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is photoshop cs worth it
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More info for the dude
Some more light reading for Sparky's:
Here's a Miami Herald story on the subject
Here's a Google Groups discussion regarding one person's attempts to test this - notice they were trying it with a $20, which I believe is the most commonly counterfeited denomination of US currency
Here's a Globe and Mail story about the consortium of central banks that pushed this technology
Here's a Wired News story about how the technology is rather too easy to defeat
Some more light reading for Sparky's:
Here's a Miami Herald story on the subject
Here's a Google Groups discussion regarding one person's attempts to test this - notice they were trying it with a $20, which I believe is the most commonly counterfeited denomination of US currency
Here's a Globe and Mail story about the consortium of central banks that pushed this technology
Here's a Wired News story about how the technology is rather too easy to defeat
Sparky's said:
Interesting reading, this thread -- I attempted to scan some money (UK £5) into Photoshop CS yesterday and got the warning. Tried scanning it from another app and opening the TIFF in Pshop, still the same warning...
I was planning on using a Pshopped & distorted version of a banknote to illustrate an article -- I'm going to put Pshop 7 back on the Scanning Mac on Monday to get this done...
bousozoku said:
yup thats a big help sometimes especially if you dont wanna pony up MORE cash for nikons special software
LOL
Counterfeit or w/e people can't scan money... They are afraid of that without realizing they need to spend REAL money for a product close to 1,000 dollars.
AND, CS has the thing where you need to do what Windows XP does kind of and call Adobe for a registration code if that code was already used, so that would not work for counterfeiters...
Counterfeit or w/e people can't scan money... They are afraid of that without realizing they need to spend REAL money for a product close to 1,000 dollars.
AND, CS has the thing where you need to do what Windows XP does kind of and call Adobe for a registration code if that code was already used, so that would not work for counterfeiters...
dotdotdot said:
I don't know how to fully interpret your post but I hope this is a decent rebuttal, tell me if I am wrong. I'm under the impression that your issue is the cost of the software?
The thing is, to a professional who NEEDS this software, the cost of CS is small fry. When a photographer can buy a single camera lens for triple the price or a Graphic designer can buy a 30" monitor for just over double, the cost issue is kinda mute. More so when it is so important, I would consider it the cheapest component of any creative professionals' workflow.
What I'm really hoping for is that with the advent of Core Image, Adobe will finally have some serious competition on it's hands. Smaller companies able to take advantage of the tools that Core Image offers, *will* make a program that does better than any version of Photoshop. I won't say that it'll will do everything better than Photoshop, it will most likely start out as one or two things. But that crack is all there needs to be for the flood to come rushing in.
Suppose for instance you need to do some different burning/dodging effects and PS just can't do it as well as you'd like; well you open up that new freeware dodge/burn program port the image into there, do the work you've always wanted to do, and bam, it's done.
Third party stuff is out there already that does better jobs than PS, take Grain Surgery or Noise Ninja for example. Imagine what could be done with Core Image using just about any other tool. I'm looking forward to instantaneous color/hue/contrast adjustments, using that nice GPU I'm getting.
I don't want to bash Photoshop and say something stupid like "it's terrible at everything", because that would be a lie. Photoshop is an incredible tool, the best out there in fact, and I've been using it for years. I just think that they need competition. They're too expensive (perhaps prohibitively expensive in some cases), and sometimes it feels like they're just being lazy.
Bring on Core Image!
Suppose for instance you need to do some different burning/dodging effects and PS just can't do it as well as you'd like; well you open up that new freeware dodge/burn program port the image into there, do the work you've always wanted to do, and bam, it's done.
Third party stuff is out there already that does better jobs than PS, take Grain Surgery or Noise Ninja for example. Imagine what could be done with Core Image using just about any other tool. I'm looking forward to instantaneous color/hue/contrast adjustments, using that nice GPU I'm getting.
I don't want to bash Photoshop and say something stupid like "it's terrible at everything", because that would be a lie. Photoshop is an incredible tool, the best out there in fact, and I've been using it for years. I just think that they need competition. They're too expensive (perhaps prohibitively expensive in some cases), and sometimes it feels like they're just being lazy.
Bring on Core Image!
Perhaps you had a poor scanner, so when you scanned it, it couldn't recognize the scanned note.jer446 said:
kyle
Oh, this is an educational thread, I did not know you could not scan the money. I understand why they did it, over here in Japan every other day some kid on a scanner is making Yen. Looks like people will have to wait for the next big update and see if a Pro version comes out, wonder if they will eventually take your fingerprints to buy PhotoShop?
Brian
Brian
Eastend said:
Yeah, the people we share our office with next door actually print t-shirts for the Bureau of Printing and engraving and had to get the money images from them after trying to scan it in CS.
jayscheuerle
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CS is worth it for the shadow/highlight adjustment tool alone as far as I'm concerned. YES, it does nothing that can't be done with other tools, but it makes it so much easier and so much faster... No other reasons though.
