org and select a country.) But erring on the side of caution, Photoshop sometimes recognizes money and tries to stop you from using it. Fortunately for law-abiding citizens who are smart enough to follow rules, Deke knows a workaround.
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Being in the print business I knew you could copy Money as long as you changed it immensly, and/or you also chnaged the scale a lot. So I found this to be VERY interesting. As well as entertaining.
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General information about the reproduction of banknotes:The Counterfeit Detection Act of 1992, Public Law 102-550, in Section 411 of Title 31 of the Code of Federal Regulations, permits color illustrations of U.S. currency, provided that:
- the illustration is of a size less than three-fourths or more than one and one-half, in linear dimension, of each part of the item illustrated;
- the illustration is one-sided; and
- all negatives, plates, positives, digitized storage medium, graphic files, magnetic medium, optical storage devices and any other thing used in the making of the illustration that contain an image of the illustration or any part thereof are destroyed and/or deleted or erased after their final use.
Tags: Design, Interesting, Video
Someone at work told me that if you try to copy money on our Newest High resolution color copier ,that has an integrated fax machine,It would send a fax to the FBI or some other agency . Do you know if that is true? I think it is an urban legend and told him so . Any body know the truth ?
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Well it won’t call home per say. But the copy will be tagged. PLUS, some copiers automagically refuse to copy money. A recognition chip in it notes its money and will refuse to copy. But the one that would get you arrested is the fact that it’d get tagged with an unnoticeable pattern that the Secret Service could use to track down who made it.