20th April, 2008 at 01:49 AM PDT · Filed under Design, Software
Well, apparently as of Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended, 3D models can be imported and videos can be edited. Obviously, as Photoshop is an image manipulation program, it is not exactly the best suited for these tasks. However, if you don’t have the resources to use other programs, then I suppose these features could come in handy. It makes me wonder whether Adobe is running out of enhancements to add though.
The following is a 3D model of a school bus rendered in Photoshop (wireframe mode) and animated into a video. Don’t get too excited now…
I just noticed that RapidShare had implemented a CAPTCHA with cats and dogs (I haven’t been to RapidShare.COM for a while). Their original one wasn’t that hard to break. The new is interesting because it requires a human to recognize the animal that is shown. Computers can’t do that.
But it looks to be still weak. It appears that Rapidshare uses the same image for the cat and dog for every CAPTCHA. It would be easy for a program to find the cat and dog images on the CAPTCHA, extract them, identify them, and remove them from the image so that the text can be very easily OCRed. Maybe if RapidShare distorted the image, used different fonts, added random lines, and used different images for the animals, then they would have a real chance against those automated download programs. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if it already has been broken.
Edit: Well, (unfortunately…) it appears they have now added distortion and blurring… >.>
