In the huge pile of videos posted to Boing Boing in the last post, I found this story about how photoshop stops you scanning in money because of government petitioning. Well US and EU money at least, they didn’t mention the Australian stuff but it could well be included. So even though there’s plenty of legal things you can do with a scanned image of a banknote, it assumes that you’re going to use it for counterfeiting and just bans you from opening it (or printing anything with it in it depending on your version). Blah!

Here’s a workaround in a video podcase from Deke McLelland using Adobe’s Image Ready which “isn’t very smart”. [link, direct link to podcast]. He also links to RulesForUse.org which is a really simple site that tells you what the law is in your country re: reproduction of currency images.

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