Editing Rules for DOMAIN THREE - Creative

 

CREATIVE - Includes the categories of In Camera Effects, Creative Edit and Abstract


Editing Rules for all categories in the Creative domain:

Open Editing – All Categories

 

Permitted:

 

Any in-camera, on-camera and/or post-processing techniques may be used.

 

HDR, focus stacking and in-camera multiple exposure taken at the same location at the same time (as a continuous sequence – seconds or minutes apart) is allowed.

 

Post processing HDR is allowed.

 

Physical lens filters (such as polarizing filters, ND filters etc – any filter that can be attached to a lens) are permitted.

 

Panoramic stitching is permitted.

 

Third party pre-sets, applications, brushes and actions may be used but they cannot include any images or components that are not created by the maker.  

 

Digital Creative Filters either on camera or in post processing are permitted.

 

Digital frame, pin-line, borders, edge effects, discrete borders and mats are permitted provided they do not contain any text.

 

Techniques that add, relocate, clone, replace, or remove pictorial elements are permitted.

 

Combining multiple images and elements or/and compositing to create a final image is permitted but they cannot include any images or components that are not created by the maker.  

 

Images can be converted to monochrome.

 

Infrared images are permitted.

 

Not Permitted

 

Non-photographic components, that identify the maker i.e. signatures, watermarks, etc are not permitted.

 

The image cannot be solely created by a computer application.

 

Any 3rd party preset or application, brushes or processing that includes images or components not created by the maker are not permitted.



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