Related: I've always wanted to get a T-Shirt with the EURion constellation printed all over it and see if there are any notable cases where images of me can't be opened.
Gimp is no where near to be an alternative to photoshop. I understand its an open source and free software, but I would rather prefer someone taking money and polishing the software for human usage.
Affinity suite is much more recommendable.
It offers a lifetime license and is actually a polished and alternate software with most of the feature parity.
Seems like a much better idea is to have some kind of imperceptible "this is forged" symbol on the saved file and anything exported.
Even a dumb criminal could get around this with another photo-editing application. With the latter they'll get caught and not understand how. And legitimate uses like the author's aren't affected.
Nothing new here. If I remember correctly they were doing similar 15 years ago when I was in university.
There was a way around it, although I can't remember the details.
I was doing a project on counterfeiting for a printing assignment and needed to go through the motions.
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Gimp comes to mind.
Some others are listed here: https://methodshop.com/photoshop-money/
I spent so much time installing and compiling Linux that I ended up with a programming career.
I also now use macs.
https://xkcd.com/963/
Even a dumb criminal could get around this with another photo-editing application. With the latter they'll get caught and not understand how. And legitimate uses like the author's aren't affected.
There was a way around it, although I can't remember the details. I was doing a project on counterfeiting for a printing assignment and needed to go through the motions.