Manipulating stock photos of currency

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January 30, 2018
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I downloaded a photo of a $100 bill from shutterstock.com with the intention of changing the color and adding layer masks, only to find out that I can't even open it in Photoshop due to counterfeit deterrence measures. When I inquired about this with shutterstock — is there another option, such as just using a portion of the bill? — I was met with no help other than a suggestion to confer with Adobe. Is anyone here familiar with the issue? I'm not stupid — I have no intention of creating my own look-alike bill and the final image will look nothing like a C-note, but I don't know how to follow the rules and still have the starting point I need. Any help is appreciated.

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Terri Stevens

Legend

Very strange. We had a similar question about this last week and I could get the warning message you mention. I just tried again with an Adobe Stock image and it came straight into Photoshop without any problem at all. The peculiar thing about the warning message is if you press the information button it gives conditions for using the image ie you cannot make double sided prints and if you make printing plates they must be destroyed after the print run. It says nowhere that you cannot work with currency images and yet Photoshop provides no way to import the image-well in my case used too Is this a cunning plan to force everyone to Adobe Stock? God I just started a conspiracy theory lol

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kennethpAuthor

Inspiring

Thanks, fellas, but that's a no-go. I copied to the clipboard and pasted into Photoshop, but got the same refusal. I opened in Preview and saved in every format available, but when I tried to open any of them in Photoshop, got the same refusal.

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Test Screen Name

Legend

That's working properly then. To work with currency designs you'll need a different tool, or not do it. The regulations to stay legal are tiresome: Currency Image Use | U.S. Currency Education Program

Mylenium

Legend

As Trevor suggested, use programs that don't have those features built in as a go-between, e.g. copy & pasting from one of the zillions of free image converters/ viewers out there.

Mylenium