no photoshoplifting

BroC writes:

Hi Rob,

I work since 8 years in a graphic studio on weekly free local papers with fifteen other graphic designers.

We scan a lot of pictures each week, from a lot of origins, often already printed, stuffed, reduced and all use thinkable and unthinkable. We must invest generally very bad documents and make them usable in the advertisements. For this work we use Macintosh computers with OS X and different professional software as Adobe Photoshop and Quark XPress. Just one people has always an OS 9 and use and old machine efficient at its level.

This Friday 25 November, G. scans a sad picture of 50 euros Bank note. It was already printed and manipulated, including 3 logotypes of the advertiser. After scan, G. erase dots of the offset weft and to clear and correct colors and clearness. She save the file on our server and give all material to a designer to set advertisement. Designer desires to integrate the money picture with a background and opens the file in Photoshop CS.

The software refuses to open the file and alerts :
This software cannot permit unauthorized treatment of bank notes pictures.
To obtain informations on Internet about these restrictions of copy and distribution of bank notes pictures, clic on Information button underneath or join following adress: www.rulesforuse.org

Scanner, similarly cannot open again its own file with Adobe Photoshop, no more than other designer on their computer. The picture of 50 euros Bank note is now locked to all access.

We arrive to import it in the advertisement but impossible to work directly on it and to modify it again.
Also printing seems no more authorized.

After some research, we discover that effectively Adobe Photoshop CS and CS2 include a detection process of bank note using and prevent it.

Finally we back down the file in Photoshop 7 in OS 9 which soft opens the file currently.

But that is not all. Even after modification on the file and to save as, no way to open it in Photoshop CS and CS2. The stop follows the file and its copies and alterations.

So, we finally find a way of production for the advertisement and following to research information about the restriction of use of bank notes pictures.

Here we are links to 'official' site of CDS, the position of Adobe about its use and also a site discussing this use.
http://www.rulesforuse.org/
http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/cds.html
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,61890,00.html

Best thoughts
BroC

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