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jmowreader
jmowreader
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July 23, 2015
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Photoshop CC won't edit pictures of money, and newspapers need to be able to

  • July 23, 2015
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I work at a newspaper. Sometimes the AP sends us photos with money in them that we want to use in our editions. Photoshop CC has an anti-counterfeiting routine in it that keeps it from opening these pictures. Can a "newspaper" plug-in be created that will let people who legitimately need to edit pictures of money do it?

    Correct answer c.pfaffenbichler

    @Happy Co , this thread was started in 2015, so this is not a »new feature« in Photoshop

    Aside from that I think the issue was raised even earlier over on the now defunct feedback.photoshop.com because the feature has existed in Photoshop CS5 already. (Not sure if it existed even earlier.)

     

    Please read this

    https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/cds.html

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    Just Shoot Me
    Just Shoot Me
    Legend
    July 23, 2015

    I think you are mistaken. I just took a shot of a 50 dollar bill by itself and with other object in the frame. PS CC 2015.1 opens RAW image fine and saves the RAW file as a TIF.

    Trying to open the same images from the JPG I do get a warning but if there are any other object in the frame no such warning and the JPG opens fine.

    So what is the exact reason for your post. If these AP photos have any other subjects, objects, in them PS will open them. It is only images of money itself and only JPGs that PS won't open.

    jmowreader
    jmowreaderAuthor
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    July 23, 2015

    It's happened to me twice. The first time, the picture was of a $10 bill being held with two hands, with the whole bill in the picture. That was about a week ago, and I was thinking "the whole bill is in frame, maybe it just can't see the hands."

    Last night's picture had some other stuff in frame BUT only about a quarter of the bill was in frame. It wouldn't open that picture either. These things arrive as JPG, so "you can do it in Camera Raw" isn't much help.

    melissapiccone
    Community Expert
    melissapicconeCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    July 23, 2015

    You can open a jpg in Camera raw... did you try that?

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      Chuck Uebele
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      Chuck UebeleCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      July 23, 2015

      See this link:

      currency editing

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      Legend
      July 23, 2015

      I doubt it, because it would leave the newspaper and be in the hands of counterfeiters before the morning was over.

        c.pfaffenbichler
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        c.pfaffenbichlerCommunity Expert
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        July 23, 2015

        Work-arounds exist, if I remember correctly on a Mac one can open the files with Preview and save as either psd or tif – one of those would then open in Photoshop.

        Check out this thread:

        Photoshop: Why can't I open pictures of paper currency?

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