AI Summary – Safe & Flagged Tools

AI Summary - Safe & Flagged Tools

The safe AI tools outlined below are approved for use in images submitted into our competitions.

 

Flagged tools are not permitted in our competitions.

 

Photoshop

✅ SAFE TOOLS (No Content Credentials added)

  • All basic adjustments (brightness, contrast, hue/saturation, cropping)
  • Traditional filters and layer operations
  • Spot Healing Brush Tool (content-aware)
  • Clone Stamp Tool
  • Denoise 
  • Adjust Colour 
  • Sky Replacement (replacement sky must be captured by photographer) 
  • Blend 
  • Remove Tool (when set to “Generative AI off”) (Perfect Eraser)
  • Find Distractions (with No AI or Automatic)

 

❌ FLAGGED TOOLS (Content Credentials added) 

  • Generative Image – text-to-image create (firefly.adobe.com)
  • Generative Fill – add or remove content in an image via text prompt
  • Generative Expand – expands the borders with the Crop tool
  • Remove Tool (when set to “Auto” or “Generative AI on”)
  • Remove Background – Generate background
  • Find Distractions (when set to “Auto” or “Generative AI on”)

 

Lightroom

✅ SAFE TOOLS (No Content Credentials added)

  • Basic adjustments (e.g. exposure, highlights, shadows, blacks adjustment) 
  • Brush adjustments
  • Chromatic aberration removal
  • Enhance details
  • Graduated filters
  • Lens blur
  • Noise reduction
  • Post-crop vignetting 
  • Sharpening
  • Generative Remove (without selecting Use Generative AI)

 

❌ FLAGGED TOOLS (Content Credentials added) 

  • Generative Remove (selecting Use Generative AI)
  • Distraction Removal 



Luminar Neo

✅ SAFE TOOLS (No AI-generative features)

Basic Enhancement Features:

  • All standard adjustments (brightness, contrast, hue/saturation, cropping)

  Traditional filters and layer operations

  Enhanced color correction tools

  Brilliance AI tool

  Intelligent depth masking capabilities

AI-Powered Safe Tools:

  • Crop AI (automatic photo composition) 
  • Noise AI (noise reduction)
  • Supersharp AI (refines blurred images)
  • Sky AI (redefine blown out or flat skies)
  • Twilight Enhancer AI (work with blue and gold hour image)
  • Atmosphere AI (adding fog, mist, haze, etc…)
  • Water Enhancer AI (refine and enhance water)
  • Relight AI (total control of light in image)
  • Magic Light AI (adjust multiple light sources)
  • Portrait Bokeh AI (simulate wide open aperture – i.e. 2.0)
  • Face AI (adjust – eyes, nose & mouth)
  • Skin AI (enhance skin tones)
  • Body AI (adjust torso and abdomen

 

❌ FLAGGED TOOLS 

AI-Generative Features:

  • GenErase – Removes unwanted objects and fills in the area with AI-generated content to blend seamlessly 
  • GenSwap – Lets you replace or insert new objects via text prompts and generates corresponding pixels to match the scene 
  • GenExpand – Extends the image dimension with new elements not captured by the photographer

 

ON1 Photo Raw
✅ Competition-Safe Tools
Basic Enhancement Features:

  All standard adjustments (brightness, contrast, hue/saturation, cropping)
   Traditional filters and layer operations
   Enhanced color correction tools
   AI Brilliance tool
   Intelligent depth masking capabilities

AI-Powered Safe Tools:

  • Perfect Eraser (Local mode only – removes dust spots and power lines using existing image data)
  • Generative Crop (Local modes – intelligently crops and straightens using original image content)

 

❌ FLAGGED TOOLS

Cloud-Based AI Generative Features:

  • Generative Eraser with Stability AI – Creates new content to fill removed areas (Distractions – wires, people & vehicles)

Generative Crop with Stability AI – Extends image boundaries with generated content