AI Statement from PSSA

• For the purposes of all our Competitions, Salons and Honours applications, a photographic image is defined “as being a captured image on a light-sensitive device/surface (e.g. photogram technique, film camera, digital camera, smartphone, tablet, etc…) and recorded on paper, film or in a digital format.”

• An artificial intelligence (AI) generated image is not deemed to be a photographic image because it was created from scratch by the AI system and contains no image captured by the entrant.  Therefore, this type of image will not be accepted into our events.

• Use of AI features (such as: clear, de-noise, masking, sharpening, subject selection, tone adjustments, upsizing image) contained within a post processing application are permitted in our events provided they comply with a categories editing criteria and do not contain any elements which were not captured by the entrant (e.g. element, texture, sky, etc…). AI sky replacement is permitted provided that the new sky was captured by the entrant.  

• All elements must be the original work of the photographer. It is okay to take inspiration from other photographers or artists.  However, if the inspiration contains the same colour, composition, element(s), perspective, angle, subject, and tone of the original then the inspiration is not deemed to be the original work of the photographer.  Another example – A photographer may NOT capture a screen image or photograph an image found on the internet and incorporate it in a composite image that is later submitted into a PSSA event.

• All aspects of the post-processing for their submitted image must be undertaken by the photographer.
• Entrants may be required to provide all supporting images used to prove that all components of the submitted image are their original work and that the image does not contain the elements created or captured by someone else; and as such they hold and will retain the copyright for the image.